Angel M Foster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3603357 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Angel M Foster |
| PRENOMES | Angel M |
| SOBRENOME | Foster |
| ASSINATURA | FOSTER A M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8848-203X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Women’s contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia
Although Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia have made significant progress in family planning and remain committed to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development goals, recent years have seen a decline in contraceptive use and a rise in unmet contraceptive need. Our review aimed to explore available information and identify gaps in the literature on family planning in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia by synthesising published literature on women…
Exploring the availability and accessibility of medication abortion pills without a prescription
In India, mifepristone was introduced in 2002 for use with misoprostol as medication abortion and is currently approved for use up to nine weeks of gestation. Even though a prescription from a clinician is officially needed to obtain this regimen, many abortion seekers try to obtain medication abortion pills directly from pharmacies without one. The availability of medication abortion in pharmacies varies widely across states. We conducted a myst…
Protectors or perpetrators? The paradox of male guardianship and gender-based violence in Libya
Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pervasive public health issue and human rights violation, deeply entrenched in patriarchal norms and legal frameworks. In Libya, systems and institutions regulate women's autonomy, reinforcing structural barriers that limit access to protection and justice. This study explores how sociocultural and structural factors shape women's vulnerability to GBV within the Libyan context. Using a multi-methods qualitati…
“If somebody wants an abortion, nobody should override their decision”
Recent advancements in artificial womb technology (AWT) – extrauterine gestation – have led to significant bioethical debates on the future of access to abortion. Anthropologists have leveraged concepts of stratified reproduction and reproductive governance to shed light on how different individuals are encouraged/discouraged to reproduce and how key actors such as the state mobilize the capacity for reproduction. As such, we aimed to explore the…
You can do this at home and people won’t find out”
Women seek pharmacy-based medication abortion services for various reasons, including barriers within the health system that limit access to public sector abortion sites. Strengthening the role of pharmacies as medication abortion providers is crucial as they are in a position to enhance women's agency by providing accurate information, medically sound services, and appropriate referrals. Establishing policies and guidelines to formally integrate…
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
I Don't Really Agree With That
Introduction Complete ectogenesis through artificial womb technology (AWT) would enable fertilization, embryonic development, and fetal development outside of the human body. In 2004, Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act established a 14‐day legal limit on the in vitro cultivation of human embryos, stymying the domestic development of AWT. Given recent scientific advancements, we aimed to explore Canadians' perspectives on the 14‐day rule and…
In the wake of the Dobbs decision
In August 2025, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed anthropologists Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about reproductive justice, activism, and scholarship in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the federally protected right to abortion in the United States. Bridges and Foster both have forthcoming books that discuss reproductive rights and justice fr…
Trust Women”
Considerable demand exists for medication abortion care from Shield Law providers. The MAP demonstrates that providers can trust women and other pregnancy capable people to decide for themselves whether to obtain medication abortion pills by mail and to pay what they can afford without being required to justify their need. Identifying ways to support Shield Law provision and further subsidize abortion care are needed
It definitely changed me”
Our findings suggest that 2S/LGBTQIA+ people may experience unique forms of identity abuse and may have difficulty recognizing their IPV experiences as abuse. Ensuring that comprehensive sexual health education is trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and includes information about healthy relationship dynamics, 2S/LGBTQIA+ relationships, and IPV is critical
Seeking support for abortion care from national hotlines in Canada
Objectives Both the National Abortion Federation Canada and Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights operate national toll‐free hotlines that provide information, financial support, and travel assistance to abortion seekers. We aimed to characterize callers to both hotlines before and after the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Methods Hotline personnel routinely document information about callers and type(s) of assistance needed and received. We…
Sex in the Middle East and North Africa
A Multi-Methods Qualitative Study of the Delivery Care Experiences of Congolese Refugees in Uganda
The more children you have, the more praise you get from the community”
