Margaret Giorgio

Datos Biográficos

ID4198028
NOMBREMargaret Giorgio
NOMBRESMargaret
APELLIDOGiorgio
FIRMAGIORGIO M
AFILIACIONESGuttmacher Institute
ORCID0000-0003-0006-9465
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS19
TOTAL DE CITAS12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR19
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Availability and readiness to provide postabortion care in refugee settlements in Uganda

    Open AccessBonnie Wandera, Stephanie Küng et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Unsafe abortions contribute to 10% of preventable maternal deaths in Africa, with higher rates in humanitarian settings. In Uganda, home to 1.8 million refugees, women and girls face heightened vulnerabilities, increasing their risk of unsafe abortions. This study assessed the availability and readiness of health facilities serving Uganda's refugee settlements to provide postabortion care (PAC), identifying gaps and opportunities fo…

  • Severity and management of postabortion complications in Kenya

    Open AccessMargaret Giorgio, Kenneth Juma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Complications from induced abortion are an avoidable cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. A nationally representative 2012 study estimated that 37% of postabortion care patients in Kenya experienced severe complications. This study provides updated estimates of postabortion complication management and severity in Kenya. METHODS: Data were collected on 4666 postabortion care cases in a nationally representative sample of health…

  • Estimating abortion incidence and unintended pregnancy among adolescents living in refugee settlements in Uganda

    Open AccessStephanie Küng, Stephanie Andrea Küng et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2026

    Adolescents living in refugee settlements have high rates of induced abortion and unintended pregnancy. Expanding access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, including safe abortion and contraception, is critical. In particular, efforts should focus on strengthening supply chains, ensuring sexual and reproductive health is integrated into humanitarian programming, and strengthening community outreach to disseminate safe abo…

  • Estimating the incidence of induced abortion among women in refugee settings in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYohannes Dibaba Wado, Stephanie Küng et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2025

    The study found that abortion incidence is high among women in refugee settings in Ethiopia, and only a small proportion of induced abortions were conducted through SAC services. There is an urgent need to improve family planning, SAC, and PAC services in refugee camps

  • Abortion-related morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessStephanie Küng, Francis Moses et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Compared to regional and global estimates, the burden of abortion-related complications in Sierra Leone is high. The recent effort to liberalize abortion law is promising; this potential legal reform must be paired with the expansion of safe abortion services to reduce abortion-related morbidity and mortality in the country. In the absence of legal change, our analysis also emphasizes the need to ensure PAC services are always free of cost, that …

  • Estimating Incidence of Induced Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy Among Women in Refugee Settlements in Uganda

    Open AccessGeorge Odwe, Peter Kisaakye et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2025Referencias: 36

    Estimates of the incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancies in refugee settings are lacking, limiting efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health services. We adapted the abortion incidence complications method to estimate the incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancy among women aged 15–49 years in refugee settlements in Uganda. We draw data from a survey of 102 health facilities providing postabortion care (PAC)…

  • Estimating the Social Visibility of Abortions in Uganda and Ethiopia Using the Game of Contacts

    Open AccessMargaret Giorgio, Simon Peter Sebina Kibira et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2024Referencias: 40

    Social network–based data collection methods that rely on third‐party reporting have emerged as a promising approach for measuring abortion in restrictive settings. In order for these methods to accurately measure abortion incidence, they must also assess the visibility of abortions within social networks. Failure to do so may result in estimates affected by transmission bias, caused by imperfect knowledge of all abortions within one's social net…

  • Lived experiences and drivers of induced abortion among women in central Uganda

    Open AccessSimon Peter Sebina Kibira, Melissa Stillman et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Although unsafe abortions are preventable, they are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity. Despite the serious potential health consequences, there is limited published information about drivers and challenges of obtaining abortions in restrictive settings such as Uganda. This limits efforts to improve programing for preventing unsafe abortion and providing comprehensive post abortion care. This study sought to understand …

  • Self-reported abortion experiences in Ethiopia and Uganda, new evidence from cross-sectional community-based surveys

    Open AccessMargaret Giorgio, Fredrick Makumbi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality. To gain insight into the ways in which abortion restrictions and stigma may shape reproductive health outcomes, we present self-reported data on abortions in Ethiopia and Uganda and compare these findings across the two varying legal contexts. W investigate differences in sociodemographic characteristics by whether or not a woman self-reported an abortion, and we describe…

