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Healthcare workers experiences in providing comprehensive abortion care to adolescents in the Eastern region of Ghana: A qualitative study : ¹School of public Health, university of Ghana - Legon, Accra, Ghana. [PDF]

Reprod Health
Globally, less safe or least safe abortion among adolescents remains a public health concern. In Ghana, complications from less safe and least safe abortions result in approximately 43,000 facility-based post-abortion care cases annually, contributing ...
Debuo Der A, Ganle JK.
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Perceived self-efficacy to teach comprehensive abortion care among nursing and midwifery faculty in higher learning institutions in Rwanda: A mixed method study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Introduction Comprehensive abortion care is an emerging intervention being integrated into nursing and midwifery curricula. Yet, no studies have been conducted in Rwanda to determine whether faculty perceive themselves as capable of teaching ...
Nkurunziza A, Habtu M, Mukeshimana M, Endale T, Nsaba Uwera YD, Rutayisire R, Bagirisano J, Hitayezu JBH, Bazakare Ishimwe ML, Uwimana JD.   +9 more
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Women's perceptions of person-centered comprehensive abortion care and associated factors in Northern Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study in a humanitarian setting. [PDF]

Confl Health
Background In humanitarian settings, women and girls face limited access to contraceptives, increasing the risk of unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and related complications.
Amare NS, Seyoum T, Tariku A, Mattison C, Allvin MK.   +4 more
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Women's satisfaction towards comprehensive abortion care and its determinants in Mekelle Health facilities, Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia: a mixed research approach

IMC Journal of Medical Science
Background and objectives: Every year, it is estimated that half a million pregnancies in Ethiopia terminate in abortion. In Ethiopia, unsafe abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal death.
Kibrey Hadush, Mussie Alemayehu, Shishay Wahdey, Dejene Ermias, Sisay Moges   +4 more
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Assessing Readiness to Provide Comprehensive Abortion Care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo After Passage of the Maputo Protocol. [PDF]

Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health, 2020
CONTEXT The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decriminalized abortion under certain circumstances in 2018 through the Maputo Protocol. However, little is known about the readiness of the country's health facilities to provide comprehensive abortion ...
Glover AL, Kayembe P, Kaba D, Babakazo P.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Midwifery tutors' capacity and willingness to teach contraception, post-abortion care, and legal pregnancy termination in Ghana [PDF]

Human Resources for Health, 2010
Background Ghana has a high maternal mortality rate of 540 per 100 000. Although abortion complications usually are treatable, the risks of morbidity and death increase when treatment is delayed.
Mitchell Ellen, Mills Joseph, Yellu Nathaniel, Voetagbe Gertrude, Adu-Amankwah Amanda, Jehu-Appiah Koma, Nyante Felix   +6 more
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Co-creation to scale up provision of simplified high-quality comprehensive abortion care in East Central and Southern Africa. [PDF]

Glob Health Action, 2018
Universal access to comprehensive abortion care (CAC) is a reproductive right and is essential to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. In East Africa, abortion rates are consistently high, and the vast majority of all abortions are unsafe,
Klingberg-Allvin M, Atuhairwe S, Cleeve A, Byamugisha JK, Larsson EC, Makenzius M, Oguttu M, Gemzell-Danielsson K.   +7 more
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Analysing the context and characteristics of legal abortion and comprehensive post-abortion care among adolescents aged 10–14 in a network of sentinel centres in Latin America: a retrospective cross-sectional study, 2016–2020

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
Pregnancy-related complications are a substantial source of morbidity and mortality among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. While the youngest adolescents (those aged 10–14) are considered to be at particularly high risk of adverse ...
Caitlin R. Williams, M. Valeria Bahamondes, Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de León, Helymar da Costa Machado, Luis Bahamondes, Sonja Caffe, Suzanne Jacob Serruya   +6 more
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Intervening factors in health care professionals’ attitudes and behaviours towards comprehensive abortion care in the workplace: a comparative case study of Tanzania and Ethiopia

The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 2022
Purpose Health care professionals’ attitudes and behaviours play a fundamental role in the provision of timely comprehensive abortion care as a maternal health intervention and save hundreds of thousands of women’s lives, annually.
Dennis Munetsi, William J Ugarte
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Understanding social work’s role in abortion care: A comprehensive scoping review

PLOS ONE
Background Social workers have played a crucial role in abortion care for decades, addressing clients’ diverse abortion care needs. Social workers have ethical duties to provide unimpeded access to information and supports to clients, in pursuit of ...
Preetika Sharma, Julie L Halverson, Yoonhee Lee, Sarmitha Sivakumaran, Cam Bautista, H. Seiyad, A. Arhinson, Temulun Bagen, Gaja Ananthathurai, Stephanie Begun   +9 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources