Buccal use of misoprostol alone for early abortion: the experience in four Latin American countries

Sayette, H.; Redwine, Dee; Sivin, I; Foster-Rosales, Anne; Cullins, Vanessa

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2011.05.131

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“…In a region of some of the most highly restrictive abortion laws, the use of misoprostol is now common in much of Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2007, misoprostol-only was used in an estimated 30% of abortions in Mexico and in over 50% of abortions in Colombia 32. This trend towards access to and use of self-managed misoprostol is similar in Africa where nearly 60% of those presenting for PAC in the second-largest hospital in Ghana reported using misoprostol 33…”

Section: Impact Of Increased Access To Medication Abortionmentioning

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First Trimester Abortion Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Henkel

Shaw

2021

Clinical Obstetrics &Amp; Gynecology

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Access to first trimester abortions has increased significantly in the past few decades in low and middle-income countries. Manual vacuum aspiration is now standard of care for procedural abortion and postabortion care. Medication abortion has shifted abortions to being performed earlier in pregnancy and is becoming more widely available with new service delivery strategies to broaden access. Widespread availability of misoprostol has made abortions induced outside of the formal medical sector overall safer. In both legally restrictive and supportive environments, there is increased interested in selfmanaged abortions as part of a shift towards demedicalizing abortion through task-sharing.

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Section: Impact Of Increased Access To Medication Abortionmentioning

confidence: 99%

First Trimester Abortion Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Henkel

Shaw

2021

Clinical Obstetrics &Amp; Gynecology

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“…11,12 Since then, knowledge and use of misoprostol by itself as a means of early pregnancy termination have grown throughout Latin America, as well as in other regions where abortion is legally restricted and mifepristone is unavailable. 13,14 Although use of misoprostol alone is less effective than its use with mifepristone, misoprostol-only abortions are nevertheless a safe, acceptable and effective means of early pregnancy termination. 6,15,16 In still other settings, women lack access to both misoprostol and mifepristone.…”

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