Contraceptive use, fertility, and unsafe abortion in developing countries

European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care;  June 1, 2006 ;   Åhman, Elisabeth L; Shah, Iqbal H;   787 words ......between contraceptive prevalence and unsafe abortion in developing regions with different...is addressed by contraception or by unsafe abortion, where access to safe abortion is...secondary analysis of estimates of unsafe abortion, total fertility rate and contraceptive...

Unsafe abortion.(ROUND UP: Publications)(Brief article)

Reproductive Health Matters;  May 1, 2008 ;     195 words ......estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and related mortality for the...rates; health consequences of unsafe abortion and the difficulties in obtaining reliable data. Estimated unsafe abortion rates, ratios, related deaths...

Ground-Breaking Conference Takes on Abortion.

PR Newswire;  October 23, 2007 ;     590 words ......Organisers Highlight the Global Pandemic of Unsafe Abortion and Call for Universal Access to Safe...women's health and lives caused by unsafe abortion. Organisers of the Global Safe Abortion...annually die directly as a result of unsafe abortion, said Mark Lowcock, Director General...

Unsafe abortion and fundamentalism in the Philippines: locating absences,...

Women in Action;  April 1, 2008 ;   Viado, Lalaine P.;   787 words ......findings, specifically on the issue of unsafe abortion. The dominant discourse on the issue of unsafe abortion in the Philippines is fundamentalist...fundamentalist line. The issue of unsafe abortion in the country is thus transformed...

Legal abortion should be provided in Ghana.(ROUND UP: Advocacy)(Brief...

Reproductive Health Matters;  November 1, 2006 ;     150 words ......incidence of maternal mortality caused by unsafe abortion. Abortion is legal on several grounds...get access to safe abortion care. Unsafe abortion meanwhile remains the second largest...are disproportionately affected by unsafe abortion. A speaker from the University of...

Essential elements of postabortion care: origins, evolution and future...

International Family Planning Perspectives;  September 1, 2003 ;   Corbett, Maureen R. Turner, Katherine L.;   787 words ......place in the developing world. (2) Unsafe abortion accounts for an estimated 13% of pregnancy-relat...every year. In many other cases, unsafe abortion causes such long-term consequences...estimates that 10-50% of women who have an unsafe abortion need medical care; (7) some women...

U.S. LAWS ON EQUALITY AND PRIVACY PROVIDE ACCESS TO ABORTION.

WIN News;  January 1, 1999 ;     787 words ......Pamela B. Minzner wrote. .. UNSAFE ABORTION GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ESTIMATES...INCIDENCE OF AND MORTALITY DUE TO UNSAFE ABORTION WITH A LISTING OF AVAILABLE...incidence of and mortality due to unsafe abortion worldwide. The tabulations...

NGO sound alarm on unsafe abortion in Nigeria

Xinhua News Agency;  April 10, 2007 ;     346 words ...NGO sound alarm on unsafe abortion in Nigeria ABUJA, April 10...000 women obtain induced and unsafe abortion each year, while 10,000 of them...said. On social explanations to unsafe abortion, it said that many women become...

Abortion Kills 1,000 Ethiopian Women Yearly

Xinhua News Agency;  March 13, 2001 ;     83 words ......Health Ministry has announced that unsafe abortion has become one of the most common...suffering from complications related to unsafe abortion, said Lukman Yosef, a medical consultant...between 15 and 39 die annually of unsafe abortion, with most of them in developing countries...

Risk reduction for illegal abortion, Uruguay.(ROUND UP: Maternal Mortality...

Reproductive Health Matters;  November 1, 2007 ;     444 words ......one public hospital in Montevideo, unsafe abortion was causing 48% of all maternal mortality...called Public Health Initiative against Unsafe Abortion. This programme includes two interventions...to reduce the risks associated with unsafe abortion. The first is to offer a ...

Call to drop punitive measures against abortion

New Straits Times;  October 1, 2003 ;     403 words ......Women's Lives: The Health Impact of Unsafe Abortion". She said more than 131 developing...maternal deaths and disability due to unsafe abortion. "History has shown that women anywhere...on how to deal with the problem of unsafe abortion. "When it comes to fighting unsafe...

Unsafe abortion claims 50 pct death in Nepal

Xinhua News Agency;  June 5, 2005 ;     162 words ...Unsafe abortion claims 50 pct death in Nepal KATHMANDU...pregnancy in Nepal are attributed to unsafe abortion, revealed statistics made public...pregnant women in average die of unsafe abortion in Nepal everyday," Sapana Pradhan...

Complications of unsafe abortion: a case study and the need for abortion...

Reproductive Health Matters;  May 1, 2002 ;   Oye-Adeniran, Boniface A. Umoh, Augustine V. Nnatu, Steve NN;   787 words ...Abstract Complications of unsafe abortion account for 30-40% of maternal...paper reports a case of unsafe abortion by dilatation and curettage...recovery, for two weeks. Unsafe abortion is fraught with many complications...

Leaders from 10 African countries call for safe, legal abortion.(ROUND UP:...

Reproductive Health Matters;  November 1, 2007 ;     147 words ......globally who die from complications of unsafe abortion each year, 30,000 are African. The...make a political commitment to end unsafe abortion in their countries. Awori of Kenya...the conference called for an end to unsafe abortion in the continent. (1) (1.) Feminist...

Sex Education Called for in Nigeria

Xinhua English Newswire;  July 27, 1997 ;     127 words ......a measure to curb the high incidence of unsafe abortion in Nigeria. Unsafe abortion contributes to about 50 percent of Nigeria...planning options would drastically reduce unsafe abortion, said participants, quoted by local media...