The findings from our study showcase the role that specific sociocultural beliefs and practices and perceptions of health care services have on maternal and neonatal health. An in-depth understanding of how these factors impact the utilization of biomedical health services provides valuable information for targeted improvements in health service provision that are tailored to the local context
“We need good nutrition but we have no money to buy food”
BACKGROUND: Determinants of newborn health and survival exist across the reproductive life cycle, with many sociocultural and contextual factors influencing outcomes beyond the availability of, and access to, quality health services. In order to better understand key needs and opportunities to improve newborn health in refugee camp settings, we conducted a multi-methods qualitative study of the status of maternal and newborn health in refugee cam…
Exploring Canadian Women's Multiple Abortion Experiences
Put a Ring in It
Muftis in the Matrix
English- and Arabic-language cyberfatwas on emergency contraception (EC) illuminate current debates around sexuality in the global Muslim community. In websites with fatwas about EC, there are significant differences in the way that English- and Arabic-language fatwa websites discuss this reproductive health technology. During the study period of 2016–17, English-language sites were more likely to rule that EC was not religiously acceptable, wher…
Satisfaction guaranteed? How individual, partner, and relationship factors impact sexual satisfaction within partnerships
Within committed relationships, a wide range of factors may challenge or facilitate sexual satisfaction. The aim of this study was to clarify which individual, partner-, and partnership-related aspects of a sexual relationship are crucial for the prediction of sexual satisfaction. The study included data of a representative sample of 964 couples from the general population. The actor-partner interdependence model was used to estimate actor and pa…
Migrant tuberculosis patient needs and health system response along the Thailand–Myanmar border
This article aims to identify how the health system in Tak province, Thailand has responded to migrants' barriers to tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Our qualitatively driven multi-methods project utilized focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and a survey of community health volunteers to collect data in 2014 from multiple perspectives. Migrants identified legal status and transportation difficulties as the primary barriers to seeking T…
I came by the bicycle so we can avoid the police
For over half a century, political conflict combined with an overall lack of economic develop-ment has resulted in the displacement of millions of people both within Eastern Burma and to neighbour-ing Thailand. Given the overarching context, in conflict-affected regions of Burma, women face tremend-ous challenges in trying to obtain high quality, comprehensive reproductive health services. Drawing from interviews we conducted in Tak province, Tha…
Without this program, women can lose their lives
For displaced and migrant women in northern Thailand, access to health care is often limited, unwanted pregnancy is common, and unsafe abortion is a major contributor to maternal death and disability. Based on a pilot project and situational analysis research, in 2015 a multinational team introduced the Safe Abortion Referral Programme (SARP) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to reduce the socio-linguistic, economic, documentation, and transportation barr…
The 2018 Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings
Since the 1990s, the Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings (IAFM) has provided authoritative guidance on reproductive health service provision during different phases of complex humanitarian emergencies. In 2018, the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises will release a new edition of this global resource. In this article, we describe the collaborative and inter-sectoral revision process an…
Training reproductive health professionals in a post-conflict environment
Following two decades of civil war, Somalia recently entered the post-conflict rebuilding phase that has resulted in the rapid proliferation of higher education institutions. Given the high maternal mortality ratio, the federal government has identified the reproductive health education of health service professionals as a priority. Yet little is known about the coverage of contraception, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, and sexual and gender-bas…
Sexuality in the Arab World
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Politics, policies, pronatalism, and practice
Turkey has maintained liberal contraception and abortion policies since the 1980s. In 2012, the government proposed to restrict abortion; a bill limiting abortion was later drafted but never passed into law. Since the proposed restriction, women have reported difficulty accessing abortion services across Turkey. We aimed to better understand the current availability of abortion and reproductive health services in Istanbul and explore whether acce…
Harm Reduction or Women's Rights? Debating Access to Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Canada and the United States
This article compares the ethical pivot points in debates over nonprescription access to emergency contraceptive pills in Canada and the United States. These include women's right to be informed about the contraceptive method and its mechanism of action, pharmacists’conscientious objection concerning the dispensing of emergency contraceptive pills, and rights and equality of access to the method, especially for poor women and minorities. In both …
