Moving from Research to Program-The Egyptian Postabortion Care Initiative

The authors describe the evolution of a project that sought to improve the standard of care for women with abortion complications in a country where abortion is a highly sensitive topic. They report on the problems the project faced as it shifted from a research focus to a national program with a cl...

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Published in:Policy File 2003
Main Authors: Huntington, Dale, Nawar, Laila
Format: Report
Language:English
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Alan Guttmacher Institute
Health care policy
Reproductive health
Women
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Summary:The authors describe the evolution of a project that sought to improve the standard of care for women with abortion complications in a country where abortion is a highly sensitive topic. They report on the problems the project faced as it shifted from a research focus to a national program with a clinical focus-such as the difficulty of building trust and support among clinicians and in the government bureaucracy-and on continuing obstacles, such as government refusal to allow the importation of manual vacuum aspiration instruments needed to treat women presenting with an incomplete abortion.