Available data shows that thousands of women in Sokoto State would prefer to avoid becoming pregnant either right away or space the time period between each pregnancy but are not using any contraception. These women are said to have an “unmet need” for family planning.
Apart from certain overt reasons such as the need for family preservation, misconceptions around contraceptives and religion, covertly, gender inequality sits at the heart of unmet demand for family planning services in Sokoto State. Also, in 2018, 0.20 and 2.3 per cent were using traditional and modern contraceptives respectively in Sokoto State while the national average was 4.6 and 12 per cent for traditional and modern methods of contraception respectively. Again, this indicates that more women were using contraceptives of any type at the national level when compared with Sokoto State.
In fact, low fertility can have dire consequences for women as husbands may cite limited childbearing as an excuse to marry additional women and to divorce their existing wives.
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