Rights and Responsibilities: Healthy Pregnancies, Contraception and Abortion - Africa
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Africa resources
Fact sheets
Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [PDF version]
October 2008
Facts About the Unmet Need For Contraception in Developing Countries [PDF]
July 2007
Facts on Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Nigeria [PDF]
June 2006
Highlighted policy articles
Making the Case for a 'Contraceptive Convenience' Agenda [PDF version]
Sneha Barot
Guttmacher Policy Review, October 2008
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Role of Contraception in Preventing HIV [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, February 2008
New Data on Abortion Incidence, Safety Illuminate Key Aspects of Worldwide Abortion Debate [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, November 2007
Young People Need Help in Preventing Pregnancy and HIV; How Will the World Respond [PDF version]
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review, August 2007
Toward Making Abortion 'Rare': The Shifting Battleground over the Means to an End [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Working to Eliminate the World's Unmet Need for Contraception [PDF version]
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review, March 2006
Global Gag Rule: Exporting Antiabortion Ideology at the Expense of American Values [PDF version]
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, June 2001
"In Brief"
Reducing Unsafe Abortion in Nigeria [PDF]
November 2008
Unsafe Abortion in Kenya [PDF]
November 2008
Reducing Unintended Pregnancy in Nigeria [PDF]
September 2005
Reducing Unintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [PDF]
March 2005
Highlighted research articles
Legal Abortion Worldwide: Incidence and Recent Trends [PDF version]
Gilda Sedgh, Stanley K.Henshaw, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Joanna Drescher
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2007
The Incidence of Induced Abortion in Uganda [PDF version]
Susheela Singh, Elena Prada, Florence Mirembe and Charles Kiggundu
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2005
Reports
Women with an Unmet Need for Contraception in Developing Countries and Their Reasons for Not Using a Method [PDF]
Gilda Sedgh, Rubina Hussain, Akinrinola Bankole and Susheela Singh
July 2007
Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Uganda: Causes and Consequences [PDF]
Susheela Singh, Ann M. Moore, Akinrinola Bankole, Florence Mirembe, Deirdre Wulf and Elena Prada
November 2006
Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Nigeria: Causes and Consequences [PDF]
Akinrinola Bankole, Boniface A. Oye-Adeniran, Susheela Singh, Isaac F. Adewole, Deirdre Wulf, Gilda Sedgh and Rubina Hussain
August 2006
Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action [PDF]
March 2006
Abortion and Postabortion Care in Uganda: A Report from Health Care Professionals and Health Facilities [PDF]
Elena Prada, Florence Mirembe, Fatima H. Ahmed, Rose Nalwadda and Charles Kiggundu
May 2005
Sharing Responsibility: Women Society and Abortion Worldwide [PDF]
June 1999
Slide shows
Abortion: Worldwide Levels and Trends
October 2007
New Evidence to Address the Unmet Need for Contraception
July 2007
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