CONTEXT Ethiopia liberalized its abortion law in 2005, primarily to reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion. However, little is known about the current extent and consequences of unsafe abortion. METHODS Data were collected in 2007-2008 on 1,932 women seeking postabortion care at a nationally representative sample of 344 public and private health facilities. In addition, staff respondents at ...

Unintended pregnancy can carry serious consequences for women and their families. We estimate the incidence of pregnancy by intention status and outcome at worldwide, regional, and subregional levels for 2008, and we assess recent trends since 1995. Numbers of births are based on United Nations estimates. Induced abortions are estimated by projecting from recent trends. A model-based approach i...

Abortion has been mankind's most commonly used method of birth control. Today, both the social attitudes and medical practices are changing fast. New medical and smgical techniques are being developed for an easy and safe method tl) meet the increasing social demand for such a procedure. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 came to force irl India from 1st April 1972. From April, 1972...

Live births, induced abortions, and miscarriages/stillbirths are usually examined separately. This article combines the three outcomes to focus on pregnancy in Canada from 1974 to 1992. An estimated 525,100 pregnancies ended in Canada during 1992. While this was a substantial increase from 438,300 in 1974, the pregnancy rate in 1992-77 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44-was actually lowe...

Background: Recurrent abortion is defined as three or more consecutive pregnancy losses. We aimed to determine the relationship between male sperm parameters and hypo-osmotic swelling score and recurrent abortion. We also studied whether washing of spermatozoa and intrauterine insemination in patients with recurrent miscarriage and low score hypo-osmotic swelling test in male partners could imp...

Background: Aim of study was to compare effectiveness, adverse effects and patient’s acceptability buccal vaginal routes administration misoprostol in 1st 2nd trimester abortion, type study-randomized control trial Methods: A total 200 women with indications for abortion up 20 weeks pregnancy were enrolled over a period 1 year received either through (Group A) or B) route. Each group containing...

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...

BACKGROUND Antiphospholipid antibodies are associated with recurrent abortion but correlation between level of antibodies and gestational age of abortion and duration post abortion is not clear. OBJECTIVES Aim of this study was study on relation between antiphospholipid antibodies in women with recurrent abortion and their gestational age and duration post abortion. PATIENTS AND METHODS We ...

OBJECTIVES This article provides an overview of trends from 1974 to 1994 in pregnancies among women aged 15 to 19. DATA SOURCES Vital statistics, abortion data, and hospital morbidity files maintained by Statistics Canada were used to develop estimated of pregnancies, live births, abortions, and stillbirths/miscarriages. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Rates of pregnancy, live birth, abortion and sti...