The study authors say the research, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Guttmacher Institute in New York, highlights the need for safe access to abortion for all women to the full extent of the law, and for outdated, unsafe methods to be replaced. "Even though it's diffi...
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Roughly 73 percent of abortions were obtained by married women. The World Health Organization and the Guttmatcher Institute – a U.S. research and policy organization that supports abortion rights – partnered on the study. In a statement, the study's lead author, Gilda Sedgh of the Gu...
World Health Organization Advocates for Expansion in the Role of Health Workforce to Prevent Unsafe Abortionsdoi:10.4103/2008-7802.173920Saurabh RamBihariLalShrivastavaPrateek SaurabhJegadeeshRamasamyInternational journal of preventive medicine
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 70,000 maternal deaths each year from complications of unsafe, illegal abortions and that approximately 585,000 women die every year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth (2). In many developing countries, there are unmet...
* The Guttmacher Institute, originally formed as a division of Planned Parenthood of America, reported 42 million abortions World-Wide in 2003 which was down from 46 million in 1995.The studywas funded by the World Health Organization, an agency of the UN and the World Bank. ...
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few days. “Hospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe... "Extermination & ...
* The Guttmacher Institute, originally formed as a division of Planned Parenthood of America, reported 42 million abortions World-Wide in 2003 which was down from 46 million in 1995.The studywas funded by the World Health Organization, an agency of the UN and the World Bank. ...
The issue of abortion remains too sensitive and taboo to be addressed by electoral campaigns, and his platform largely eluded the issue by merely promising to fully implement the existing legislation (penal code) which allows for therapeutic abortions (threat to a mother’s life or health), ...
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) advocates universal health coverage and integration of safe and effective traditional providers and complementary services into health service delivery, as well as self- care practices. These are key objectives of the WHO’s traditional medicine strategy 2014-...