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Abortion Providers and Safety of Abortion: A Community-Based Study in a Rural District of Tamil Nadu, India
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A community-based study in a rural district of Tamil Nadu, India, to examine their decision-making processes, the types of facility they attended and the extent of post-abortion complications they experienced, recommends that government facilities should improve their quality of care and unqualified providers should be stopped from practising.About:
This article is published in Reproductive Health Matters.The article was published on 2004-11-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Abortion law & Abortion.read more
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Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress
TL;DR: The Guttmacher Institute gratefully acknowledges the general support it receives from individuals and foundations as mentioned in this paper, including major grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation and others.
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Household perceptions and their implications for enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana
Caroline Jehu-Appiah,Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey,Irene Akua Agyepong,Ernst Spaan,Rob Baltussen +4 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that scheme factors have the strongest association with voluntary enrollment and retention decisions in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), specifically these relate to benefits, convenience and price of NHIS.
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Methodologies for estimating abortion incidence and abortion-related morbidity: a review.
TL;DR: The Guttmacher Institute collaborated with the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to edit and publish this volume based on the International Seminar on Measurement of Abortion Incidence Abortion-Related Morbidity and Mortality which took place in Paris France in November of 2007.
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Global Progress in Abortion Advocacy and Policy: An Assessment of the Decade since ICPD
TL;DR: A synthesis of public health and rights-based approaches, and strategic partnerships with other social justice movements are called for, as a foundation for effective legal reform efforts and to ensure that women have access to safe abortion services.
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Evaluating abortion-care programs: old challenges, new directions.
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for evaluating the intermediate outcomes of a safe abortion program, including laws and policies, women's care-seeking behavior, and the quality of, access to, and use of services is provided.
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Induced abortions among adolescent women in rural Maharashtra, India.
Bela Ganatra,Siddhi Hirve +1 more
TL;DR: Family planning programmes need to address the contraceptive needs of newly married adolescent women as well as unmarried adolescents by informing adolescents of their legal rights, sensitising providers to adopt an empathetic attitude, and exploring innovative ways of increasing access to safe services for unmarried adolescents are recommended.
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Abortion in India: an overview.
TL;DR: The extent of abortion practice unmet need for contraception inequalities poor service provision unsafe abortion practices and the extent of morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion are described.
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.
TL;DR: The court refused permission by calling the foetus ‘a life’, citing that the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 places a 20-week ceiling on termination of pregnancy.
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Abortion in India: an overview.
TL;DR: The paper points to a number of problems why abortion service is not available to women who want to undergo MTP and suggests certain remedial measures.