{"id":191572,"date":"2025-02-16T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kanos-family-planning-strategy-sets-a-national-example\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:50:52","slug":"nigeria-kanos-family-planning-strategy-sets-a-national-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kanos-family-planning-strategy-sets-a-national-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kano&#8217;s Family Planning Strategy Sets a National Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Kano State has taken a significant step towards improving the health and well-being of its residents with the launch of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/kano-forging-a-path-towards-sustainable-family-planning-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Planning Strategic Plan<\/a> in December 2024. This strategic plan addresses critical reproductive health challenges, including high fertility rates, maternal and child health issues, and the unmet need for family planning services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Kano has one of Nigeria&#8217;s highest total fertility rates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnch2.com\/kano-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at approximately 6.8%<\/a>. It is experiencing rapid population growth, with an estimated <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502160057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kano State has taken a significant step towards improving the health and well-being of its residents with the launch of a new Family Planning Strategic Plan in December 2024. This strategic plan addresses critical reproductive health challenges, including high fertility rates, maternal and child health issues, and the unmet need for family planning services. Kano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610737:b37d0812e5197bba35bc5e2baa79912f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5203,50646,6687,257,4687,393,8471,7123,254,6986],"class_list":["post-191572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-family","tag-kanos","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-planning","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610737:b37d0812e5197bba35bc5e2baa79912f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}