Background Telemedicine is increasingly being used to access abortion services. Objective
To assess the success rate, safety, and acceptability for women and providers of medical …

Executive summary Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of
it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs …

Background Data of abortion incidence and trends are needed to monitor progress toward
improvement of maternal health and access to family planning. To date, estimates of safe …

Background Teenage pregnancies cause serious health, social and economic
consequences including death among adolescent girls worldwide. It is estimated that in …

Abstract Introduction The World Health Organization estimated that approximately 48 million
couples and 186 million people are infertile worldwide. Although the problem of infertility is …

Malawian women in all sectors of society are suffering from social implications of unwanted
pregnancy and unsafe abortion. Unwanted pregnancies occur among women who have …

CONTEXT: Periodic assessments of abortion incidence are essential for monitoring trends in
unintended pregnancy and gaps in contraceptive services and use. METHODS: Statistics …

Despite significant interests in contraception by men, effective methods of male
contraception are limited to vasectomy and condoms. Recently, there have been several …

In medicine, the vast majority of conscientious objection (CO) is exercised within the
reproductive healthcare field–particularly for abortion and contraception. Current laws and …

In Ghana, despite a 38 percent decline in the total fertility rate from 1988 to 2008, unmet
need for family planning among married women exposed to pregnancy risk declined only …