The Niger State Government has decried the paucity of data to aid research in health conditions affecting women. It urged health-related agencies and the federal government to deploy resources as well as funds to build up a database to enhance research into the health conditions of the black woman. The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Murtala Bagana, made this known during a stakeholders’ engagement and media interaction on the need to prioritise women’s menstrual and reproductive health through evidence-based research and policy leadership put together by Youterus Health in collaboration with White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria In a chat with newsmen, Bagana lamented what he termed “years of inadequate attention to women’s health by policymakers and government institutions”, and stressed...