World leaders urged to improve access to safe abortion services

Source: Nestor Kafui Adjomah
12 August 2021

Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMeF), Raphael Godlove Ahenu, has called on world leaders to make safe abortion accessible to every woman who requests it.

According to him, “estimates from 2006 shows
that, in developing countries, the yearly cost for treating complications from
unsafe abortion amounts to US$ 553 million and US$ 6 billion for treating
post-abortion infertility across the world”.

Continued: https://www.myjoyonline.com/world-leaders-urged-to-improve-access-to-safe-abortion-services/

Zambia: Adolescents muse on reproductive health encounters

Adolescents muse on reproductive health encounters
May 23, 2017

LILLIAN BANDA, Lusaka

ONE of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 is that by 2030, the world should ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.

One of the proposed indicators of this target is that the proportion of women of reproductive age 15-49 years- should have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods.

Increased access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) information and services is key to reducing the number of girls becoming pregnant, leading to a reduction in the number of unsafe abortions among this age group, which according to expert reports, is mostly affected by unsafe abortions.

Continued at source: Daily Mail: https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/adolescents-muse-on-reproductive-health-encounters/

23.05.2017