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Home 9 Search Results Indonesia has a great unmet need for sexual and reproductive health services and information, and unsafe abortion is believed to cause approximately 30% of maternal deaths in the country. Abortion is only legal under limited …
Yukti Yojana – A Public Private Partnership for Expanding Availability of Safe Abortion Services in Bihar, featured in the compendium of successful projects in the field of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health that was launched in a conference ‘Sharing of Best Practices: Improving Maternal, New Born and Child Health in India’. The conference was jointly organised by FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre of Excellence and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals’ CSR arm Glenmark Foundation on March 28, 2018 in New Delhi.
Home 9 Search Results India has one of Asia’s broadest abortion laws. Abortions may be performed by a registered physician in a government-approved hospital or facility during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. However, in this sprawling country of …
This policy brief has been developed in consultation with experts in India after a careful review of the Indian context and mapping it with the WHO Guidelines on ‘Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception’ released in 2015. The policy brief highlights legal and policy recommendations for strengthening women’s access to comprehensive abortion care in India.
Home 9 Search Results Menstrual regulation (as abortion is known in Bangladesh) is legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. But despite this legal service, unsafe abortion does occur—particularly in rural parts of the country. The Rohingya humani …
Home 9 Search Results Although abortion is legal in Zambia, the barriers to accessing safe abortion care are formidable. Doctors are in short supply, and there is a strong and persistent social stigma surrounding abortion. Very few women know they …
This reference guide provides information and recommendations based on evidence for dilatation and evacuation (D&E), a form of abortion that utilizes a combination of specialized forceps and vacuum aspiration to evacuate the uterus at or after 13 weeks gestation, for women who need either induced abortion, treatment of incomplete abortion or postabortion care.
Home 9 Search Results Abortion has been legal in South Africa since the enactment of the 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act. But unsafe abortion is prevalent and particularly impacts poor women and girls and those who live in rural areas. …
Home 9 Search Results Maryam Umar (right) leads an peer education discussion on the use of contraceptives and safe abortion. Unsafe abortion is one of the most significant and preventable causes of maternal death and injury in Nigeria, which has o …
Home 9 Search Results In 2014, with the goal of reducing maternal deaths, Mozambique liberalized its abortion law to greatly broaden women’s access to safe abortion care. Women in Mozambique now have the right to a legal abortion upon request duri …
Home 9 Search Results Malawi’s abortion law is one of the most restrictive in Africa, as it only permits termination of pregnancy to save a woman’s life. This leads many women and girls to end unwanted pregnancies in unsafe, clandestine settings. …
Home 9 Search Results There are more than 1.8 million unsafe abortions in West Africa each year. An assessment of abortion care needs and opportunities in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa conducted in 2015 found there is “a vast unmet need” for comp …
Home 9 Search Results After liberalizing Ethiopia’s abortion law in 2005, the government implemented programs to train health-care providers, equip facilities and expand the services they offer—and integrate abortion care into broader reproductive …
In Kenya, unsafe abortion has long been recognized as a leading cause of death and injury for women. Under the new Kenyan constitution, abortion is legal under certain circumstances, but many providers have still not been trained in safe abortion care, and women continue to seek unsafe procedures and suffer complications. In neighboring Uganda, abortion-related causes account for 26 percent of maternal deaths, and most women who have abortions undergo unsafe procedures.
This reference guide provides information and recommendations based on evidence for medical abortion at or after 13 weeks gestation, sometimes called induction abortion or termination in the second trimester, using misoprostol-based regimens (mifepristone plus misoprostol or misoprostol only) for women who need either induced abortion, treatment of incomplete abortion or postabortion care.
Recursos para profissionais de saúde No nosso trabalho contínuo para formar profissionais de saúde e apoiar sistemas de saúde na prestação de serviços de aborto, temos criado muitos recursos, ferramentas e auxiliares de trabalho para profissionais clín …
Ressources pour les professionnels de la santé Dans le cadre de notre travail continu pour former des professionnels de la santé et aider les systèmes de santé à fournir des soins d’avortement, nous avons développé nombre de ressources, d’outils et de …
Recursos de capacitación Hemos creado materiales de capacitación en los servicios de aborto para satisfacer las diversas necesidades de los sistemas de salud y los contextos en los que trabajan. Si tiene preguntas, retroalimentación o consultas sobre c …
A calculadora de AMIU é uma ferramenta para os gestores de aquisições e distribuidores das unidades sanitárias que calculam o número de aspiradores de aspiração manual intra-uterina (AMIU) que deve ser mantido em stock nas unidades sanitárias. Ao usar dados das unidades sanitárias, a calculadora de AMIU estimará a quantidade apropriada de aspiradores Ipas AMIU Plus® e Válvula Simples para satisfazer a demanda. A calculadora usa uma metodologia de previsão baseada em estatísticas e desenvolvida por John Snow, Inc., de acordo com o número médio de casos e factor de reuso de instrumentos Ipas AMIU de 25.
Le calculateur d’AMIU est destiné aux distributeurs et responsables de l’approvisionnement des institutions de santé qui doivent calculer le nombre d’aspirateurs manuels intra-utérins (AMIU) qu’il est nécessaire de conserver en stock dans chaque institution de santé. En fonction des données de l’institution, le calculateur d’AMIU d’Ipas estimera les quantités appropriées d’aspirateurs Ipas AMIU Plus et d’aspirateurs à valve unique correspondant au volume de travail. Il utilise une méthode de prévision statistique développée par John Snow, Inc., fondée sur un volume de travail quotidien moyen, et un facteur de réutilisation des instruments d’AMIU de 25.