  • Impact of the Trump Administration's Expanded Global Gag Rule Policy on Family Planning Service Provision in Ethiopia

    Open AccessElizabeth Sully, Solomon Shiferaw et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 16

    The Global Gag Rule (GGR) makes non‐U.S. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) ineligible for U.S. Government global health funding if they provide, refer, or promote access to abortion. This study quantitatively examines the impacts of the GGR on family planning service provision in Ethiopia. Using a panel of health facilities (2017–2020), we conduct a pre–post analysis to investigate the overall changes in family planning service provision befor…

  • An Assessment of Third‐Party Reporting of Close Ties to Measure Sensitive Behaviors

    Open AccessMargaret Giorgio, Elizabeth Sully et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2021Citada por: 4Referencias: 43

    Indirect estimation techniques are important tools for measuring sensitive and stigmatized behaviors. This includes third‐party reporting methods, which have become increasingly common in the field of abortion measurement, where direct survey approaches notoriously lead to underreporting. This paper provides the first in‐depth assessment of one of the most widely used of these techniques in the field of abortion measurement: the confidante method…

  • An Application of the Confidante Method to Estimate Induced Abortion Incidence in Java, Indonesia

    Melissa Stillman, Stillman Stillman et al.ARTICLEInternational Perspectives on…2020

    CONTEXT: Induced abortion is legally restricted and highly stigmatized in Indonesia, and is thus extremely difficult to measure. Indirect methods leveraging women's social networks, such as the Confidante Method, have shown promise in estimating hidden behaviors, including abortion, in similar settings. METHODS: A community-based survey was conducted among 8,696 women aged 15-49 in Java, Indonesia, in November 2018-January 2019. Data were collect…

  • Estimating the Incidence of Induced Abortion in Java, Indonesia, 2018

    Margaret Giorgio, Giorgio Giorgio et al.ARTICLEInternational Perspectives on…2020

    CONTEXT: In Indonesia, maternal mortality is high and abortion is restricted. Reliable information on induced abortion is needed; however, the difficulty of measuring abortion in settings where it is legally restricted and highly stigmatized calls for innovation in approaches to measuring abortion incidence. METHODS: The data were from three original surveys conducted in Java among health facilities, knowledgeable informants and women aged 15-49,…

  • Estimating abortion incidence using the network scale-up method

    Open AccessElizabeth Sully, Margaret Giorgio et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 41

    A major challenge in abortion research is accurately measuring the incidence of induced abortion, particularly in restrictive settings. This study tests the network scale-up method (NSUM) to measure abortion incidence, which uses respondent social network

  • The Relationship Between Social Support, HIV Serostatus, and Perceived Likelihood of Being HIV Positive Among Self-Settled Female, Foreign Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa

    Open AccessMargaret Giorgio, Loraine Townsend et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2016

  • HIV Prevalence and Risk Factors Among Male Foreign Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa

    Open AccessMargaret Giorgio, Loraine Townsend et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2016

  • Social Support, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex Among Female Transnational Migrants to South Africa

    Margaret Giorgio, Loraine Townsend et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016Referencias: 35

    Objectives. To examine the relationship between sexual violence and transactional sex and assess the impact of social support on this relationship among female transnational migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. Methods. In 2012 we administered a behavioral risk factor survey using respondent-driven sampling to transnational migrant women aged between 16 and 39 years, born outside South Africa, living in Cape Town, and speaking English, Shona, Swa…

  • Retailer compliance with tobacco control laws in New York City before and after raising the minimum legal purchase age to 21

    Diana Silver, James Macinko et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2015

    Several aspects of tobacco control appear to have deteriorated in NYC. Greater attention to monitoring retailer compliance with all tobacco regulations will be important for Tobacco 21 laws to be effective in reducing youth access to tobacco products

  • Over-the-counter sales of out-of-state and counterfeit tax stamp cigarettes in New York City

    Diana Silver, Margaret Giorgio et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2015

    Enhanced enforcement of retail sales of cigarettes is needed to ensure the full benefit of existing tobacco control laws in NYC