The Estimated Incidence of Induced Abortion in Ethiopia, 2008

Caring for Women with Abortion Complications in Ethiopia: National Estimates and Future Implications

“…A complete description of methods and results pertaining to the estimation of the incidence of induced abortion is provided in the article by Singh et al in this issue. 18 …”

Safe Abortion Care, Utilization of Post Abortion Contraception and associated Factors, Jimma Ethiopia

“…However, although in many countries governments are accelerating efforts to improve access to safe and elective abortion, such services and post abortion care have poor service quality, and are difficult for women to obtain [12]. In many countries that have made abortion broadly legal whether recently or decades ago administrative barriers of many kinds make it difficult to obtain a safe abortion [7].…”

The Incidence of Induced Abortion in Malawi

“…of induced abortions, abortion rate and abortion ratio among women aged 15-44, by multiplier, nationally and according mate abortion incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa have been conducted in the past few years in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Rwanda, and less recently in Nigeria and Uganda. 15,17,[25][26][27] All of these studies have included not only public-sector but also not-for-profit and private-sector facilities, thereby providing more comprehensive and accurate estimates of the number of women obtaining postabortion care, and, in turn, of overall abortion incidence. Abortions are likely to be highly unreported in studies that measure abortion incidence using direct techniques (such as interviewing women or providers), especially in settings where abortion is legally restricted.…”

“…The AICM has been widely used and found to yield robust estimates over time and across countries. This is the second study, after a prior analysis of Ethiopia, 15 to measure the number of women treated for postabortion care by combining two approaches: a Prospective Morbidity Survey that collects patient-specific data for a period of 2-4 weeks (30 days in the case of this study) and a Health Facilities Survey (the approach used by AICM studies), in which interviews with facility directors or other knowledgeable informants are used to obtain aggregate estimates of the number of women treated in each facility in the past month and in an average month. Use of these two different approaches produces a more robust estimate of this core input indicator for the estimation of abortion incidence, thus increasing one's confidence in the validity of the study results.…”