According to VANGUARD, Dr Salma Anas said, ”With respect to the health of the family which is reproductive maternal, newborn and child health including the health of the elderly, we have made a very important progress in the aspect of elimination of children genital mutilation.
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“Children genital mutilation still remains a problem in Nigeria. Globally, there are over 200 million people that are affected in living with it today, that is women and girls. Out of this, we still have over two million that are at risk of female genital mutilation in Nigeria. So we continue to partner since the launch of partnership on women, girls, adolescents, and the elderly by the Minister of Health two years ago.
“So we continue to leverage partnership across the country. Part of the partnership we had recently is the elimination of female genital mutilation with the United Nations. This was implemented in five states that have the highest rate of female genital mutilation in Nigeria.
“These states are Ebonyi, Imo, Oyo, Ekiti, and Osun. It was aimed at awareness creation on the hazard of female genital mutilation in Nigeria and also ways to reduce the practices and also inclusion of female genital mutilation indicators into the National Health Management Information System.
“Achievements were made and part of the major achievements we made were targeted at young girls. Over 3,700 girls were saved from female genital mutilation as a result of the awareness campaign that took place in five of these states.Jamb Result
“And we have also been able to train over 730,000 men and religious leaders including traditional leaders on the negative impact of female genital mutilation.”
She added that”The boys are also not left behind. Over 800 boys were also sensitized and trained so that they can work together as partners to protect their sisters from such criminal practices that happen in our respective communities.”
“The project will also scale up to other parts of Nigeria, especially the northern parts. Jigawa and Kaduna states have been identified to scale up the project where the awareness will continue to be created until we are able to totally eliminate female genital mutilation.
”We call on all Nigerians to be aware that this is silently happening in communities and we all have the responsibility to protect our women, especially the girls that are victims because it has its negative complications on the health of girls, not only physical but also psychological trauma.”
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