Utilisateur:GastelEtzwane/avortement non médicalisé
L'avortement non médicalisé est une des causes principales de mortalité maternelle et de morbidité dans le monde, principalement dans les pays en voie de développement (95% des avortements non médicalisés ont lieu dans les pays en voie de développement).
Every year 40 million induced abortions occur globally (IPAS) and according to the 2000 estimates (WHO) 19 million unsafe abortions take place each year. According to WHO around 68,000 women die as a result of complications of unsafe abortion and between two million and seven million women each year survive unsafe abortion but sustain long-term damage or disease (incomplete abortion, infection (sepsis), haemorrhage and injury to the internal organs, such as puncturing or tearing of the uterus).(IPAS) According to WHO statistics, one in ten pregnancies ends in an unsafe abortion. The risk rate for unsafe abortion is 1/270, but according to other sources unsafe abortion is responsible for one in eight maternal deaths.
In order to limit the number of death caused by unsafe abortion, WHO recommendations are: priority for prevention of unplanned pregnancies, followed by improving the quality of abortion services and of post-abortion care (when safe abortion services are not available, services to treat the complications of unsafe abortion can consume up to 50% of hospital resources).
- Unsafe abortion in the world
- where abortion is illegal: Abortion law
- where abortion is legal, but there is lack of provision of medical services
| Unsafe Abortion: Mortality and Risk Estimates of Death data from WHO press, Geneva, 1997 | ||
| Unsafe Abortion Risk of Dying | (Unsafe Abortion)/(Maternal Deaths)* 100 | |
| Africa | 1 in 150 | 13% |
| Asia* | 1 in 250 | 12% |
| Latin America | 1 in 900 | 21% |
| Europe** | 1 in 1900 | 17% |
| * Excludes Japan, Australia and New Zealand ** Primarily Eastern Europe | ||
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- "Pro-Life Nation" by Jack Hitt,New York Times, 9 April, 2006. An article exploring the current situation in El Salvador.