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Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Malawian Women. 满足马拉维妇女避孕需要的好处。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2014-01-01

Michael Vlassoff, Maxton Tsoka

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Benefits of meeting the contraceptive needs of Cameroonian women. 满足喀麦隆妇女避孕需求的好处。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2014-01-01

Michael Vlassoff, Jenna Jerman, G Beninguisse, Floriane Kamgaing, F Zinvi-Dossou

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Adolescents in Zimbabwe. 津巴布韦青少年的性健康和生殖健康需求。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2014-01-01

Lisa Remez, Vanessa Woog, Marvelous Mhloyi

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Postabortion care in Pakistan. 巴基斯坦的堕胎后护理。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2013-08-01

Zeba Sathar, Gul Rashida, Zakir Shah, Susheela Singh, Vanessa Woog

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Unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion in the Philippines: context and consequences. 菲律宾的意外怀孕和不安全堕胎:背景和后果。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2013-04-01

Rubina Hussain, Lawrence B Finer

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Unsafe abortion in Tanzania: a review of the evidence. 坦桑尼亚的不安全堕胎:证据综述。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2013-02-01

Vanessa Woog, Andrea B Pembe

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Unintended pregnancy and abortion in Uganda. 乌干达的意外怀孕和堕胎。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2013-01-01

Rubina Hussain

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Menstrual regulation, unsafe abortion, and maternal health in Bangladesh. 孟加拉国的月经调节、不安全堕胎和产妇保健。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2012-09-01

Atlaf Hossain, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Susheela Singh, Lisa Remez

{"title":"Menstrual regulation, unsafe abortion, and maternal health in Bangladesh.","authors":"Atlaf Hossain, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Susheela Singh, Lisa Remez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"Maternal mortality has declined considerably in Bangladesh over the past few decades. Some of that decline--though precisely how much cannot be quantified--is likely attributable to the country's menstrual regulation program,which allows women to establish nonpregnancy safely after a missed period and thus avoid recourse to unsafe abortion. Key Points. (1) Unsafe clandestine abortion persists in Bangladesh. In 2010, some 231,000 led to complications that were treated at health facilities, but another 341,000 cases were not. In all, 572,000 unsafe procedures led to complications that year. (2) Recourse to unsafe abortion can be avoided by use of the safe, government sanctioned service of menstrual regulation (MR)--establishing nonpregnancy after a missed period, most often using manual vacuum aspiration. In 2010, an estimated 653,000 women obtained MRs, a rate of 18 per 1,000 women of reproductive age. (3) The rate at which MRs result in complications that are treated in facilities is one-third that of the complications of induced abortions--120 per 1,000 MRs vs. 357 per 1,000 induced abortions. (4) There is room for improvement in MR service provision, however. In 2010, 43% of the facilities that could potentially offer it did not. Moreover, one-third of rural primary health care facilities did not provide the service. These are staffed by Family Welfare Visitors, recognized to be the backbone of the MR program. In addition, one-quarter of all MR clients were denied the procedure. (5) To assure that trends toward lower abortion-related morbidity and mortality continue, women need expanded access to the means of averting unsafe abortion. To that end, the government needs to address barriers to widespread, safe MR services, including women's limited knowledge of their availability, the reasons why facilities do not provide MRs or reject women who seek one, and the often poor quality of care.","PeriodicalId":83755,"journal":{"name":"Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute)","volume":" 3","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31053320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Abortion and unintended pregnancy in Kenya. 肯尼亚的堕胎和意外怀孕。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2012-05-01

Rubina Hussain

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Making abortion services accessible in the wake of legal reforms. 在法律改革之后提供堕胎服务。

Issues in brief (Alan Guttmacher Institute) Pub Date : 2012-04-01

Lori Ashford, Gilda Sedgh, Sushella Singh

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