Jigawa state governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has appealed to policy makers and planners to use results from National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) to cutail the rate of STI, HIV and AIDS prevalence in the state.
Badaru who stated this at the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Data Dissemination report held in Dutse emphasised that “this report can also be used for planning purposes in our Ministries, Departments and other relevant agencies in the state.”
Also speaking to our correspondent after the meeting, Dr Ismail Lawal Suleiman in charged of Kano and Jigawa state said the meeting meant to reveal the out come of the Survey of 2018.
According to him “the result of the Survey shows a number of significant outcome, two percent of women and two percent of men ages 15 and above have difficulty or cannot function in at least one domain of disability.
“Such as seeing, hearing, communicating, remembering or concentrating, walking or climbing steps, and washing all over the body or dressing up, 9 percent women and 10 percent men have some difficulties in at least one domain or the other”, he stressed.
Adding that the data on disability will be of significance to the social development statistics in planning for the wellbeing of persons living with disabilities in the society especially in the north west zone.”
