At the 1994 ICPD, sub-Saharan African (SSA) states pledged, inter alia, to guarantee quality
post-abortion care (PAC) services. We synthesized existing research on PAC services …

Globally, many women undergo unsafe abortion, although abortion is extremely safe when
done in accordance with recommended guidelines. Hence, many women suffer from …

Boundary work refers to the strategies deployed by professionals in the arenas of the public,
the law and the workplace to define and defend jurisdictional authority. Little attention has …

Reproductive governance operates through calculating demographic statistics that offer
selective truths about reproductive practices, bodies, and subjectivities. Post-abortion care, a …

Since the early 1990s, post-abortion care (PAC) has been advocated as a harm reduction
approach to maternal mortality and morbidity in countries with restrictive abortion laws. PAC …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Senegal between 2010 and 2011, I
demonstrate how health professionals have deployed indicators such as number of women …

This paper is about a drug called misoprostol and its controversial clinical and social lives.
Although originally developed as a prevention for gastric ulcers, in the 1980s, it developed …

Background Making misoprostol widely available for management of postpartum
haemorrhage (PPH) and post abortion care (PAC) is essential for reducing maternal …

The “rightness” of a technology for completing a particular task is negotiated by medical
professionals, patients, state institutions, manufacturing companies, and non-governmental …

Post-abortion care (PAC) integrates elements that are vital for women's survival after
abortion complications and their ability to meet their subsequent fertility intentions. Currently …