Alison M Moore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 202865 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alison M Moore |
| PRENOMES | Alison M |
| SOBRENOME | Moore |
| ASSINATURA | MOORE A M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Guttmacher Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6914-1974 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Pathways to care among women hospitalized with severe abortion complications in Bangui, Central African Republic, a conflict-affected urban setting
Our findings highlight the urgent need for MoH and partners to implement strategies improving timely access to high-quality postabortion care, such as informing communities about danger signs of abortion complications, treatment locations, improving referral systems, and reducing financial barriers. Training informal and lower-level medical staff in the recognition and treatment of abortion complications and about respectful non-judgmental commun…
Setting research priorities for sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings
This stakeholder-informed research agenda responds to calls for context-specific SRHR research in humanitarian settings. The importance of tailoring research to local realities, including health system capacity, legal constraints and cultural norms, was a recurrent theme across all regions. The BWRP method enables clear prioritisation while reducing respondent burden, offering a practical model for future exercises. As global funding for SRHR con…
Rohingya women’s knowledge and perceptions about pregnancy termination in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
The displaced Rohingya population residing in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, must navigate their reproductive lives in this fragile context. This study examines the knowledge, attitudes and use of menstrual regulation/pregnancy termination services in four displaced persons' camps to understand women's engagement with these services and barriers to safe services using Bandura's social cognitive theory. We conducted a household, community-based survey w…
Measuring Unmet Need for Contraception Using a Person‐Centered Algorithm
The standard measure of unmet need for contraception is not person‐centered and may not adequately represent women's contraceptive needs. To demonstrate the strength of a modified measure, we replicated the standard algorithm for unmet need, then created a person‐centered algorithm that considers (1) whether nonusers want to use contraception and (2) whether users want to use a different method. We applied the standard and person‐centered algorit…
Perceptions and attitudes of Rohingya community stakeholders to pregnancy termination services
The community stakeholders perspectives on barriers and enablers of pregnancy termination were variable with the context. These perspectives may support or impede women's ability to choice to seek pregnancy termination services. To improve women's choice to pregnancy termination, it is critical to consider roles of community stakeholders in creating their supporting attitudes to women's choice and access, and to designing targeted culturally appr…
Reasons for delay in reaching healthcare with severe abortion-related morbidities
Maternal near-miss events are a key measure of maternal health; abortion-related complications are one source of near-miss events. To understand the pathway to care of women with severe abortion-related events in a fragile context, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with women who obtained treatment at a referral hospital in Jigawa State, Nigeria, in 2020–2021 (n = 61). We used the Three Delays Model (Thaddeus & Maine, 1994) to exam…
Sexual and Reproductive Health Literacy, Misoprostol Knowledge and Use of Medication Abortion in Lagos State, Nigeria
Little is known about the link between health literacy and women's ability to safely and successfully use misoprostol to self‐induce an abortion. While abortion is only allowed to save a woman's life in Nigeria, misoprostol is widely available from drug sellers. We interviewed 394 women in 2018 in Lagos State, Nigeria, who induced abortion using misoprostol obtained from a drug seller to determine their sexual and reproductive health literacy (SR…
Incidence of treatment for postabortion complications in India, 2015
Abortion has been legal under broad criteria in India since 1971. However, access to legal abortion services remains poor. In the past decade, medication abortion (MA) has become widely available in India and use of this method outside of health facilities accounts for over 70% of all abortions. Morbidity from unsafe abortion remains an important health issue. The informal providers who are the primary source of MA may have poor knowledge of the …
Perceived Infertility Among Young Adults in Balaka, Malawi
