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Trusted Voices, Transforming Norms: Faith and Cultural Champions Take on Childbirth Spacing in Northern Nigeria

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  Healthy childbirth spacing remains one of the most effective strategies for improving maternal and child health outcomes. However, misconceptions, cultural norms, and limited access to accurate information continue to hinder the uptake of childbirth-spacing services in many parts of Nigeria. As part of ongoing efforts to promote healthy childbirth spacing and improve reproductive health […]

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Breaking Myths, Restoring Confidence: One Woman’s Journey with the Hormonal IUD

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In many Nigerian communities, family planning is still weighed down by fear—fear fuelled by myths, half-truths and whispered cautionary tales passed from one woman to another. Stories of infertility, excessive bleeding, weight gain or sudden failure of protection continue to shadow modern contraceptive methods, quietly limiting women’s choices and exposing families to unplanned pregnancies and preventable health

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Stories That Move a Nation, Voices That Deserve to Be Heard

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Long before hashtags and headlines, Nigerians learned who they were through stories. For a generation, Tales by Moonlight was not merely a television programme; it was a communal rite. Families gathered around flickering screens on the old NTA to listen, to imagine, and to absorb values that outlived the night. Storytelling was our first civic education. That inheritance

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Co-Creating Strategies for Shifting Harmful Norms: The FCC Project’s Approach

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As the morning sun spreads across Kaduna, traditional and religious leaders from different faiths and cultural backgrounds gather with a shared purpose: to validate materials that could help shift norms and behaviours detrimental to the health and well-being of adolescent girls and young women in Kano and Kaduna States.  This was more than a routine meeting. It was

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Bridging the Information Gap Within Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare System

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Nigeria’s primary healthcare system is on an upward trajectory, driven by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA)’s ambitious programme to revitalize 17,600 Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities nationwide. So far, more than 1,000 facilities have been fully revitalized and equipped with the infrastructure, commodities, and personnel required to deliver quality, affordable, and accessible healthcare services to Nigerians.  This transformation

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