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Post ABORTION CARE is an approach for reducing morbidity and mortality from incomplete and unsafe abortion and its complications. The international community recognizes unsafe abortion as a serious public-health problem. The expanded and updated POST ABORTION CARE model Adds partnership with the community.
Post ABORTION CARE is an approach for reducing morbidity and mortality from incomplete and unsafe abortion and its complications. The international community recognizes unsafe abortion as a serious public-health problem. The expanded and updated POST ABORTION CARE model Adds partnership with the community.
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Post ABORTION CARE is an approach for reducing morbidity and mortality from incomplete and unsafe abortion and its complications. The international community recognizes unsafe abortion as a serious public-health problem. The expanded and updated POST ABORTION CARE model Adds partnership with the community.
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reducing morbidity and mortality from incomplete and unsafe abortion and its complications and for improving women's sexual and reproductive health and lives Post abortion care and the international community The international community recognizes unsafe abortion as a serious public-health problem
Endorses the need to ensure women's access to PAC
PAC can save women's lives and its an important part of any Safe Motherhood initiative.
Numerous global agencies call on governments and health
systems to take action to support the timely provision of PAC services, United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994;
Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, China in 1995;
Components of post abortion care first articulated by IPAS in 1991
The original PAC model had three components:
Emergency treatment services for complications of
spontaneous or unsafe abortion.
Post abortion family planning counseling and services
Links between emergency abortion treatment services
and comprehensive reproductive health care The expanded and updated post abortion care model Adds partnership with the community as an essential element
Counseling to identify and respond to women's emotional and
physical health needs and other concerns
Treatment of incomplete and unsafe abortion and complications
that are potentially life-threatening
Contraceptive and family planning services to help women
prevent an unwanted pregnancy or practice birth spacing
Linkage to reproductive and other health services that are
Available in the hospital The role of community participation Education about the risks and consequences of unsafe abortion
Participation by community members in decisions about which
sexual and reproductive health services are offered
Education about and promotion of human rights-based sexual and
reproductive health services, including PAC
Education to increase family planning and contraceptive use
(preventing unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion)
Education about the signs and symptoms of post abortion
complications to promote appropriate care-seeking behaviors
Mobilization of community resources to ensure that women
suffering from incomplete abortion receive the care they need Emergency post abortion care services For treatment of incomplete and unsafe abortion
Resuscitation
Manual vacuum aspiration
Antibiotics
Blood transfusion
Analgesia
Laparotomy/laparoscopy The aims of counseling:
Solicit and affirm women's feelings and provide
emotional support
Ensure that women receive appropriate
answers to their questions
Help women clarify their thoughts about their
pregnancy, incomplete abortion, treatment, resumption of ovulation and reproductive health future
Address other concerns women may have
post abortion family planning counseling and services Ensure that patients receive information and counseling on post abortion contraception (including emergency contraception) before leaving the hospital.
All methods of contraception can be considered for use after
abortion
Contraception should be started early after an abortion
Diaphragm and cervical cap should be delayed till 6 weeks after a
2nd trimester abortion
There is high risk of expulsion of intra uterine device and risk of
infection if inserted at the time of 2nd trimester abortion. (delay for 3 months if infection is present). Linkage to reproductive and other health services : This encourages providing post abortion women with reproductive and other health services present in the hospital.
STI/HIV prevention education, screening, diagnosis and treatment
screening for sexual and/or domestic violence, and referral for