CONTEXT: Perceived infertility-an individual's belief that she or he is unable to conceive or impregnate a partner-may lead to contraceptive nonuse and unintended pregnancy, among other concerns, but has not been widely studied in low-income settings. METHODS: A measure of perceived infertility previously used in the United States was included in a 2015 survey of young adults in Balaka, Malawi. The prevalence of potential perceived infertility (i…
Online Abortion Drug Sales in Indonesia
This study sought to understand the experience of buying misoprostol online for pregnancy termination in Indonesia. We conducted a mystery client study August through October, 2019. Interactions were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, along with the contents of the packages. One hundred ten sellers were contacted, from whom mystery clients made 76 purchases and received 64 drug packages. Almost all sellers sold “packets” containing multip…
Provision of medical methods of abortion in facilities in India in 2015
Medical methods of abortion, MMA, has been legal in India since 2002. Guidelines stipulate that it should be administered by a provider or acquired via prescription. 1.2 million women having abortions in India use MMA acquired from health facilities [Singh, S., Shekhar, C., Acharya, R., Moore, A. M., Stillman, M., Pradhan, M. R., ... Browne, A. (2018). The incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy in India, 2015. The Lancet Global Health , 6…
Genocide Instinctive Group Violence and Hominid Mass Killing
Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia
Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced abortion outside a facility, followed by care for abortion-related complications. We gathered household wealth data at one point in time (T1) and longitudinal qualitative data at two points in ti…
Trajectories of women's abortion-related care
We present a new conceptual framework for studying trajectories to obtaining abortion-related care. It assembles for the first time all of the known factors influencing a trajectory and encourages readers to consider the ways these macro- and micro-level factors operate in multiple and sometimes conflicting ways. Based on presentation to and feedback from abortion experts (researchers, providers, funders, policymakers and advisors, advocates) (n …
Victorian Medicine Was Not Responsible for Repressing the Clitoris
Narratives about female sexual pleasure frequently make recourse to teleological views of historical development that posit the present as relatively more enlightened than past repressive attitudes. The teleology usually takes the form of recognizing early modern accounts of the clitoris but denying the vast array of nineteenth-century sources that had significantly more holistic views about female pleasure than is often imagined. Any scholar who…
The Estimated Incidence of Induced Abortion in Ethiopia, 2014
CONTEXT: In 2005, Ethiopia's parliament amended the penal code to expand the circumstances in which abortion is legal. Although the country has expanded access to abortion and postabortion care, the last estimates of abortion incidence date from 2008. METHODS: Data were collected in 2014 from a nationally representative sample of 822 facilities that provide abortion or postabortion care, and from 82 key informants knowledgeable about abortion ser…
Changes in Morbidity and Abortion Care in Ethiopia After Legal Reform
CONTEXT: In Ethiopia, liberalization of the abortion law in 2005 led to changes in abortion services. It is important to examine how levels and types of abortion care-i.e., legal abortion and treatment of abortion complications-changed over time. METHODS: Between December 2013 and May 2014, data were collected on symptoms, procedures and treatment from 5,604 women who sought abortion care at a sample of 439 public and private health facilities; t…
The Complexity of Multiple Contraceptive Method Use and the Anxiety That Informs It
Despite clinical guidelines and national data describing the use of one contraceptive method as the best and most common way to prevent unintended pregnancy, limited evidence indicates a more complex picture of actual contraceptive practice. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted in November of 2013 with a sample of women from two cities in the United States (n = 52). The interviews explored the ways participants used contraception to pr…
Sexual Myths of Modernity
Attitudes of women and men living with HIV and their healthcare providers towards pregnancy and abortion by HIV-positive women in Nigeria and Zambia
Fertility decisions among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are complicated by disease progression, the health of their existing children and possible antiretroviral therapy (ART) use, among other factors. Using a sample of HIV-positive women (n = 353) and men (n = 299) from Nigeria and Zambia and their healthcare providers (n = 179), we examined attitudes towards childbearing and abortion by HIV-positive women. To measure childbearing and abor…
Ugandan opinion-leaders’ knowledge and perceptions of unsafe abortion
