Title:
Causes And Impact of Unsafe Abortion in Nigeria
Authors:
Abbas, Yau Garba
Year:
2014
PAGE:
vi, 46
Language:
En
Subject:
Maternal Health – Lessons Learned
Keywords:
Unsafe abortion, Nigeria, Unplanned Pregnancy
Abstract:
Background: Nigeria is one of the countries with the highest maternal mortality in the world and a significant proportion of it has been attributed to unsafe abortion. There are several factors that expose women to the risk of unsafe abortion like; unplanned pregnancy and for various reasons the pregnancy becomes unwanted. Unsafe abortion can have several health consequences from short term of bleeding, sepsis or perforation of the uterus to the long term of chronic pelvic pains or secondary infertility. Methodology: Literature review of articles, data and reports on unsafe abortion using search engines like PubMed, Google and Google Scholar. Results: Several factors are responsible for unplanned pregnancy like; lack of sexual education in schools, early sexual debut, sexual violence, and unmet need for contraception. Financial constraints, being single, not ready for motherhood, rape and the like have been identified as some of the reasons that force women to seek abortion. Legal restrictions, poverty, failures of the health system are some of the main factors that make abortion unsafe in Nigeria. Conclusion and recommendation: Women continue to procure dangerous abortions being unaware of the health, social and legal consequences. And it continues to threaten the lives of so many young women in the country. Most of these young women are single and in schools. The effort should be made to expand the legal indications for abortion. Meanwhile healthcare workers need to be trained to deliver qualitative abortion and post abortion care. The community, nurses and midwives need resources to sensitize and promote uptake of contraception as one of the measures to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
,
VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Institute:
KIT (Royal Tropical Institue)
Department:
Development Policy & Practice
Country:
Nigeria
Region:
West Africa
Training:
Master of Public Health / International Course in Health Development (ICHD)
Category:
Research
Right:
© 2014 Abbas
Document type:
Thesis/dissertation
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