postabortion-care

• Making Strides in Postabortion Care Provision in Rwanda

  Miscarriages and unsafe induced abortions are a worldwide health problem, resulting in the death of close to 70,000 women each year*. Postabortion care (PAC) is a strategy to address this problem by treating women with complications, providing family planning to prevent unintended pregnancy, and...

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• Enhancing Postabortion Care (PAC) Counseling Skills: An Interactive Learning Tool

  Enhancing Postabortion Care (PAC) Counseling Skills: An Interactive Learning Tool ,  PRIME II The interactive simulations in this DVD package aim to enhance or refresh the counseling skills of experienced PAC providers. To order, please contact Nola Bower-Smith . Transcripts of the...

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• Enhancing Postabortion Care Counseling Skills—An Interactive Learning Tool

  Complications from unsafe abortion result in the deaths of about 74,000 women each year*. IntraHealth developed the DVD Enhancing Postabortion Care Counseling Skills—An Interactive Learning Tool to enhance or refresh the counseling skills of experienced providers of postabortion care...

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• Voices from the Field: Scaling-Up Postabortion Care Services

  “The other sisters were against postabortion care services until they saw the way a client presented herself, bleeding and in pain. Following the procedure the patient was very happy and cured. Now the sisters have changed their minds.” Trained in postabortion care (PAC)...

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• Voices from the Field: Increasing The Use Of Postabortion Family Planning

  “There are 40- to 45-year-old women who don’t know anything about contraception and they have children who are adolescents already. What will they tell them? One woman asked me during counseling: ’Where have you been with your family planning methods when I was having my...

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• Voices from the Field: Building A Model For Community-Level Postabortion Care

  “I can say that I saved a life. I treated a woman who was bleeding profusely. She was worried and her parents were worried. Performing MVA and rapidly stabilizing her with an IV gave confidence to the woman, and she thanked me a lot for having saved her life.” Through the...

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• Voices from the Field: Linking Family Planning With Postabortion Care

   “Postabortion care is helping very much. It has improved the management of clients, not only those with incomplete abortion but also others… People have understood about family planning, and my records show an increase in the number of family planning clients.” ...

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• Voices from the Field: Breakthrough Conference On Postabortion Care In Francophone Africa

  “The environment has changed tremendously in this region. When I joined this organization, you couldn’t even pronounce the words ‘family planning’ in our region. Now we’ve just completed a very successful conference attended by representatives from 17 countries...

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• Voices from the Field: Expanding Postabortion Care

  “They care for you because you have treated them. They need your services. You become friends and they feel they can tell you their secrets.” For Agnes Thamaine, community outreach and close relationships with clients are essential to her profession. Thamaine, a private...

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