Towards safe abortion access: an exploratory study of medical abortion in Cambodia
In 2010, following its approval by the Ministry
of Health, the medical abortion combination pack Medabon (containing
mifepristone and misoprostol) was made available at pharmacies and in a
restricted number of health facilities in Cambodia. The qualitative study
presented in this paper was conducted in 2012 as a follow-up to
longer-term ethnographical research related to reproductive health and
fertility regulation between 2008 and 2012. Observations were carried out
at several clinic and pharmacy sites and in-depth interviews were
conducted with a purposive sample of 20 women who attended two MSI
Cambodia centres and 10 women identified through social networks; six men
(women’s male partners); eight health care providers at the two MSI
centres and four pill sellers at private or informal pharmacies (who also
provided health care services in private clinics).
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Pascale Hancart Petitet, Leakhena Ith, Melissa Cockroft, Thérèse Delvaux Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
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