Ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights
imperative. As with other more visible global-health issues, this scourge threatens women …

We use a randomized experiment to test whether and what information changes teenagers'
sexual behavior in Kenya. Providing information on the relative risk of HIV infection by …

Issues related to maternal mortality have generated a lot of empirical and theoretical
information. However, despite the amount of work published on the topic, maternal mortality …

Objective To identify the determinants of skilled and unskilled birth attendance. Method
Population‐based survey in a rural area in Cambodia, of women aged 15–49 years who …

La interrupción de embarazo representa un problema de salud que compromete la salud
reproductiva de las adolescentes tanto desde el punto de vista biológico, sicológico, como …

Background Despite abortion being legal, complications from induced abortion are the
second leading cause of maternal mortality in Ghana. The objective of this study was to …

Clostridium sordellii is a spore-forming, obligately anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium that
can cause toxic shock syndrome after gynecological procedures. Although the incidence of …

“Medical tourism” is fast becoming a subject of major research interest. It is usually
understood to be a twenty-first century manifestation of health tourism and refers to travel to …

Unsafe abortions refer to terminations of unintended pregnancies by persons lacking the
necessary skills, or in an environment lacking the minimum medical standards, or both …

Combined hormonal contraceptives (COCs) are one of the most popular methods of birth
control, worldwide. This reliable form of contraception, having a theoretical failure rate of …