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Antibiotics, alcoholic beverages don't prevent pregnancy, —Experts


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Adolescents engage in unprotected sex and other risky sexual behaviours because of some wrong beliefs and impressions about how to prevent unwanted pregnancy. These risky sexual behaviours predispose adolescents to sexually transmitted infections, unsafe abortion and other reproductive health problems.
Oftentimes, misconceptions about the usefulness of condoms and other contraceptives expose many unmarried adolescents to the risk of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Some young people have the misconception that pregnancy could be prevented by the use of hard drugs, laxatives, white chlorine, and boiled alcoholic beverages.
In South-Eastern Nigeria, a study that explored some of the mistaken beliefs about condoms and other methods of preventing pregnancy among adolescents indicated that some still use hard drugs, laxatives, white chlorine and boiled alcoholic beverage as emergency contraceptives. ....

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Smiles for Mothers, FMoH partner to make deliveries safer through human-centered design
DESPITE efforts by successive governments to reduce maternal deaths in the country, the figures continue to rise. Indeed, in recent years, the Federal Government of Nigeria has taken critical steps to improve maternal health outcomes.
According to the National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS 2018), Nigeria continues to bear the highest burden of maternal deaths worldwide, with 19 per cent (58,000) of global maternal deaths occurring in the country every year, and 512 maternal deaths with every 100,000 live births. Within the country, regional disparities exist and reveal high maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) of up to 1,625 and 1,463 deaths per 100,000 live births in northern states such as Kano and Niger respectively; and a MMR of 555 in southern states such as Lagos. ....

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