This survey about the rate of abortion in Nigeria was
carried out in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Nasarawa, Anambra and Taraba.
A survey conducted by the Performance Monitoring and
Accountability (PMA2020) in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation has shown that Nigerian women committed 1.8 million abortions in
2017.
Presenting the results of the survey on Thursday, Suzanne
Bell, a scientist at John Hopkins School of Public Health, said a majority of
the abortions were done by young girls in secondary schools and women in their
early 20s.
The survey was carried out in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Rivers,
Nasarawa, Anambra and Taraba.
“In 2018, PMA 2020 conducted a survey to produce updated and
expanded estimates of abortion-related indicators.
“The survey results provided new insights into the
characteristics of women who have abortions and the pathways leading to
abortion within or outside the healthcare system.
“In Nigeria, most public tertiary facilities provided
post-abortion care (92 per cent) and safe abortion services to save a woman’s
life (81 per cent); lower level public facilities and private facilities were
much less likely to do so.
“In 2017, the annual incidence of likely abortions in
Nigeria was 41.8 per cent per 1000 women aged, 15 to 49, which is nearly 1.8
million abortions.
“When including information related to the experience of
respondents closest confidants, the rate of likely abortions in Nigeria rose to
2.7 million.”
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