Despite the availability of contraception, the rates of abortion among young women in South
Africa continue to increase. We designed a study to examine young people's attitudes about …

METHODS Surveys about abortion attitudes, beliefs and practice intentions were conducted
in 2005 and 2007 among 1,308 medical school students attending the University of Cape …

Pregnancy termination among young women constitutes a public health problem particularly
in South Africa where high prevalence of abortion has been recently recorded. The primary …

Context: Nigerian adolescents generally have low levels of contraceptive use, but their
reliance on unsafe abortion is high, and results in many abortion-related complications. To …

Objectives: Because medical, midwifery and law students in Ghana constitute the next
generation of health care and legal practitioners, this study aimed to evaluate their attitudes …

Objectives This study aimed to describe the attitudes toward abortion of Ghanaian University
students and to determine factors which are associated with supporting a woman's right to …

A study of the attitudes of school girls in Benin City, Nigeria, toward abortion and
contraception was carried out in three of the city's postprimary schools, using a uniform …

Background: Unsafe abortion causes 13% of maternal deaths worldwide. Safe abortion can
only be offered under conditions where legislation has been passed for legal termination of …

Background: Many young men continue to disregard the importance of contraception and
family planning in South Africa. The fact that even university students also do not take …

Background: The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act legalised abortion on
request in South Africa until up to 12 weeks of gestation and thereafter under specified …