The role of auxiliary nurse-midwives and community health volunteers in expanding access to medical abortion in rural Nepal

Medical abortion was introduced in Nepal in
2009, but rural women’s access to medical abortion services remained
limited. We conducted a district-level operations research study to assess
the effectiveness of training 13 auxiliary nurse-midwives as medical
abortion providers, and 120 female community health volunteers as
communicators and referral agents for expanding access to medical abortion
for rural women. Interviews with service providers and women who received
medical abortion were undertaken and service statistics were analysed.

Source: Reproductive Health Matters - February 1, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mahesh Puri, Anand Tamang, Prabhakar Shrestha, Deepak Joshi Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research