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Self-managed abortion as a humanitarian revolution: Accounts of a telehealth pilot in the Middle East

Lasserre L, Staderini N, Hasan M, Rossi V
2025-02-11 • Conflict and Health
2025-02-11 • Conflict and Health

BACKGROUND

Access to safe abortion care (SAC) should be improved in fragile and humanitarian settings, and the implementation of interventions in that regard ar...

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High severity of abortion complications in fragile and conflict-affected settings: AMoCo, a mixed-methods cross-sectional study in two referral hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa

Pasquier E
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
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Overcoming inaction and increasing access to safe abortion care: MSF experience

Fotheringham C, Kumar M, Schulte-Hillen C
2019-03-04 • PLoS Blogs
2019-03-04 • PLoS Blogs
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Overcoming barriers to provision of safe abortion care in MSF projects: Task Force approach

Kumar M
2019-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019
2019-05-10 • MSF Scientific Days International 2019
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Knowledge, attitudes, practices and behaviour of maternity ward staff in relation to comprehensive abortion care in a conflict-affected setting, Bangui, Central African Republic: cross-sectional survey

Chen H
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research

Assessing post-abortion care using the WHO quality of care framework for maternal and newborn health: a cross-sectional study in two African hospitals in humanitarian settings

Pasquier E, Owolabi OO, Powell B, Fetters T, Ngbale R,  et al.
2024-08-05 • Reproductive Health
2024-08-05 • Reproductive Health

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Abortion-related complications remain a main cause of maternal mortality. There is little evidence on the availability and quality of post-abortion c...

Reasons for delay in reaching healthcare with severe abortion-related morbidities: Qualitative results from women in the fragile context of Jigawa state, Nigeria (AMoCo)

Moore AM, Fetters T, Williams T, Pasquier E, Kantiok J,  et al.
2023-12-01 • SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
2023-12-01 • SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
Maternal near-miss events are a key measure of maternal health; abortion-related complications are one source of near-miss events. To understand the pathway to care of women with severe ...

The magnitude and severity of abortion-related complications: Referral Hospital in Jigawa State, a fragile setting - Results of the AMoCo study

Fotheringham C, Moore AM, Owolabi OO, Fetters T, Chen H,  et al.
2023-08-01
2023-08-01

A dearth of evidence on abortion complications in fragile settings limits the understanding of women’s needs in access to comprehensive abortion care in contexts like Jigawa state. Th...

Testing a framework for evaluating the quality of post-abortion care: an analysis using data from the AMoCo study in two sub-Saharan African hospitals in humanitarian settings

Pasquier E, Owolabi OO, Powell B, Fetters T, Ngbale RN,  et al.
2023-07-17 • Research Square
2023-07-17 • Research Square
BACKGROUND
Abortion-related complications remain a main cause of maternal mortality. Post-abortion care (PAC) provision in humanitarian settings suffers from limited accessibility, p...

Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors among providers of abortion-related care. A referral maternity hospital in Jigawa state, Nigeria, a fragile setting - Results of the AMoCo Study

Powell B, Chen H, Pasquier E, Owolabi OO, Fetters T,  et al.
2023-07-01
2023-07-01

Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors among providers of abortion-related care. Castors maternity in Bangui, Central African Republic, a conflict-affected urban setting - Results of the AMoCo study

Powell B, Chen H, Pasquier E, Fetters T, Owolabi OO,  et al.
2023-07-01
2023-07-01

High severity of abortion complications in fragile and conflict-affected settings: AMoCo, a mixed-methods cross-sectional study in two referral hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa

Pasquier E, Lissouba P, Moore AM, Owolabi OO, Chen H,  et al.
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
INTRODUCTION
Abortion-related complications are one of the five main causes of maternal mortality. However, research about abortion is very limited in fragile and conflict-affected s...

High severity of abortion complications in fragile and conflict-affected settings: AMoCo, a mixed-methods cross-sectional study in two referral hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa

Pasquier E, Lissouba P, Chen H, Williams TN, Baudin E,  et al.
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023
2023-06-07 • MSF Scientific Day International 2023

Lessons learned conducting abortion research in fragile contexts: Reflections from a mixed methods study in Africa (the AMoCo study)

Moore AM, Pasquier E, Williams TN, Fetters T, Powell B,  et al.
2023-03-20 • Research Square
2023-03-20 • Research Square
BACKGROUND
Conducting abortion research in fragile settings presents challenges, many of which are present in other low-resourced settings to various degrees but when appearing all t...

High severity of abortion complications in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a cross-sectional study in two referral hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa (AMoCo study)

Pasquier E, Owolabi OO, Fetters T, Ngbale RN, Adame Gbanzi MC,  et al.
2023-03-04 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2023-03-04 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BACKGROUND
Abortion-related complications are one of the five main causes of maternal mortality. However, research about abortion is very limited in fragile and conflict-affected set...

HIV, sexual violence, and termination of pregnancy among adolescent and adult female sex workers in Malawi: A respondent-driven sampling study

Bossard C, Chihana ML, Nicholas S, Mauambeta D, Weinstein D,  et al.
2022-12-30 • PLOS One
2022-12-30 • PLOS One
Female Sex Workers (FSWs) are a hard-to-reach and understudied population, especially those who begin selling sex at a young age. In one of the most economically disadvantaged regions in...

The magnitude and severity of abortion-related complications in the Castors Maternity in Bangui, Central African Republic – Evidence brief, March 2022

Pasquier E, Owolabi OO, Fetters T, Chen H, Williams TN,  et al.
2022-08-30
2022-08-30
Abortion complications remain a major cause of maternal mortality worldwide and abortion-related mortality has decreased very little over the last decade, unlike maternal mortality linke...

Abortion-related Morbidity and Mortality in Conflict-affected and fragile settings (AMoCo Study)

Pasquier E, Fetters T, Owolabi OO, Moore AM, Marquer C,  et al.
2020-12-15
2020-12-15
OVERALL AIM
To describe and estimate the burden of abortion-related complications, particularly near-miss complications and deaths, and their associated factors among women presentin...
On International Women's Day 2019, the authors discuss recent efforts by MSF to improve access to safe abortion care worldwide.

Now is the time: a call for increased access to contraception and safe abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kumar M, Daly M, de Plecker E, Jamet C, McRae M,  et al.
2020-07-20 • BMJ Global Health
2020-07-20 • BMJ Global Health
SUMMARY BOX

• The COVID-19 pandemic has begun to severely limit access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, including contraception and safe abortion care (SAC), which have h...

Knowledge, attitudes, practices and behaviour of maternity ward staff in relation to comprehensive abortion care in a conflict-affected setting, Bangui, Central African Republic: cross-sectional survey

Chen H, Fetters T, Ngbale NR, Nguengo L, Dodane T,  et al.
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
2021-05-18 • MSF Scientific Days International 2021: Research
INTRODUCTION
Abortion-related complications remain a major cause of maternal mortality worldwide. The Castor Maternity Unit (CMU) in Bangui, CAR, serves nearly 500,000 people affecte...