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In Sub-Saharan Africa, an average of 1.7 million women per year receive post-abortion care (PAC). National average annual rates range from 4–7 per 1,000 women in Nigeria to about 15 per 1,000 women in Uganda. [5] PAC patients may be treated as inpatients or outpatients depending on the severity of their cases and national guidelines. PAC is ...
Gabon has one of the highest rates of abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Abortion was banned in Gabon under French colonial law, and later by a total ban in 1969. In the 1990s and 2000s, public concerns arose about unsafe abortions and teenage pregnancy, and certain therapeutic abortions were made legal.
Ethiopia is the second most populated country in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A central issue concerning the safety of its population is the access to health care including abortion services. Historically, access to abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa has created controversy amongst some members of the public and its healthcare professionals, due to ...
“Organizations thus have to evaluate what is most important: the non-abortion work they will still be able to do or the principle of pro-choice,” read part of the 2019 assessment report.
@Vigilantcosmicpenguin: The source specifies sub-Saharan Africa, so there could be theoretically countries in North Africa that have such laws which are not reflected and thus make the hook inadequate. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC) Right, thanks for pointing that out.
With a prediction of 85.7 million climate migrants in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, Africa faces one of the worst refugee crisis of the generation. [23] When entire communities are forced to move during climate change migration there is a lack of access to lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services and programs. [ 24 ]
[1] The Criminal Code permits abortion if the pregnancy threatens the life or physical or mental health of the mother. It permits abortion up to a gestational age of fourteen weeks if the pregnancy resulted from rape or from sex with a girl under 16. An amendment to Section 235 criminalizes false claims of these grounds, with a sentence of ten ...
Because the delay in seeking care following safe or unsafe abortion is a cause for higher complications post abortion, there have been pushes to establish more access to family planning and post abortion care in Kenya. [16] Post abortion care tends to refer to emergency medical treatment, but also incorporates family planning for the patient. [13]