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Self-Managed Abortion in Africa: The Decriminalization Imperative in Regional Human Rights Standards [PDF]

Health and Human Rights, 2023
Self-managed abortion holds particular promise for revolutionizing people’s access to quality reproductive care in Africa, where the burden of abortion-related mortality is the highest globally and where abortion remains criminalized, in violation of ...
Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Michelle Maziwisa, Ebenezer Durojaye   +2 more
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A cross-sectional study examining consideration of self-managed abortion among people seeking facility-based care in the United States [PDF]

Reproductive Health, 2022
Introduction With increasing restrictions on abortion across the United States, we sought to understand whether people seeking abortion would consider ending their pregnancy on their own if unable to access a facility-based abortion. Methods From January
Lauren Ralph, Katherine Ehrenreich, Shelly Kaller, M. Antonia Biggs   +3 more
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Self-managed medication abortion outcomes: results from a prospective pilot study [PDF]

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background To evaluate the feasibility of conducting a prospective study to measure self-managed medication abortion outcomes, and to collect preliminary data on safety and effectiveness of self-managed medication abortion, we recruited callers to ...
Heidi Moseson, Ruvani Jayaweera, Sarah Raifman, Brianna Keefe-Oates, Sofia Filippa, Relebohile Motana, Ijeoma Egwuatu, Belen Grosso, Ika Kristianingrum, Sybil Nmezi, Ruth Zurbriggen, Caitlin Gerdts   +11 more
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Reducing underreporting of stigmatized pregnancy outcomes: results from a mixed-methods study of self-managed abortion in Texas using the list-experiment method [PDF]

BMC Women's Health, 2019
Background Accurately measuring stigmatized experiences is a challenge across reproductive health research. In this study, we tested a novel method – the list experiment – that aims to reduce underreporting of sensitive events by asking participants to ...
Heidi Moseson, Sofia Filippa, Sarah E. Baum, Caitlin Gerdts, Daniel Grossman   +4 more
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Increasing access to self-managed abortion through pharmacies: programmatic results and lessons from a pilot program in Oromia, Ethiopia [PDF]

Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Despite increased availability of safe abortion following legal reform in Ethiopia, one-half of public sector abortion services are treatment of postabortion complications, indicating challenges meeting women's needs.
Bekalu Mossie Chekol, Abiyot Belai Mehari, Blain Rezene, Samuel Muluye, Yadeta Ayana, Elsabet Sisay, Sally Dijkerman, Genene Assefa   +7 more
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Supporting self-managed abortion care in “practice not premise”: a qualitative study of provider perspectives, roles, and information pathways to care in India* [PDF]

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
This qualitative study explored provider perspectives on self-managed abortion (SMA) in India, their roles, and how they share information about pathways to both clinician- and self-managed abortion care. We conducted 33 semi-structured interviews with a
Laura E. Jacobson, Caila Brander, Balasubramanian Palanisamy, Sruthi Chandrasekaran, Blair G. Darney, Julia M. Goodman, Ruvani Jayaweera, Caitlin Gerdts   +7 more
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Understanding the support needs and preferences of people who self-managed abortion with accompaniment group support in Argentina, Nigeria, and Southeast Asia: a prospective, observational cohort study [PDF]

Reproductive Health
Background Increasingly, people use medication abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own, without clinical supervision–a practice known as self-managed abortion (SMA).
Marissa Velarde, Ruvani Jayaweera, Ijeoma Egwuatu, Sybil Nmezi, Ruth Zurbriggen, Belén Grosso, Ika Ayu Kristianingrum, Chiara Bercu, Heidi Moseson   +8 more
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Hegemonic medicine and self-managed abortion: reclaiming Latin American feminists’ contributions to knowledge and practice development [PDF]

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
In this commentary, we challenge the narrative that presents self-managed medication abortion (SMA) as a recent "discovery" of Western biomedicine. Drawing on our lived experience and a literature review, we compare how different key concepts – autonomy,
Sara Larrea, Suzanne Veldhuis
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Self-managed abortion as a humanitarian revolution: accounts of a telehealth pilot in the Middle East [PDF]

Conflict and Health
Background Access to safe abortion care (SAC) should be improved in fragile and humanitarian settings, and the implementation of interventions in that regard are currently limited.
Laureline Lasserre, Nelly Staderini, Maysa’a Hasan, Vanessa Rossi   +3 more
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Self-managed abortion: Toxic legislation, non-toxic medication. [PDF]

Am J Emerg Med, 2023
Fay KE, Alemu H, Perritt J.
europepmc   +3 more sources