CONTENTS

          Chapters
  1. Women's Lives At Risk
  2. Planning Care to Save Women's Lives
  3. Complete Care: Providing Family Planning
  4. Appropriate Care: MVA and Local Anesthesia
  5. Prompt Care: Referral and Decentralization

HIGHLIGHTS

Population Reports is published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4012, USA


Volume XXV, Number 1
September, 1997
 Complete Care:
     Providing Family Planning

Linking emergency postabortion care with family planning and other reproductive health services is crucial if women are to avoid future unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Few clinics or hospitals, however, offer women family planning counseling and services. Ensuring that family planning counseling and services are offered to all women treated for complications of unsafe abortion usually is one of the most immediate ways to improve postabortion care.

Most women who have risked their health and even their lives undergoing unsafe abortion want to avoid pregnancy (33, 161, 209, 228, 236, 282, 287). When family planning counseling and services are offered to women treated for abortion complications, many begin using a contraceptive method. Family planning counseling, always important, is indispensable for women who have been treated for abortion complications because they often need to address broader issues than choosing a contraceptive method (107).


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