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Prevalence of Induced Abortion and Associated Factors among Wachamo University Regular Female Students, Southern Ethiopia, 2015. [PDF]

, 2016
Background: All over the world, women experience unwanted pregnancy and some of them seek to terminate the pregnancy and undergo induced abortion. In Ethiopia, abortion is still common and it is one of the contributing factors for maternal death. In 2008
Mitiku, Shimelis
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Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia. [PDF]

, 2018
Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced
Abelson, Anna, Anderson, Ragnar, Bankole, Akinrinola, Dennis, Mardieh, Greco, Giulia, Moore, Ann M, Vwalika, Bellington   +6 more
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Incidence of Induced Abortion and Post-Abortion Care in Tanzania

PLOS ONE, 2015
Tanzania has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world, and unsafe abortion is one of its leading causes. Yet little is known about its incidence.To provide the first ever estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion in Tanzania, at the national level and for each of the 8 geopolitical zones (7 in Mainland plus Zanzibar).A nationally ...
Keogh, Sarah C, Kimaro, Godfather, Muganyizi, Projestine, Philbin, Jesse, Kahwa, Amos, Ngadaya, Esther, Bankole, Akinrinola   +6 more
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Severity of effect considerations regarding the use of mutation as a toxicological endpoint for risk assessment: A report from the 8th International Workshop on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT)

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure levels without appreciable human health risk may be determined by dividing a point of departure on a dose–response curve (e.g., benchmark dose) by a composite adjustment factor (AF). An “effect severity” AF (ESAF) is employed in some regulatory contexts.
Barbara L. Parsons, Marc A. Beal, Kerry L. Dearfield, George R. Douglas, Min Gi, B. Bhaskar Gollapudi, Robert H. Heflich, Katsuyoshi Horibata, Michelle Kenyon, Alexandra S. Long, David P. Lovell, Anthony M. Lynch, Meagan B. Myers, Stefan Pfuhler, Alisa Vespa, Andreas Zeller, George E. Johnson, Paul A. White   +17 more
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Induced abortion potential among Indian women [PDF]

Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate especially in the developing world, which has led to several speculations on the prevalence of abortion in this region. A rise in prevalence of abortion is mostly accounted for in terms of increase in the
Mala Ramanathan, S. Irudaya Rajan, U.S. Mishra   +2 more
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Disclosure, Contraceptive Practices, Reproductive Desires and Outcomes of Abortion, at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Globally, abortion mortality accounts for at least 13% of all maternal mortality. Unsafe abortion procedures, untrained abortion providers, restrictive abortion laws and high mortality and morbidity from abortion tend to occur together ...
Andrew, Chakura, Innoncent, Nkonwa, Joseph, Njagi, Musa, Mubiru, Ngonzi, Joseph, Ronald, Mayanja, Sezalio, Masembe   +6 more
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Policy entrepreneurship for transformative governance

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholarship is growing on societal transitions, describing radical societal change involving multiple sectors and scales, and transformative governance, describing how public, private, and civil society actors use tools of policy to pursue this fundamental change, aiming to build resiliency and sustainability.
Gwen Arnold, Sara Ludwick, S. Mohsen Fatemi, Rachel Krause, Le Anh Nguyen Long   +4 more
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Post abortion family planning counseling as a tool to increase contraception use [PDF]

, 2009
Background To describe the impact of the post-abortion family planning counseling in bringing about the contraceptive usage in women who had induced abortion in a family planning clinic. Method The Diyarbakir Office of Turkish Family Planning Association
A Akin, A Augustine, A El-Tagy, A Langer, AI Bozkurt, Ali Ceylan, BR Johnson, C Misago, D Shapiro, D Uygur, DW Geelhoed, Gunay Saka, International Conference on Population and Development, J Herndon, J Thomas, Meliksah Ertem, Nurten Akdeniz, O Karabacak, OI Odeyowu, R Sullivan, S Ozgur, S Ozgur, T Unalan, UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organization/Division of Reproductive Health   +24 more
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Efficacy of naloxone in reducing hypoxemia and duration of immobility following focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Evaluating the efficacy of an opioid antagonist, naloxone (NLX), to reduce the severity of post‐ictal hypoxemia and immobility after focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures (FBTCS). Methods ENALEPSY is a double‐blind placebo (PCB)‐controlled trial conducted in patients with focal epilepsy undergoing long‐term video‐EEG monitoring ...
Sylvain Rheims, Fatima Chorfa, Véronique Michel, Edouard Hirsch, Louis Maillard, Luc Valton, Fabrice Bartolomei, Philippe Derambure, Vincent Navarro, Julien Biberon, Arielle Crespel, Anca Nica, Martine Lemesle Martin, Laure Mazzola, Jerome Petit, Vincent Rossero, Sébastien Boulogne, Mathilde Leclercq, Laurent Bezin, Catherine Mercier, Pascal Roy, Philippe Ryvlin, on behalf of the ENALEPSY Study Group, V. Michel, M. De Montaudouin, M. Lemesle Martin, P. Kahane, L. Minotti, L. Vercueil, A. S. Jobst, J. Petit, D. Tourniaire, V. Eid, P. Latour, P. Derambure, W. Szurhaj, S. Rheims, H. Catenoix, N. Andre‐Obadia, J. Isnard, A. Montavont, S. Boulogne, F. Bartolomei, A. Trébuchon, A. Mc Gonigal, S. Aubert, S. Lagarde, A. Crespel, P. Gelisse, B. Mercedes, L. Maillard, L. Tyvaert, J. P. Vignal, V. Navarro, S. Dupont, C. Adam, V. Frazzini, V.‐H. Nguyen‐Michel, M. Damiano, V. Lambrecq, A. Biraben, A. Nica, P. Convers, L. Mazzola, E. Hirsch, M. P. Valenti, J. Scholly, C. Behr, L. Valton, M. Denuelle, J. Curot, J. Biberon   +71 more
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Who Owns a Woman\u27s Body? [PDF]

, 2013
In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper. Every hour, approximately eight women around the world die as a result of complications from unsafe induced abortions.
Tuthill, Karyssa
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