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The Health System Cost of Postabortion Care in Uganda
Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2014How much does treating complications resulting from abortion procedures cost? In Uganda, postabortion care costs an estimated $13.9 million per year. The costs would go up to $20.8 million per year, if all women had access to such care services.DocumentExplaining the large disparities in health in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013Despite the complexity and challenges in attribution of what causes good or ill health, this policy note argues that there are obvious key factors that can explain health disparities between the poor and the nonpoor in the Philippines. Key factors include:DocumentOpportunities for making health financing and services more inclusive in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013Growth does not automatically translate to more inclusive health services. Traditional trickle-down economics is too hopeful as a prescription for the reduction of poverty and social inequity.DocumentThe puzzle of economic growth and stalled health improvement in the Philippines
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013The Philippine economy has grown respectably in the past few years, but the overall health status indicators have not markedly improved commensurate with that growth.DocumentChild undernutrition in Kenya: trend analyses from 1993 to 2008-09
BMC Medicine, 2014Background: Research on trends in child undernutrition in Kenya has been hindered by the challenges of changing criteria for classifying undernutrition, and an emphasis in the literature on international comparisons of countries’ situations. There has been little attention to within-country trend analyses.DocumentYouth and abortion: key strategies and promising practices for increasing young women's access to abortion services
International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2014Abortion is often portrayed in a one-dimensional way, primarily focusing on abortions of unwanted pregnancies. But abortion also affects education, professional careers and family life.DocumentUnintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines: Context and Consequences
Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2013How can reproductive health services improve in the Philippines? Although the government has enhanced access to contraceptive services, abortion is still illegal under all circumstances and about 1000 women die each year from complications of unsafe abortions.DocumentLinking Poverty, Food Sovereignty And Security, And Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights
2014Why must Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) be a priority for the Post-2015 Development Agenda? SRHR is interlinked with areas such as gender, health, education and the environment and only if SRHR is considered for relevant goals and targets, these broader areas can be adequately addressed.Document20 Years after Cairo: Women: Continue to reproduce but never mind about Sexuality
Realising Sexual and Reproductive Justice, 2014What have been the achievements and challenges for sexual and reproductive health since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo?DocumentAbortion Laws and Sexual Violence
Center for Reproductive Rights, 2013When sexual violence results in pregnancy, women and girls must often face the risk of unsafe abortions and suffer severe mental and physical traumas in countries with restrictive abortion laws. This briefing paper from the Center for Reproductive Rights highlights the consequences sexual violence can have on women’s physical and mental health.Pages