Indigenous women in Latin America have poorer reproductive health outcomes than the general population and face considerable barriers in accessing adequate health services. Indigenous women have high rates of adolescent fertility and unintended pregnancy and may face increased risks for morbidity and mortality related to unsafe abortion. However, research among this population, particularly foc...

About 50 studies based on the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and a telephone reinterview conducted with the same women two years later provide continuing information about the fertility and health of American women. Among the findings of these studies are that black women have almost twice as many pregnancies as do white women (5.1 vs. 2.8), with nearly all of the difference being...

Historically females of all ages have been underrepresented in clinical research. Reasons for this exclusion are multifactorial and may possibly have their origins in regulation that forbid the participation of females of childbearing potential in the earliest phase clinical studies that support drug approval. Decades of female underrepresentation in clinical studies has resulted in inequality ...

Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Evaluative Clinical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Center for Leading Injury Prevention Practice Education & Rese...

Why positive women access abortion care HIV positive women may need abortion care for various reasons. Rates of violence against positive women are high [2]; when sexual assault is involved and a woman cannot access emergency contraception, she may want to terminate a resulting unwanted pregnancy. HIV positive women may access abortion services because they deliberately and thoughtfully choose ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Although modern family planning methods are readily available in Egypt at low cost, a considerable proportion of women still have an unmet contraceptive need. The aim of this study was to detect the risk factors of unmet contraceptive need among married women in the childbearing period in an underprivileged area in Cairo with high population density. A survey of 2340 ...

CONTEXT Ideal family size and desire for an additional child are the two most commonly used fertility preference indicators. However, little is known about the consistency over time of responses to each measure, the consistency between the two indicators or the predictive value of these indicators in India. METHOD Longitudinal data from the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey and a follow...

BACKGROUND While unintended pregnancies pose a serious threat to the health and well-being of families globally, characteristics of Tanzanian women who conceive unintentionally are rarely documented. This analysis identifies factors associated with unintended pregnancies-both mistimed and unwanted-in three rural districts of Tanzania. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 2,183 random household...