I was reading this news brief and saw
something towards the bottom – 58% of Nigerian Women over 15 have HIV.
How’s that even possible?! And where the hell did they get that kind of
information.
ABUJA, Nigeria, May 19 (Thomson Reuters
Foundation) – The rescue of one of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls
abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram from a secondary school in
Chibok in northeastern Nigeria two years has thrown global attention
onto Amina Ali.
But what is known about the girl who was
found two days ago near Damboa in Nigeria’s northeast with a
four-month-old daughter and a suspected Boko Haram fighter claiming to
be her husband?
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed at a
news conference on Thursday that Ali would continue her education and
condemned the brutality of forced marriage.
Here are some facts about Ali, the first
of the missing girls to be found, and about the health, education and
rights of girls in Nigeria:
* Amina Ali was one of 13 children in her family of whom only three survived (Source: The Murtala Muhammed Foundation)
* Women on average give birth to six children (source: World Bank)
* 117 children from every 1,000 live births die under the age of five (source: UNICEF)
* Ali is one of 219 schoolgirls missing
since April 2014 when they were kidnapped from a secondary school at
Chibok by Boko Haram militants
* The female secondary school net
attendance rate is only 29 percent in Borno state in northeast Nigeria
compared to a national average of 53 percent (source: www.epdc.org)
* She was found with a four-month-old daughter
* About 43 percent of women aged 20 to 24 years are first married or in union by age 18 (source: UNICEF)
* Nigeria has one of the world’s highest
maternal mortality rates with women dying in 814 of every 100,000 live
birth (source: World Bank)
* Around 40,000 pregnant women died in Nigeria in 2013, according to the World Health Organisation
* A survey of 15-24 year-old women found
the majority think it is reasonable for husbands to beat their wives if
they burn food, refuse sex or go out without his permission (www.gov.uk)
* 58 percent of Nigerian women aged over 15 have HIV
* 58 percent of Nigerian women aged over 15 have HIV
* Life expectancy for a woman at birth in Nigeria is 53 (source: World Bank)
(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing
by Ros Russell.; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the
charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news,
women’s rights, trafficking, property rights and climate change.
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