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Stigma towards women requesting abortion and association with health facility staff facilitation and obstruction of abortion care in South Africa

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2023
BackgroundAbortion stigma has been shown to influence provider attitudes around abortion and may decrease provider willingness to participate in abortion care, or lead some to obstruct care.
Abongile Jim, Makgoale Magwentshu, Jamie Menzel, Stephanie Andrea Küng, Sa-Asa August, Justine van Rooyen, Rumbidzayi Chingwende, Erin Pearson   +7 more
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The economics of abortion and its links with stigma: A secondary analysis from a scoping review on the economics of abortion.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundAlthough abortions are a common aspect of people's reproductive lives, the economic implications of abortion and the stigmas that surround abortion are poorly understood. This article provides an analysis of secondary data from a scoping review
Brittany Moore, Cheri Poss, Ernestina Coast, Samantha R Lattof, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers   +4 more
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‘Stigma R us’: Stigma management at the intersection of abortion care and transgender care in family planning clinics

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022
Rationale: Research shows an increase in the number of family planning clinics, which may or may not provide abortion care, offering transgender healthcare services in the last 10 years. The intersection of LGBTQ health and reproductive health represents
Natalie Ingraham, Lena Hann
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Improving stigma and psychosocial outcomes among post-abortion Kenyan women attending private clinics: A randomized controlled trial of a person-centered mobile phone-based intervention.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to evaluate a person-centered abortion care mobile-based intervention on perceived social stigma, social support, mental health and post-abortion care experiences among Kenyan women who received abortion services
May Sudhinaraset, Amanda Landrian, Sun Yu Cotter, Ginger Golub, James Opot, C Avery Seefeld, Beth Phillips, Edward Ikiugu   +7 more
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Abortion after diagnosis of fetal anomaly: Psychometric properties of a German version of the individual level abortion stigma scale. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundDiagnosis of fetal anomaly is a significant life event and social stigma can negatively impact on the well-being of women opting for an abortion. This study investigated the psychometric properties of a measure of stigma among women who had had
Franz Hanschmidt, Michaela Nagl, Johanna Klingner, Holger Stepan, Anette Kersting   +4 more
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Disclosure to social network members among abortion-seeking women in low- and middle-income countries with restrictive access: a systematic review

Reproductive Health, 2021
Plain Language summary Women seeking an induced abortion in LMICs often face inexistent or inadequate, difficult to find and/ or stigmatizing legal services, leading to the use of informal methods and providers, and unsafe abortions.
Clémentine Rossier, Angela Marchin, Caron Kim, Bela Ganatra   +3 more
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Abortion and contraceptive use stigma: a cross-sectional study of attitudes and beliefs in secondary school students in western Kenya

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019
Social stigma related to women’s reproductive decision-making negatively impacts the health of women. However, little is known about stigmatising attitudes and beliefs surrounding abortion and contraceptive use among adolescents.
Ulrika Rehnström Loi, Beatrice Otieno, Monica Oguttu, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Elisabeth Faxelid, Marlene Makenzius   +6 more
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Esquiver le stigmate lié à l’avortement : le « travail d’invisibilisation » comme renforcement du travail procréatif

Enfances, Familles, Générations, 2021
Research Framework: Given that abortion remains a social stigma, this paper analyzes how women who experiment a first pregnancy termination use invisibilization strategies to avoid stigma.
Laurine Thizy
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Understanding abortion-related stigma and incidence of unsafe abortion: experiences from community members in Machakos and Trans Nzoia counties Kenya

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: the rate of unsafe abortions in Kenya has increased from 32 per 1000 women of reproductive age in 2002 to 48 per 1000 women in 2012. This is one of the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2010, Kenya changed its Constitution to include a more
Erick Kiprotich Yegon, Peter Mwaniki Kabanya, Elizabeth Echoka, Joachim Osur   +3 more
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Interventions to reduce stigma related to contraception and abortion: a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives We conducted a scoping review to identify the types, volume and characteristics of available evidence and analyse the gaps in the knowledge base for evaluated interventions to reduce contraception and abortion stigma.Design We conducted a ...
Annik Sorhaindo, Ulrika Rehnstrom Loi
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