METHODS: Between April 1997 andAugust 1998, women treated for abortion complications
in six Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) hospitals in the Mexico City metropolitan …

Treatment of abortion complications, whether resulting from a spontaneous abortion
(miscarriage) or unsafely-Induced abortion, has been offered by health systems for decades …

The goal of this study was to determine the sustainability of the postabortion care (PAC)
training and service delivery intervention introduced in the Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides …

Aside from spontaneous miscarriages, an estimated 3.4 million abortions are performed
each year in 19 Latin American countries, even though throughout the region abortion is …

Objective To investigate patients' views of family-planning services provided in Mexico City
during abortion care at public facilities and their acceptance of postabortion contraception …

Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality and morbidity in Latin
America. Postabortion care (PAC) using preferred technologies and a woman-centred …

This paper describes patients' and provider&perceptions of the quality of care in the
treatment of 232 women who arrived at the emergency room of a public hospital in Oaxaca …

Maternal mortality is one of the most important public health problems in Bolivia; although
the Ministry of Health (MOH) has declared that maternal mortality is one of its first priorities …

Worldwide 75 million women need postabortion care (PAC) services each year following
safe or unsafe induced abortions and miscarriages. We reviewed more than 550 studies on …

In settings where abortion is legally restricted and socially sanctioned, the medical treatment
of women who have had unsafe or incomplete abortions is often a willfully ne-glected …