Essential Elements of Postabortion Care
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The Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium1 is pleased to introduce the Essential Elements of Postabortion Care: An Expanded and Updated Model. Based on a continuum of care approach, this expanded and updated PAC model builds on more than ten years of cooperating agency (CAs), NGO and donor experience with the original PAC model, first articulated by Ipas2 in 1991, and published as a model by Ipas in 19943 and by the PAC Consortium in 19954. PAC program achievements and lessons learned with the original PAC model, combined with commitments to the 1994 ICPD Programme of Action5 and the experience of various organizations and countries which included additional elements in their PAC programs over the years6,7,8 inspired the PAC/Community Task Force to expand and update the original PAC model to reflect progress and an expanded vision of high-quality and sustainable PAC services.
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Creating linkages between incomplete abortion treatment and family planning services in Kenya.
Postabortion care has received increasing emphasis as an important intervention to address part of the problem of unsafe abortion. Although a good deal of attention has been paid to improving emergency treatment of abortion complications, the other elements of postabortion care, including providing postabortion family planning services, have received less attention and are rarely found in healt...
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BACKGROUND Postabortion contraceptive service is considered an effective means in addressing the problem of unsafe abortion; in spite this fact this component remains one of the weakest parts of postabortion care. In this context, the paper aims to describe the impact of a postabortion contraceptive service intervention among women admitted with complications from unsafe abortions and to explor...
متن کاملComparing the quality of three models of postabortion care in public hospitals in Mexico City.
CONTEXT Each year, an estimated 120,000 women in Mexico seek treatment in public hospitals for abortion-related complications--the country's fourth leading cause of maternal mortality. Models of postabortion care emphasizing counseling and provision of contraceptives have the potential to improve the quality of care these women receive. METHODS Between April 1997 and August 1998, women treate...
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CONTEXT Although Indian law permits abortion for a broad range of social and medical indications, millions of unsafe and illegal abortions and countless subsequent complications occur annually. Nonetheless, in the central Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, few women with abortion complications are reported to seek care at registered private and public health facilities. Information is needed about ...
متن کاملAccess to and Quality of Menstrual Regulation and Postabortion Care in Bangladesh: Evidence from a Survey Of Health Facilities, 2014
■ ■ Policy and programmatic actions are needed to increase availability of and access to MR and treatment for postabortion complications. Strategies include increasing training for providers and disseminating information about the MR program at the community level. In addition, provision of contraceptive counseling and methods for postabortion care and MR patients must be improved, particularly...
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