While laws in Uganda surrounding abortion remain contradictory, a frequent interpretation of the law is that abortion is only allowed to save the woman's life. Nevertheless abortion occurs frequently under unsafe conditions at a rate of 54 abortions per 1000 women of reproductive age annually, taking a large toll on women's health. There are an estimated 148,500 women in Uganda who experience abortion complications annually. Understanding opinion…
Bucking social norms
Community attitudes towards childbearing and abortion among HIV-positive women in Nigeria and Zambia
Although stigma towards HIV-positive women for both continuing and terminating a pregnancy has been documented, to date few studies have examined relative stigma towards one outcome versus the other. This study seeks to describe community attitudes towards each of two possible elective outcomes of an HIV-positive woman's pregnancy - induced abortion or birth - to determine which garners more stigma and document characteristics of community member…
Perceptions of susceptibility to pregnancy among U.S. women obtaining abortions
Unwanted sexual experiences among young men in four sub-Saharan African countries
Unwanted sexual experiences are most frequently examined from the woman's perspective, yet these experiences happen to men as well. Part of the reason for the paucity of studies on coerced sexual experiences among men is the difficulty in gathering information about such experiences. This study examines the prevalence of unwanted sexual experiences at sexual debut as well as ever among young men aged 12-19 years old in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi…
Male reproductive control of women who have experienced intimate partner violence in the United States
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions
Trajectories of women's abortion-related care
We present a new conceptual framework for studying trajectories to obtaining abortion-related care. It assembles for the first time all of the known factors influencing a trajectory and encourages readers to consider the ways these macro- and micro-level factors operate in multiple and sometimes conflicting ways. Based on presentation to and feedback from abortion experts (researchers, providers, funders, policymakers and advisors, advocates) (n …
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions
Squirrel monkey locomotion on an inclined treadmill
Abortion Incidence and Postabortion Care in Rwanda
Abortion is illegal in Rwanda except when necessary to protect a woman's physical health or to save her life. Many women in Rwanda obtain unsafe abortions, and some experience health complications as a result. To estimate the incidence of induced abortion, we conducted a national sample survey of health facilities that provide postabortion care and a purposive sample survey of key informants knowledgeable about abortion conditions. We found that …
Perceptions of susceptibility to pregnancy among U.S. women obtaining abortions
I Would Want to Give My Child, Like, Everything in the World
The majority of U.S. women who have abortions (61%) have children. This exploratory study analyzes qualitative information from 38 women obtaining abortions to examine how issues of motherhood influenced their decisions to terminate their pregnancies. Women in the sample had abortions because of the material responsibilities of motherhood, such as the care for their existing children, as well as the more abstract expectations of parenting, such a…
History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues
In numerous surveys of modern European history one can find examples of iconic visual representations of the `tondues: French women targeted as collaborators and whose heads were shaven in rituals of public disgrace during and after the defeat of German forces at the end of World War II.1 As images of humiliation, popular retribution, implicitly sexualised but muted corporeal violence, the tondue photos are striking, arresting and confounding to …
Online Abortion Drug Sales in Indonesia
This study sought to understand the experience of buying misoprostol online for pregnancy termination in Indonesia. We conducted a mystery client study August through October, 2019. Interactions were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, along with the contents of the packages. One hundred ten sellers were contacted, from whom mystery clients made 76 purchases and received 64 drug packages. Almost all sellers sold “packets” containing multip…
Victorian Medicine Was Not Responsible for Repressing the Clitoris
Narratives about female sexual pleasure frequently make recourse to teleological views of historical development that posit the present as relatively more enlightened than past repressive attitudes. The teleology usually takes the form of recognizing early modern accounts of the clitoris but denying the vast array of nineteenth-century sources that had significantly more holistic views about female pleasure than is often imagined. Any scholar who…
Ugandan opinion-leaders’ knowledge and perceptions of unsafe abortion
