BACKGROUND Worldwide more than 70 million couples suffer from infertility, the majority
being residents of developing countries. Negative consequences of childlessness are …

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 …

Mental health and many common mental disorders are shaped to a great extent by the
social, economic, and physical enviro nments in which people live.• Social inequalities are …

Periodic estimation of the incidence of global unintended pregnancy can help demonstrate
the need for and impact of family planning programs. We draw upon multiple sources of data …

During the coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the basic strategy that is
recommended to reduce the spread of the disease is to practice proper hand hygiene and …

Objectives. To examine associations between state-level variation in abortion-restricting
policies in 2015 and total maternal mortality (TMM), maternal mortality (MM), and late …

Unintended pregnancy can carry serious consequences for women and their families. We
estimate the incidence of pregnancy by intention status and outcome at worldwide, regional …

Abortion stigma is widely acknowledged in many countries, but poorly theorised. Although
media accounts often evoke abortion stigma as a universal social fact, we suggest that the …

Abstract Background In Ghana, adolescents constitute about a quarter of the total
population. These adolescents make reproductive health decisions and choices based on …

Family planning is hailed as one of the great public health achievements of the last century,
and worldwide acceptance has risen to three-fifths of exposed couples. In many countries …