| Description | Part of a larger assessment of maternal-health services undertaken by Ipas Nigeria and the Development Research Projects Center (dRPC), this research report specifically addresses the availability, accessibility and quality of postabortion-care (PAC) services in public-sector hospitals in northern Nigeria's Kano state. As well as outlining achievements regarding the availability of services, providers' training and skills, and the predominance of manual vacuum aspiration, this report makes recommendations for improving the quality of the services by increasing the supply of essential medical equipment, strengthening the quality of infection-prevention protocols and practices, and placing more emphasis on postabortion family-planning counseling and contraceptive-method provision.
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