Issues in Establishing Postabortion Care Services in Low-Resource Settings |
On 20 and 21 May 1999, JHPIEGO sponsored a workshop to explore issues in establishing postabortion care (PAC) in low-resource settings. The overall goal of the workshop was to reach agreement on a strategy for providing PAC services that could be adopted and implemented by organizations working in the PAC arena. The workshop had three objectives:
To share experiences and lessons learned in establishing PAC services
To critically review the framework outlined in the Strategy Paper Establishing Postabortion Care Services in Low-Resource Settings
To develop recommendations for strengthening the PAC strategy
Strategy Paper: Establishing Postabortion Care Services in Low-Resource Settings (Anita Ghosh, Enriquito R. Lu and Noel McIntosh)
Workshop Presentations
Postabortion Care Programs: A Global Update
(Sandra de Castro Buffington)Why a PAC Strategy?
(Anita Ghosh)Regional Postabortion Care Initiative—Health Networks: A Regional Approach to Improving Postabortion Care in East and Southern Africa (Michelle Folsom)
The Essential Role of The Community in Postabortion Care
(Phyllis Gestrin)Community Perspectives on Unsafe Abortion and Postabortion Care (Susan Settergren)
Decentralizing PAC Services: Insights from a Decade in Africa
(Khama Rogo)Postabortion Care to Avert Future Abortions
(Douglas Huber and Edith Bowles)Increasing Access, Improving Quality: Lessons Learned from Postabortion Care Programs (Sally Girvin)
Use of Misoprostol for the Management of Bleeding in Early Pregnancy (Frederik F. Broekhuizen)
Appendices
The JHPIEGO Corporation, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving the health of women and families throughout the world. Currently, JHPIEGO has three major awards:
To promote the survival of mothers and their newborns, the Maternal and Neonatal Health Program will increase the use of key maternal and neonatal health and nutrition practices and services in regions with high levels of maternal deaths.
Santé Familiale et Prévention du SIDA works to increase the availability and use of quality reproductive health services and strengthen the technical and management capacity of Africa partners.
The Training in Reproductive Health Project works to establish integrated (pre- and inservice) education and training systems to improve the performance of reproductive health professionals
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Editors: Anita Ghosh, Dana Lewison, Enriquito R. Lu
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Financial support was provided by the Office of Population, Center for Population, Health and Nutrition/Global Programs, Field Support and Research Bureau/CMT Division, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of Award No. HRN-A-00-98-00041-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of JHPIEGO and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID.
We would like to thank the USAID Support Strategic Objective 2 (SO2) Maternal Health Team and the Postabortion Care (PAC) Working Group for their contribution to the workshop. October 1999
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Internet e-mail: info@jhpiego.netOctober 1999