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Balancing autonomy and collaboration: Acompañantes’ perspectives on health system partnerships for medication abortion care in three Mexican states

SSM - Health Systems
Introduction: Acompañantes are feminist activists who accompany pregnant individuals through medication abortions outside of clinical settings. This model is safe, holistic, and destigmatizing.
Laura E. Jacobson, Blair G. Darney, Maribel Campos Muñuzuri, Suzanne Veldhuis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
wiley   +1 more source

Motivations for using misoprostol for abortion outside the formal healthcare system in Colombia: a qualitative study of women seeking postabortion care in Bogotá and the Coffee Axis

Reproductive Health
Background In 2006, a Constitutional Court ruling partially decriminalized abortion in Colombia, allowing the procedure in cases of rape, risk to the health or life of the woman, and fetal malformations incompatible with life.
Juliette Ortiz, Nakeisha Blades, Elena Prada   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Telehealth abortion services via Women on Web in Kenya (2013–2019): a descriptive analysis of the characteristics and motivations of the care seekers

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
In Kenya, access to abortion is legally restricted and allowed under a limited set of conditions. Teleabortion service providers, such as Women on Web (WoW), provide safe and effective abortion care outside the formal health sector.
Mary Achieng Ouma, Anita Alaze, Kenneth Juma, Hazal Atay, Rebecca Gomperts, Céline Miani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acceptability of misoprostol-only medication abortion dispensed by mail-order or retail pharmacy: a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews in the United States

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
The WHO recommends two medication abortion regimens, either misoprostol used with mifepristone or misoprostol-only. Both regimens are recognised as safe and effective, but in the United States (US) most abortions are completed using mifepristone and ...
Dana M. Johnson, Sruthi Ramaswamy, Rebecca Gomperts   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Case series: Kikuchi‐Fujimoto disease with diagnostic overlap

Rheumatology &Autoimmunity, EarlyView.
Kikuchi‐Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare, self‐limiting necrotizing lymphadenitis that poses significant diagnostic challenges due to its overlap with tuberculosis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and malignancy. We present four cases highlighting distinct diagnostic complexities: KFD mimicking tuberculosis with concomitant latent TB infection and ...
Ecem Kalemoglu, Ming Zheng, Danny Arias, Andreina M. Paulino, Aisha Niaz, James Devlin, Valentin Marian   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang, Hao Zhou, Dalin Zhou, Zhaojie Ju   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
We compare two types of situations involving monitoring of car driving: a driving instructor overseeing a trainee driver and a safety driver overseeing the performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) software. Our focus is on instances of monitoring that precede (1) interventions that are aborted before impacting the driving and (2) actual interventions on ...
Mathias Broth, Erik Vinkhuyzen, Jakob Cromdal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons learned from developing and implementing digital health tools for self-managed abortion and sexual and reproductive healthcare in Canada, the United States, and Venezuela. [PDF]

Sex Reprod Health Matters, 2023
Luigi-Bravo G, Maria Ramirez A, Gerdts C, Gill R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Phthalate Metabolite, Mono(2‐Ethyl‐5‐Hydroxyhexyl) Phthalate (MEHHP), Promotes Uterine‐Fibroid–Associated Phenotypes in Myometrial Stem Cell‐Derived 3D Organoids

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how phthalate exposure contributes to uterine fibroid (UF) development by studying the effects of the Mono‐(2‐ethyl‐5‐hydroxyhexyl) phthalate (MEHHP), a metabolite of Di(2‐ethylhexyl) phthalate, on myometrial stem cells (MMSCs).
Somayeh Vafaei, Mervat M. Omran, Qiwei Yang, Sandra Madueke‐Laveaux, Ami R. Zota, Ayman Al‐Hendy, Mohamed Ali   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source