Características sócio-demográficas, reprodutivas e médicas de mulheres admitidas por aborto em hospital da Região Sul do Brasil

No Brasil, a indução do aborto é legalmente permitida somente quando necessária para salvar a vida da mulher ou quando a concepção ocorreu de estupro. Apesar das restrições legais, morais e religiosas, a indução do aborto é amplamente praticada. Com o objetivo de identificar as características do aborto incompleto nas mulheres admitidas na maternidade pública de Florianópolis, foram entrevistadas 620 mulheres, entre 1o de julho de 1993 e 30 de junho de 1994. Com base em dados coletados por meio de questionário estruturado, são apresentadas características sócio-demográficas, reprodutivas e médicas dos abortos, classificados como certamente provocados, possivelmente provocados e espontâneos. Entre os 141 casos de aborto provocado, cerca de 50% das mulheres reportaram uso isolado do Cytotec® (misoprostol), ou deste associado a outro método abortivo. Os resultados revelam que na população estudada a indução do aborto é prática comum entre mulheres jovens, solteiras ou sem parceiro estável, de bom nível de escolaridade e não usuárias de métodos anticonceptivos. Foi também registrada uma redução do número de complicações graves relacionadas ao aborto provocado admitido ao hospital.

Aborto inducido en Colombia: nuevas estimaciones y cambios de 1989 a 2008

Si bien en 2006 la Corte Constitucional de Colombia despenalizó el aborto inducido bajo circunstancias selectas, ningún estudio en el país ha examinado si la incidencia del procedimiento ha cambiado con respecto a la única estimación nacional previa, la del 1989.

Aborto inducido y embarazo no planeado en Guatemala

Aunque la legislación guatemalteca permite el aborto inducido solamente para salvar la vida de la mujer, con frecuencia muchas mujeres obtienen abortos, en condiciones de riesgo, y en respuesta a un embarazo no planeado. Estudios recientes indican que el aborto inseguro es un factor clave que contribuye a la morbilidad y mortalidad materna en el país; sin embargo, no existen datos a nivel nacional sobre la incidencia del aborto.

Estimaciones de los costos de abortos inseguros para los sistemas de atención sanitaria en África y América Latina

Cada año ocurren 19 millones de abortos inseguros en los países en desarrollo y se estima que cinco millones de mujeres reciben tratamiento por complicaciones médicas graves resultantes. Entretanto, es poco lo que se conoce sobre el impacto económico de la atención postaborto en los sistemas de atención sanitaria en África y América Latina (en Asia no hay estudios)

Estimaciones del aborto inducido en México: ¿qué ha cambiado entre 1990 y 2006?

En México,donde el aborto inducido en gran parte continúa siendo ilegal y clandestino,contar con datos confiables sobre su incidencia y la morbilidad relacionada es crítico para fundamentar las políticas y programas.La única estimación nacional disponible sobre aborto es para 1990; y,desde entonces, los cambios demográficos y socioeconómicos probablemente han afectado su incidencia

El aborto en los Estados Unidos

Los datos presentados fuera de contexto y el uso de mitos en lugar de hechos son comunes en el debate en torno al aborto en los Estados Unidos. La desinformación se extiende incluso a las preguntas más básicas: ¿Quiénes son las mujeres que tienen abortos? ¿Por qué deciden terminar el embarazo? ¿Cuáles son sus circunstancias de vida? El Guttmacher Institute trata muchas de estas preguntas en su video en inglés “Abortion in the United States”, el cual ha recibido más de 82,000 visitas en YouTube desde que se lanzó en mayo de 2011. Nos complace poner a tu disposición esta herramienta informativa en español. El propósito del video “El aborto en los Estados Unidos” es asegurar que el debate en torno al aborto esté basado en evidencia rigurosa y situado en un contexto adecuado junto a temas relacionados, tales como el embarazo no planeado, el uso de anticonceptivos y la educación sexual.

