What’s needed to improve safety and quality of abortion care

Reflections from WHO/HRP Multi-Country Study on Abortion across the sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and Caribbean regions

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ID21879804
AutoresHedieh Mehrtash (0000-0003-4991-616X, World Health Organization, autor correspondente), Caron Kim (0000-0002-3574-4160, UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and ResearchTraining in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland), Caron Rahn Kim (World Health Organization), Bela Ganatra (0000-0002-4812-4577, World Health Organization), Özge Tunçalp (0000-0002-5370-682X, World Health Organization)
Ano2021
Volume6
Fascículo8
Páginase007226
Data de publicação2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBMJ Global Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908
EditoraBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007226
PMID34465583
OpenAlexW3196393124
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas14

box In the advent of safe methods, access to information and trained providers, abortion has become a very safe procedure; however, unsafe abortions continue to persist in many parts of the world. Unsafe abortions account for half of all abortions globally, with the majority occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and Caribbean (LAC).1 Severe abortion-related complications arise from least safe abortions.1 Between 2008 and 2013, it was estimated that approximately 10% of maternal deaths are attributable to abortion-related causes in sub-Saharan Africa and LAC2; however, studies exploring abortion morbidity and mortality including management of these complications have been limited or varied in estimations of the complications limiting comparability as there has been a lack of standard definitions, identification criteria and measurement tools. Since the early 2000s, WHO/HRP has been conducting a series of WHO Multi-Country Studies (MCSs) on maternal and newborn health across multiple countries and health facilities globally.3–5 Using

Abortion · Caribbean region · Comparability · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Family planning · Health care · Latin Americans · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Reproductive health · Research methodology · Unsafe abortion · Global Maternal and Child Health · Maternal and fetal healthcare · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Contraception