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Stop Stigmatising Infertile Women - Aisha Buhari Tells Africans

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First Lady Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has called on Africans to change their views on women’s infertility and also desist from attaching a stigma to infertile women.

 

She made the call during a high-level panel discussion of African First Ladies on the challenges of ” Building Healthcare Capacity ” in the African Continent held in Accra, Ghana.

 

” I want to use this opportunity to call on African societies to desist from the mindset which tends to see Women’s infertility as an abnormal condition. And the associated stigmatization and abuse that usually characterize such situation that is capable of being addressed through medical healthcare and modern science,” she said.

 

According to the First Lady;”The Aisha Buhari Foundation had specifically identified and empowered more than 200 infertile Women within this period in addition to offering them medical treatment for fertility and providing them with counselling. We have since built and donated two functional Women Hospitals to two out of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones with the plans to reach the remaining four geopolitical zones soon”

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