The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has disclosed that approximately 100,000 children die from diarrhoea in Nigeria annually. USAID Chief of Party, Dr. Ayodele Iroko, made this known at the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector, SHOPS, project in Makurdi.She said: “SHOPS project is USAID’s flagship initiative in private sector health, which had also offered training to private sector doctors, nurses, midwives and community pharmacists in six target states. “SHOPS project focuses on increasing availability, improving quality, and expanding coverage of essential health products and services in family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and other areas through the private sector.”
She said over 12,000 Benue women had also been trained on birth control techniques and use of active, irreversible contraceptives.
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