COVID-19 pandemic exacerbation of disparities in access to public abortion services in Mexico
Elizabeth Kravitz,
Biani Saavedra-Avendaño,
Blair G Darney
Abstract:BackgroundWe describe clients in Mexico City’s public abortion programme, Interrupción Legal de Embarazo (ILE), during the COVID-19 pandemic and test whether the pandemic exacerbated inequities in access.MethodsWe conducted a cohort study of all abortions in the ILE programme from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2022. We compared patients from within and outside the Mexico City Metropolitan area (ZMVM) by pandemic stage (pre-, acute-, mid- and late-COVID periods) and assessed changes in client characteristics (adole… Show more
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