While laws in Uganda surrounding abortion remain contradictory, a frequent interpretation of the law is that abortion is only allowed to save the woman's life. Nevertheless abortion occurs frequently under unsafe conditions at a rate of 54 abortions per 1000 women of reproductive age annually, taking a large toll on women's health. There are an estimated 148,500 women in Uganda who experience abortion complications annually. Understanding opinion…
Comparing women's financial costs of induced abortion at a facility vs. seeking treatment for complications from unsafe abortion in Zambia
Although abortion is legal in Zambia under a variety of broad conditions, unsafe abortion remains common. The purpose of this project was to compare the financial costs for women when they have an induced abortion at a facility, with costs for an induced abortion outside a facility, followed by care for abortion-related complications. We gathered household wealth data at one point in time (T1) and longitudinal qualitative data at two points in ti…
Bucking social norms
Angular displacement patterns of leading and trailing limb joints during galloping in monkeys
The movement patterns of the joints of the right hind limbs and forelimbs of four vervet and one squirrel monkey were compared during right‐ and left‐lead gallops. Although the overall displacement patterns were similar under both conditions, comparisons of the inflection points in the curves yielded consistent differences in the joints at various phases in the cycle. Some of these differences appear to reflect differing mechanical conditions, wh…
Squirrel monkey locomotion on an inclined treadmill
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions
Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions
History, Memory and Trauma in Photography of the Tondues
In numerous surveys of modern European history one can find examples of iconic visual representations of the `tondues: French women targeted as collaborators and whose heads were shaven in rituals of public disgrace during and after the defeat of German forces at the end of World War II.1 As images of humiliation, popular retribution, implicitly sexualised but muted corporeal violence, the tondue photos are striking, arresting and confounding to …
Timing of steps and reasons for delays in obtaining abortions in the United States
Prevalence and Meanings of Exchange of Money or Gifts for Sex in Unmarried Adolescent Sexual Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa
Using national survey data collected in 2004 in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda with 12-19 year olds, we examine the prevalence of sex in exchange for money or gifts in the 12 months prior to the survey and its association with adolescents' social and economic vulnerability and condom use. Receiving something in exchange for sex is very common among sexually active, unmarried female adolescents and there are no significant differences by …
I Would Want to Give My Child, Like, Everything in the World
The majority of U.S. women who have abortions (61%) have children. This exploratory study analyzes qualitative information from 38 women obtaining abortions to examine how issues of motherhood influenced their decisions to terminate their pregnancies. Women in the sample had abortions because of the material responsibilities of motherhood, such as the care for their existing children, as well as the more abstract expectations of parenting, such a…
Male reproductive control of women who have experienced intimate partner violence in the United States
Men's Attitudes About Abortion in Uganda
Abortion is illegal in Uganda except to save the life of the woman. Nevertheless, the practice is quite common: about 300,000 induced abortions occur annually among Ugandan women aged 15–49 (Singh et al ., 2005) and a large proportion of these women require treatment for post-abortion complications. In the male-dominant culture of Uganda, where men control most of the financial resources, men play a critical part in determining whether women rece…
Do women and men consider abortion as an alternative to contraception in the United States? An exploratory study
The USA, a country with widespread access to the full range of modern methods of contraception, continues to have one of the highest abortion rates among developed countries. Forty-nine per cent of women reported ever experiencing an unintended pregnancy in 2001; 48% of these conceptions occurred during a month that contraception was used. We explored the extent to which people use contraception and abortion interchangeably to achieve their ferti…
Social stigma and disclosure about induced abortion
It is well recognised that unsafe abortions have significant implications for women's physical health; however, women's perceptions and experiences with abortion-related stigma and disclosure about abortion are not well understood. This paper examines the presence and intensity of abortion stigma in five countries, and seeks to understand how stigma is perceived and experienced by women who terminate an unintended pregnancy and influences her sub…
Managing unplanned pregnancies in five countries
