CGPH AFFILIATED FACULTY: Ndola Prata
DATE OF PUBLICATION: July 2013
REGION: Africa (Tigray, Ethiopia)
REFERENCE: Prata N, Bell S, Gessessew A. Comprehensive abortion care: evidence of improvements in hospital-level indicators in Tigray, Ethiopia. BMJ Open. 2013 Jul 24;3(7). doi:pii: e002873. 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002873. Print 2013.
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Approximately 18% of maternal deaths in East Africa is attributable to unsafe abortion. Availability of comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services at all levels of the healthcare system, including medical abortion, has the potential to increase access to safe abortion thereby reducing the burden of unsafe abortion. This study sought to assess trends in abortion-related morbidity indicators in referral hospitals.
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