I came by the bicycle so we can avoid the police
For over half a century, political conflict combined with an overall lack of economic develop-ment has resulted in the displacement of millions of people both within Eastern Burma and to neighbour-ing Thailand. Given the overarching context, in conflict-affected regions of Burma, women face tremend-ous challenges in trying to obtain high quality, comprehensive reproductive health services. Drawing from interviews we conducted in Tak province, Tha…
The 2018 Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings
Since the 1990s, the Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings (IAFM) has provided authoritative guidance on reproductive health service provision during different phases of complex humanitarian emergencies. In 2018, the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises will release a new edition of this global resource. In this article, we describe the collaborative and inter-sectoral revision process an…
Emergency Contraception in Post‐Conflict Somalia
In conflict‐affected settings such as Somalia, emergency contraception (EC) has the potential to serve as an important means of pregnancy prevention. Yet Somalia remains one of the few countries without a registered progestin‐only EC pill. In 2014, we conducted a qualitative, multi‐methods study in Mogadishu to explore awareness of and perceptions of need for EC. Our project included 10 semi‐structured key informant interviews, 20 structured in‐p…
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Harm Reduction or Women's Rights? Debating Access to Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Canada and the United States
This article compares the ethical pivot points in debates over nonprescription access to emergency contraceptive pills in Canada and the United States. These include women's right to be informed about the contraceptive method and its mechanism of action, pharmacists’conscientious objection concerning the dispensing of emergency contraceptive pills, and rights and equality of access to the method, especially for poor women and minorities. In both …
Would you say you had unprotected sex if …? Sexual health language in emails to a reproductive health website
The words and metaphors that people use to describe sexuality and reproductive health reflect experiences with peers, sexual partners, health service providers and public health campaigns. In this paper we analyse 1134 emails sent to an emergency contraception website in the USA over the course of one year. Through an examination of the terminology used by authors to describe contraceptive methods, sexual intercourse and other sexual acts, we ana…
Assessing Sexual Assault Survivors' Access to Emergency Contraception
Do Religious Restrictions Influence Ectopic Pregnancy Management? A National Qualitative Study
Assessing the experiences of intra-uterine device users in a long-term conflict setting
Our findings suggest that this modality of contraception is culturally acceptable and may be able to address structural barriers to reproductive health services along the Thailand-Burma border. Ensuring that information provided by health care providers and among peer groups is evidence-based, a full range of contraceptive methods is available, and adoption of an IUD is affordable are priorities for expanding access to reproductive health service…
Barriers to Contraceptive Access after Health Care Reform
Exploring Somali women’s reproductive health knowledge and experiences
With a total fertility ratio of 6.7 children per woman, a maternal mortality ratio over 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births, high rates of sexual and gender-based violence, and the lowest contraceptive prevalence rate in the world, women’s reproductive health indices in Somalia prove alarming. The voices of women living in Somalia have long been neglected and we undertook this qualitative study to explore women’s reproductive health knowledge an…
No Exceptions
Since 1979, US federal appropriations bills have prohibited the use of federal funds from covering abortion care for Peace Corps volunteers. There are no exceptions; unlike other groups that receive health care through US federal funding streams, including Medicaid recipients, federal employees, and women in federal prisons, abortion care is not covered for volunteers even in cases of life endangerment, rape, or incest. We interviewed 433 returne…
Establishing a Referral System for Safe and Legal Abortion Care
Angel M. Foster, Grady Arnott, Margaret Hobstetter, Htin Zaw, Cynthia Maung, Cari Sietstra, Meredith Walsh, Establishing a Referral System for Safe and Legal Abortion Care: A Pilot Project on the Thailand-Burma Border, International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 42, No. 3 (September 2016), pp. 151-156
Access to free or low-cost tuberculosis treatment for migrants and refugees along the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak province, Thailand
Access to TB treatment for migrants and refugees occurs at the interface of health system accessibility, population ability and legal status. In Tak province, migrant patients draw upon their social networks and financial resources to navigate a pathway to treatment. We revised a conceptual framework for access to healthcare to incorporate legal status and the cyclical pathways through which migrants access TB treatment in this region. We recomme…
Access to Emergency Contraception in the Over-the-Counter Era
