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 …

Despite impressive global investment in reproductive health programs in West Africa,
maternal mortality remains unacceptably high and obstetric care is often inadequate. Fertility …

During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency
obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion …

Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is
most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning. The long arm of US domestic …

Background Unsafe abortion is still a leading cause of maternal death in most Sub-Saharan
African countries. Post-abortion care (PAC) aims to minimize morbidity and mortality …

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 …

Despite political commitments to address maternal deaths due to abortion, women and girls
in Burkina Faso still face impediments to accessing post-abortion care (PAC) services …

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 …