Abortion

Africa: Efforts to prevent unsafe abortions fall short, especially for HIV+

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 12th, 2004

Despite efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health across Africa, a new study has shown that over 4 million women undergo unsafe abortions each year and 34,000 of them die as a result, reported the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks on July 21, 2004 (www.irin.org).

In a recently released report, Ipas, an international women's health nongovernmental organization, noted that 10 years after a landmark UN population conference in Cairo, Egypt, women in Africa continued to face "elevated risks" of dying from pregnancy-related causes, with unsafe abortion posing a particularly dangerous threat.

At the 1994 International Conference on...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-08-12)

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