this study has been conducted on the path reports of diagnostic curettage carried out in mirza koochek-khan hospital during the 6 months of the year 1989 (april to september). the reports examined have been further classified into incompelete abortion, diagnostic currettage and others. a total number of 645 women have had d&c; according to the above criteria. in this period of time, incomplete ...

Economic theory predicts that abortion laws affect sexual behavior since they change the marginal cost of having risky sex. We estimate the impact of abortion laws on sexual behavior by reported gonorrhea incidence. Our data panel includes 41 countries for which consistent gonorrhea data are available for 1980–2000. Compared with laws permitting abortion only to save the pregnant woman’s life o...

CONTEXT Bangladesh is unique in including menstrual regulation (MR) services as part of the government family planning program, despite having a highly restrictive abortion law. The only national estimates of MR and abortion incidence are from a 1995 study, and updated information is needed to inform policies and programs regarding the provision of MR and related reproductive health services. ...

OBJECTIVE To study the efficacy of a low dose of mifepristone (100 mg) in combination with misoprostol, in women undergoing medical termination of pregnancy up to gestation of 49 days. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study was performed in 50 women (mean age 26.54±3.68 years) with single intrauterine pregnancy of up to 49 days of gestation, presenting to our institution between November 20...

Volume 28, Number 4, December 2002 In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 95% of induced abortions are performed illegally, often in unsafe conditions.*1 Unsafe abortions occur at a higher rate in this region than in any other region in the world: Each year, 30 of every 1,000 women of reproductive age in Latin America and the Caribbean have an unsafe abortion, compared with 27 per 1,000 ...

Lazy update protocols have proven to have an undesirable behavior due to their high abortion rate in scenarios with high degree of access conflicts. In this paper, we present the problem of the abortion rate in such protocols from an statistical point of view, in order to provide an expression that predicts the probability of an object to be out of date during the execution of a transaction. It...

seven hundred and sixty-eight blood samples of pregnant cattle from four holstein dairy herds that are farmed in the vicinity of tehran were used to evaluate the seroprevalence of neospora caninum infection by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa). two hundred and ninety-eight of the 768 blood samples (38.8%) were positive for this infection. the prevalence of infection in the herds varied ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Despite the high prevalence of unplanned pregnancy and abortion in the USA, abortion education in medical schools and residencies is extremely limited. Regardless of their personal views, family physicians will care for many women who have abortions. This article describes the implementation and evaluation of a learner-centred abortion curriculum in a family medicine ...

OBJECTIVES To document the pilot experience of provision of safe abortion/post-abortion services implemented in 2002 at the Mother Child Health clinic in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and to profile clients and assess their uptake of post-abortion contraception. METHODS The initial package of safe abortion/post-abortion clinics (SAPAC) services included counselling on family planning and preventio...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine rates on induced abortions and to identify the perceived and actual reasons for terminating an unplanned pregnancy, health care providers sought, methods used and post-abortion complications. SETTING Three squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan. SUBJECTS Interviews were conducted on 1,214 ever-married women in the reproductive age group (15...