Emergency Contraception in Post‐Conflict Somalia
In conflict‐affected settings such as Somalia, emergency contraception (EC) has the potential to serve as an important means of pregnancy prevention. Yet Somalia remains one of the few countries without a registered progestin‐only EC pill. In 2014, we conducted a qualitative, multi‐methods study in Mogadishu to explore awareness of and perceptions of need for EC. Our project included 10 semi‐structured key informant interviews, 20 structured in‐p…
She Learned it from her Mother and Grandmother
Politics, policies, pronatalism, and practice
Turkey has maintained liberal contraception and abortion policies since the 1980s. In 2012, the government proposed to restrict abortion; a bill limiting abortion was later drafted but never passed into law. Since the proposed restriction, women have reported difficulty accessing abortion services across Turkey. We aimed to better understand the current availability of abortion and reproductive health services in Istanbul and explore whether acce…
Satisfaction guaranteed? How individual, partner, and relationship factors impact sexual satisfaction within partnerships
Within committed relationships, a wide range of factors may challenge or facilitate sexual satisfaction. The aim of this study was to clarify which individual, partner-, and partnership-related aspects of a sexual relationship are crucial for the prediction of sexual satisfaction. The study included data of a representative sample of 964 couples from the general population. The actor-partner interdependence model was used to estimate actor and pa…
Migrant tuberculosis patient needs and health system response along the Thailand–Myanmar border
This article aims to identify how the health system in Tak province, Thailand has responded to migrants' barriers to tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Our qualitatively driven multi-methods project utilized focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and a survey of community health volunteers to collect data in 2014 from multiple perspectives. Migrants identified legal status and transportation difficulties as the primary barriers to seeking T…
I came by the bicycle so we can avoid the police
For over half a century, political conflict combined with an overall lack of economic develop-ment has resulted in the displacement of millions of people both within Eastern Burma and to neighbour-ing Thailand. Given the overarching context, in conflict-affected regions of Burma, women face tremend-ous challenges in trying to obtain high quality, comprehensive reproductive health services. Drawing from interviews we conducted in Tak province, Tha…
Without this program, women can lose their lives
For displaced and migrant women in northern Thailand, access to health care is often limited, unwanted pregnancy is common, and unsafe abortion is a major contributor to maternal death and disability. Based on a pilot project and situational analysis research, in 2015 a multinational team introduced the Safe Abortion Referral Programme (SARP) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to reduce the socio-linguistic, economic, documentation, and transportation barr…
The 2018 Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings
Since the 1990s, the Inter-agency field manual on reproductive health in humanitarian settings (IAFM) has provided authoritative guidance on reproductive health service provision during different phases of complex humanitarian emergencies. In 2018, the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises will release a new edition of this global resource. In this article, we describe the collaborative and inter-sectoral revision process an…
Training reproductive health professionals in a post-conflict environment
Following two decades of civil war, Somalia recently entered the post-conflict rebuilding phase that has resulted in the rapid proliferation of higher education institutions. Given the high maternal mortality ratio, the federal government has identified the reproductive health education of health service professionals as a priority. Yet little is known about the coverage of contraception, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, and sexual and gender-bas…
“We need good nutrition but we have no money to buy food”
BACKGROUND: Determinants of newborn health and survival exist across the reproductive life cycle, with many sociocultural and contextual factors influencing outcomes beyond the availability of, and access to, quality health services. In order to better understand key needs and opportunities to improve newborn health in refugee camp settings, we conducted a multi-methods qualitative study of the status of maternal and newborn health in refugee cam…
Exploring Canadian Women's Multiple Abortion Experiences
Put a Ring in It
Muftis in the Matrix
English- and Arabic-language cyberfatwas on emergency contraception (EC) illuminate current debates around sexuality in the global Muslim community. In websites with fatwas about EC, there are significant differences in the way that English- and Arabic-language fatwa websites discuss this reproductive health technology. During the study period of 2016–17, English-language sites were more likely to rule that EC was not religiously acceptable, wher…
Medicine (28 obras) · Environmental health (20 obras) · Population (20 obras) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (19 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (18 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Nursing (15 obras) · Family planning (14 obras) · Reproductive health (13 obras)