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Scaling up Access to Misoprostol at the Community Level to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria [PDF]

, 2014
Over the past decade (2004–2014), the Population and Reproductive Health area of the MacArthur Foundation has focused on supporting projects aimed at reducing maternal mortality.
Ejiro Otive-Igbuzor, Elisa Wells, Esther Azasi, Francine Coeytaux, Jennifer Potts, Sada Danmusa, Senait Tibebu, Takele Geressu, Tarra McNally   +8 more
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Feasibility of assessing the safety and effectiveness of menstrual regulation medications purchased from pharmacies in Bangladesh: a prospective cohort study. [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To assess the feasibility of following up women who purchase mifepristone+misoprostol or misoprostol-only from pharmacies in order to measure the safety and effectiveness of self-administration of menstrual regulation.
Church, Kathryn, Dijkerman, Sally, Footman, Katharine, Nuremowla, Sadid, Reiss, Kate, Scott, Rachel, Taleb, Fahmida   +6 more
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A Pill in the Lifeworld of Women in Burkina Faso: Can Misoprostol Reframe the Meaning of Abortion

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
In Burkina Faso, induced abortion is socially stigmatized, condemned, disapproved and legally restricted to cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation or endangerment to the life of the mother.
Seydou Drabo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Oral misoprostol (PGE1) vs vaginal dinoprostone (PGE2) for labor induction: individual participant data meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials

Ultrasound in Obstetrics &Gynecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the effectiveness and safety of oral misoprostol vs vaginal dinoprostone for the induction of labor (IOL) using an individual participant data (IPD) meta‐analysis. Methods We used a Cochrane review and searched Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Ovid Emcare, CINAHL Plus, Scopus and ClinicalTrials.gov to identify randomized ...
S. Y. Tan, N. Au, M. D. Peel, J. M. Dodd, A. Deussen, P. A. Le Roux, D. C. Young, F. Tessier, P. Dallenbäch, D. M. R. Croll, M. Patabendige, K. Palmer, W. Li, B. W. Mol   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison between clomiphene citrate and letrozole pretreatment with misoprostol versus misoprostol alone for induction of missed abortion in first trimester

SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Missed Abortion is non-viable intrauterine pregnancy with either an empty gestational sac or a gestational sac contains an embryo without fetal heart activity.
Mostafa Mohamed Khodary, Heba Abdelatef Elamin *, Ahmed Hashem Abdellah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Birthing practices of traditional birth attendants in South Asia in the context of training programmes [PDF]

, 2010
Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) training has been an important component of public health policy interventions to improve maternal and child health in developing countries since the 1970s.
Adamson, P., Armstrong, P., Bajpai, S., Bajpai, S., Bajpai, S., Banerjee, A., Banerjee, A., Bhardwaj, N., Bhutta, Z.A., Brown, H., Carpenter, J.P., Chaudhury, N., Chirmulay, D., Dalmiya, V., Das, B.K., Fatmi, Z., Gavin Turrell, Guha, S., Helen Johnson, Hitesh, J., Hota, P.K., Isenalumbe, A.E., Jeffery, R., Jeffery, R., Jennifer Fraser, John, T.J., Kausar, F., Khan, M.E., Khandekar, J., Kitzinger, S., Kumar, R., Lak, D., Lettenmaier, C., Maitra, K., Mashelkar, R.A., Mathews, Z., Mathews, Z., Mesko, N., Misra, R., Nagadeve, D.A., Nandan, D., Nandan, D., Pfitzer, A., Pinto, S., Raina, N., Ram, K., Rodgers, K.A., Saeed Ali, T., Shariff, A., Sheela Saravanan, Smale, M., Smith, D., Smith, D., Smith, D., Sreeramareddy, C.T., Srivastava, S.P., Unnithan, M.K., Van Hollen, C.   +57 more
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Quality medicines in maternal health: results of oxytocin, misoprostol, magnesium sulfate and calcium gluconate quality audits

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018
BackgroundThe high level of maternal mortality and morbidity as a result of complications due to childbirth is unacceptable. The impact of quality medicines in the management of these complications cannot be overemphasized.
C. Anyakora, Yetunde Oni, Uchenna Ezedinachi, A. Adekoya, I. Ali, Charles Nwachukwu, C. Esimone, V. Abiola, Jude I Nwokike   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quality of Medication Abortion Services From Pharmacies and Drugstores in Ethiopia: A Two‐Stage Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the quality of medication abortion (MA) services provided in pharmacies and drugstores (‘pharmaceutical outlets’) in Ethiopia. Design A two‐stage cross‐sectional study. Setting Pharmaceutical outlets in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Tesfaye Tufa, Stephanie Andrea Küng, Delayehu Bekele, Niguse Tadele, Mahari Yihdego, Kidist Lemma, Alice F. Cartwright   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anaphylactic shock to vaginal misoprostol: a rare adverse reaction to a frequently used drug [PDF]

Obstetrics & Gynecology Science, 2018
Misoprostol is widely used in daily practice for induction of labor and cervical dilatation prior to intrauterine procedures, including dilatation and curettage or hysteroscopy.
Hyun Joo Shin, Sa Ra Lee, A-mi Roh, Young-mee Lim, Kyung Ah Jeong, Hye-Sung Moon, Hye Won Chung   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A harm-reduction model of abortion counseling about misoprostol use in Peru with telephone and in-person follow-up: A cohort study

PLoS ONE, 2018
Background In Peru, abortion is legal only to preserve the life and health of the woman. A non-profit clinic system in Peru implemented a harm-reduction model for women with unwanted pregnancy that included pre-abortion care with instructions about ...
D. Grossman, S. Baum, D. Andjelic, Carrie Tatum, Guadalupe Torres, L. Fuentes, J. Friedman   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source