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 +2 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 +4 more
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022 Globally, people self-manage their medication abortions without clinical assistance. Feminist activist collectives (accompaniment groups) support people through self-managed abortion with evidence-based guidance.
Chiara Bercu +13 more
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The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022 Summary: Background: As access to clinical abortion care becomes increasingly restricted in the United States, the need for self-managed abortions (i.e. abortions taking place outside of the formal healthcare setting) may increase. We examine the safety,
Abigail R.A. Aiken +3 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 MattersThis 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 +7 more
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Ensuring an enabling environment for abortion self-care: individuals’ experiences with self-managed abortion in India [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthIntroduction India was one of the first countries to codify the right to abortion care under specific conditions. Yet an estimated three-quarters of all abortions in India are self-managed medication abortion (SMA).
Ruvani T Jayaweera +9 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 HealthBackground 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 +8 more
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Self-managed abortion as a humanitarian revolution: accounts of a telehealth pilot in the Middle East [PDF]
Conflict and HealthBackground 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 +3 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 MattersIn 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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Frontiers in Digital HealthBackgroundChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot that uses natural language processing to understand and execute prompts in a human-like manner.
Hayley V. McMahon +2 more
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