IPPF Girl Decide: Turning Decisions into realities

Turning Decisions into Realities: Girls Journeys The Girls Decide films share the stories of six girls from around the world in their journeys to make informed decisions about sex, pregnancy, abortion and relationships. The Girls Decide films share the stories of girls from around the world in their journeys to make informed choices about sex, pregnancy and relationships. www.ippf.org

IPPF Girls Decide: Valeria's Journey, Argentina

Girls Decide: Valeria's Journey, Argentina This film follows the story of Valeria. She visits the Adolescents Centre where she tells a Youth Specialist that she might be pregnant. When she finds out that she is she is offered options about what to do. Valeria decides to have an abortion and is supported by her mother through the decision making process. Share the stories of girls from around the world in their journeys to make informed choices about sex, pregnancy and relationships. www.ippf.org

Think about it

Ipas Brazil's "Vai Pensando ai" video campaign challenges individuals' opinion about Brazil's restrictive abortion laws. Ipas works globally to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries.

Saving Young Lives: Pathfinder International’s Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Project

As many as 2.5 million adolescent women seek abortion each year, and nearly 70,000 women die from complications related to unsafe abortion, of which almost half are women under the age of 25. A further 5 million women suffer disability due to unsafe abortion yearly. In most developing countries, abortion is legally restricted or highly inaccessible, which leads young women to seek services from unskilled practitioners often leading to incomplete, septic abortions and massive bleeding, which can result in permanent injury, infertility, and death. Based on our deeply held belief that all people, including adolescents, have a right to sexual and reproductive health services and the importance of addressing adolescent needs within Postabortion Care (PAC) services, Pathfinder used private funds to initiate a Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care (YFPAC) program in eight sub-Saharan African countries. Implemented between June 2007 and May 2008, the YFPAC program offered an opportunity to apply the PAC Consortium’s Technical Guidance on Youth-Friendly PAC, generating promising approaches and lessons learned. The goal of the YFPAC initiative was to increase access to PAC services that are responsive to adolescent needs in sub-Saharan Africa. While outcomes varied according to the country, the overall outcomes included: Increased community support for services and activities that prevent unwanted pregnancy, decreased stigma around abortion, and awareness of the issue of unsafe abortion among adolescent women: 311 peer educators reached almost 17,487 youth and other community members; 171 stakeholders (e.g., religious and traditional leaders, health officials, and local government officials) were sensitized on YFPAC, resulting in a positive shift in communities’ attitudes toward youth in need of PAC services. 125 service providers were trained to deliver YFPAC services and three doctors in Ghana were provided with a technical update on YFPAC. YFPAC services are available in Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Pathfinder introduced YFPAC services into 25 facilities (in 27 service delivery points), and provided more than 3,800 clients with YFPAC services throughout the eight countries. The number of adolescent PAC clients seen at the project facilities increased— 710 clients were seen in the first quarter, 1,144 were seen in the fourth. The number of adolescent PAC clients who adopt a contraceptive method to prevent future unintended pregnancies has increased. Statistics show an average postabortion contraceptive acceptance of 69%, with the highest acceptance being 83% and the lowest being 44%. Evidence-based approaches, tools, and lessons learned are being disseminated and used for scale-up or replication of YFPAC interventions.

Indian street drama

Ipas India worked with Contact Base, a local organization, to develop street drama that highlights where and how safe abortion services, including medical abortion, can be obtained. Ipas works globally to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries

Servicios de aborto para las mujeres jóvenes: Un juego de herramientas para la capacitación

Documentos del juego de herramientas: Servicios de aborto para las mujeres jóvenes: un juego de herramientas para la capacitación; Presentación en PowerPoint de Servicios de aborto para las mujeres jóvenes; Servicios de aborto para las mujeres jóvenes: resultados y recomendaciones de la encuesta de evaluación de necesidades; Servicios de aborto para las mujeres jóvenes: revisión de la literatura; Ejemplo de un cartel; herramientas para el taller Recursos; Transformación de actitudes respecto al aborto: Un juego de herramientas para la aclaración de valores para audiencias mundiales, que incluye: Actividades adaptadas para mujeres jóvenes en situación de aborto; Capacitación eficaz en salud reproductiva: Diseño y ejecución del curso. Manual de referencia y Manual del capacitador; Explorando el tema de aborto: recopilación de actividades de autorreflexión y sensibilización para audiencias internacionales; La atención del aborto centrada en la mujer. Manual de referencia y Manual del capacitador

Dinámica de los derechos humanos en la reforma de las leyes del aborto

Traducción de "Human rights dynamics of abortion law reform" en: Human Rights Quarterly, 25(2003)1,p.1-59