CONTEXT Periodic assessments of abortion incidence are essential for monitoring trends in unintended pregnancy and gaps in contraceptive services and use. METHODS Statistics and estimates of legal induced abortions in 2008 were compiled for 64 of the 77 countries in which legal abortion is generally available; these 64 are home to 98% of women aged 15-44 who live in the countries eligible for...

lence of induced abortion even in countries where abortion is legal.5 The shortcomings of direct measurement of abortion justify exploring the use of indirect estimation methods to measure abortion. Singh and Wulf estimated levels of induced abortion in six Latin American countries by adjusting data on abortion-related hospitalizations—which represented an estimate of the total number of aborti...

Acute kidney injury represents a challenging clinical condition occurring during pregnancy. The worldwide incidence of pregnancy-related acute kidneyinjury (PRAKI) has decreased markedly in the past 50 years from 20–40% in 1960 to less than 10% in the current series through the legalization of abortion and improvement of antenatal and obstetric care.[1] In the recent years, the incidence of PRA...

BACKGROUND While induced abortion is considered to be illegal and socially unacceptable in Nigeria, it is still practiced by many women in the country. Poor family planning and unsafe abortion practices have daunting effects on maternal health. For instance, Nigeria is on the verge of not meeting the Millennium development goals on maternal health due to high maternal mortality ratio, estimated...

CONTEXT Although abortion was made legal in Colombia under selected circumstances in 2006, no national studies have examined whether the incidence of the procedure has changed since the previous estimate in 1989. METHODS Data on the number of women treated for abortion complications were obtained from a nationally representative survey of 300 public and private health facilities, and estimate...

BACKGROUND Aspects of U.S. clinical abortion service provision such as gestational age limits, charges for abortion services, and anti-abortion harassment can impact the accessibility of abortion; this study documents changes in these measures between 2008 and 2012. METHODS In 2012 and 2013, we surveyed all known abortion-providing facilities in the United States (n = 1,720). This study summa...

100 cases of abortion, 45 cases of incomplete abortion, 15 cases of complete abortion, and 40 cases of pregnancy termination under 12 weeks, were studied in a comparison of placental transmission of fetal erythrocytes in maternal circulation under these conditions. Positive control smears (fresh cord blood of newborn babies) and negative control smears (adult males). The results of this stud...

HIGHLIGHTS n This report reviews and synthesizes the peer-reviewed literature, as well as important grey literature, published between 2002 and 2014 on abortion in India. n Over the past decade, some key policy developments have contributed to improved availability , accessibility and safety of induced abortion services; these include revised regulations expanding services to primary health cen...

Background: Regarding the develops of treatment and management of infertility during recent three decades, success of these methods is limited. Therefore, this study tried to show how corticosteroid therapy improves the results of ICSI. Materials and Methods: This semi clinical trail studywithout control group, including infertile women were candidate to ICSI of Kosar infertility center in urmi...

The incidence and character of the bacteremia associated with elective suction abortion was investigated in volunteer subjects aged 19 to 35 years who were to undergo first trimester abortion by suction curettage. One hundred and forty-four blood cultures were obtained from thirteen pregnant and four non-pregnant (control) subjects matched for age. Transient bacteremia occurred during or soon a...