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Iqbal Shah
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 126
Citations - 6869
Iqbal Shah is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Family planning. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 118 publications receiving 6201 citations. Previous affiliations of Iqbal Shah include World Health Organization & Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic
David A. Grimes,Janie Benson,Susheela Singh,Mariana Romero,Bela Ganatra,Friday Okonofua,Iqbal Shah +6 more
TL;DR: Ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights imperative, and access to safe abortion improves women's health, and vice versa, as documented in Romania during the regime of President Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Induced abortion: incidence and trends worldwide from 1995 to 2008
TL;DR: The substantial decline in the abortion rate observed earlier has stalled, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased, so measures to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion are crucial steps toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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Induced abortion: estimated rates and trends worldwide.
TL;DR: New worldwide estimates of abortion rates and trends are presented and their implications for policies and programmes to reduce unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion and to increase access to safe abortion are discussed.
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Infecundity, infertility, and childlessness in developing countries
Shea O. Rutstein,Iqbal Shah +1 more
TL;DR: Reports from Demographic and Health Surveys data have provided up-to-date measurements of levels and trends in fertility in conjunction with data on important fertility determinants such as first marriage and union first birth contraception breastfeeding and infant and child mortality.
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Fertility intentions and reproductive health care needs of people living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: implications for integrating reproductive health and HIV care services.
Diane Cooper,Jennifer Moodley,Virginia Zweigenthal,Linda-Gail Bekker,Iqbal Shah,Landon Myer,Landon Myer +6 more
TL;DR: Overall, greater intentions to have children were associated with being male, having fewer children, living in an informal settlement and use of antiretroviral therapy, with being on HAART strongly associated with women's fertility intentions.