Why is induced abortion common in environments in which modern contraception is readily available? This study analyses qualitative data collected from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with women and men from low-income areas in five countries--the United States, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and Mexico--to better understand how couples manage their pregnancy risk. Across all settings, women and men rarely weigh the advantages and disadva…
Perceptions of Male Knowledge and Support Among U.S. Women Obtaining Abortions
Unwanted sexual experiences among young men in four sub-Saharan African countries
Unwanted sexual experiences are most frequently examined from the woman's perspective, yet these experiences happen to men as well. Part of the reason for the paucity of studies on coerced sexual experiences among men is the difficulty in gathering information about such experiences. This study examines the prevalence of unwanted sexual experiences at sexual debut as well as ever among young men aged 12-19 years old in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi…
Abortion Incidence and Postabortion Care in Rwanda
Abortion is illegal in Rwanda except when necessary to protect a woman's physical health or to save her life. Many women in Rwanda obtain unsafe abortions, and some experience health complications as a result. To estimate the incidence of induced abortion, we conducted a national sample survey of health facilities that provide postabortion care and a purposive sample survey of key informants knowledgeable about abortion conditions. We found that …
Community attitudes towards childbearing and abortion among HIV-positive women in Nigeria and Zambia
Although stigma towards HIV-positive women for both continuing and terminating a pregnancy has been documented, to date few studies have examined relative stigma towards one outcome versus the other. This study seeks to describe community attitudes towards each of two possible elective outcomes of an HIV-positive woman's pregnancy - induced abortion or birth - to determine which garners more stigma and document characteristics of community member…
Perceptions of susceptibility to pregnancy among U.S. women obtaining abortions
Ugandan opinion-leaders’ knowledge and perceptions of unsafe abortion
While laws in Uganda surrounding abortion remain contradictory, a frequent interpretation of the law is that abortion is only allowed to save the woman's life. Nevertheless abortion occurs frequently under unsafe conditions at a rate of 54 abortions per 1000 women of reproductive age annually, taking a large toll on women's health. There are an estimated 148,500 women in Uganda who experience abortion complications annually. Understanding opinion…
Bucking social norms
Sexual Myths of Modernity
Attitudes of women and men living with HIV and their healthcare providers towards pregnancy and abortion by HIV-positive women in Nigeria and Zambia
Fertility decisions among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are complicated by disease progression, the health of their existing children and possible antiretroviral therapy (ART) use, among other factors. Using a sample of HIV-positive women (n = 353) and men (n = 299) from Nigeria and Zambia and their healthcare providers (n = 179), we examined attitudes towards childbearing and abortion by HIV-positive women. To measure childbearing and abor…
The Estimated Incidence of Induced Abortion in Ethiopia, 2014
CONTEXT: In 2005, Ethiopia's parliament amended the penal code to expand the circumstances in which abortion is legal. Although the country has expanded access to abortion and postabortion care, the last estimates of abortion incidence date from 2008. METHODS: Data were collected in 2014 from a nationally representative sample of 822 facilities that provide abortion or postabortion care, and from 82 key informants knowledgeable about abortion ser…
Changes in Morbidity and Abortion Care in Ethiopia After Legal Reform
CONTEXT: In Ethiopia, liberalization of the abortion law in 2005 led to changes in abortion services. It is important to examine how levels and types of abortion care-i.e., legal abortion and treatment of abortion complications-changed over time. METHODS: Between December 2013 and May 2014, data were collected on symptoms, procedures and treatment from 5,604 women who sought abortion care at a sample of 439 public and private health facilities; t…
The Complexity of Multiple Contraceptive Method Use and the Anxiety That Informs It
Despite clinical guidelines and national data describing the use of one contraceptive method as the best and most common way to prevent unintended pregnancy, limited evidence indicates a more complex picture of actual contraceptive practice. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted in November of 2013 with a sample of women from two cities in the United States (n = 52). The interviews explored the ways participants used contraception to pr…
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