Background Access to safe abortion is legally restricted in Kenya. Therefore, majority
women seeking abortion services in such restrictive contexts resort to unsafe methods and …

Objective To conduct a systematic review of the status of post-abortion care (PAC) provision
in Eastern and Southern Africa with particular reference to reach, quality and costs of these …

Background Good quality post-abortion-care (PAC) is essential to prevent death and long-
term complications following unsafe abortion, especially in countries with restrictive abortion …

Background: Globally, universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services has
been re-emphasised. One-third of maternal deaths could be averted by improving access to …

Over the last five years, comprehensive national surveys of the cost of post-abortion care
(PAC) to national health systems have been undertaken in Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and …

Introduction Complications due to unsafe abortions are an important cause of morbidity and
mortality in many sub-Saharan African countries. We aimed to characterise abortion-related …

Abstract Background: Comprehensive quality Post Abortion Care (PAC) is one of the
important strategies to save lives where access to safe abortion is restricted by Law and …

In 2006, in response to the high maternal mortality, driven largely by unsafe abortions, the
government of Ghana, in partnership with other organizations, launched the reducing …

Along with governments from around the world, African leaders agreed at the International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 to address unsafe abortion as …