A strategic assessment of unsafe abortion in Malawi

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ID3973016
AutoresEmily Jackson (0000-0002-2052-2776, World Health Organization), Brooke Johnson (0000-0001-8075-5785, World Health Organization), Brooke Ronald Johnson, Hailemichael Gebreselassie, Godfrey Dalitso Kangaude (0000-0001-9433-8974), Chisale Mhango (Ministry of Health)
Año2011
Volumen19
Número37
Páginas133-143
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/s0968-8080(11)37563-5
PMID21555094
OpenAlexW2122169076
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas7

As part of efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5--to reduce maternal mortality by 75% and achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015--the Malawi Ministry of Health conducted a strategic assessment of unsafe abortion in Malawi. This paper describes the findings of the assessment, including a human rights-based review of Malawi's laws, policies and international agreements relating to sexual and reproductive health and data from 485 in-depth interviews about sexual and reproductive health, maternal mortality and unsafe abortion, conducted with Malawians from all parts of the country and social strata. Consensus recommendations to address the issue of unsafe abortion were developed by a broad base of local and international stakeholders during a national dissemination meeting. Malawi's restrictive abortion law, inaccessibility of safe abortion services, particularly for poor and young women, and lack of adequate family planning, youth-friendly and post-abortion care services were the most important barriers. The consensus reached was that to make abortion safe in Malawi, there were four areas for urgent action--abortion law reform; sexuality education and family planning; adolescent sexual and reproductive health services; and post-abortion care services

Abortion · Abortion law · Economic growth · Environmental health · Family planning · Human rights · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Unsafe abortion · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception