Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report

Despite the implementation of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act, many women continue to procure illegal abortions in South Africa. A lack of knowledge of the CTOP Act and poor access to legal abortion in public health facilities is a big challenge. In the scope of the CTOP Act, the t...

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Autor principal: Kaswa, Ramprakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2021
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Scientific Letters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33567837
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5028
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description Despite the implementation of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act, many women continue to procure illegal abortions in South Africa. A lack of knowledge of the CTOP Act and poor access to legal abortion in public health facilities is a big challenge. In the scope of the CTOP Act, the termination of pregnancy is a time-restricted health service, and women presented to a health care facility in the second trimester have encounter more obstacles to access the services.
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spelling pubmed-83781012021-09-03 Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report Kaswa, Ramprakash S Afr Fam Pract (2004) Scientific Letters Despite the implementation of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act, many women continue to procure illegal abortions in South Africa. A lack of knowledge of the CTOP Act and poor access to legal abortion in public health facilities is a big challenge. In the scope of the CTOP Act, the termination of pregnancy is a time-restricted health service, and women presented to a health care facility in the second trimester have encounter more obstacles to access the services. AOSIS 2021-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8378101/ /pubmed/33567837 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5028 Text en © 2021. The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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title Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report
title_full Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report
title_fullStr Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report
title_short Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report
title_sort barriers to access second-trimester abortion: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378101/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5028
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