Self-managed abortion, or abortion self-care, is when a pregnant person obtains an abortion without supervision by a healthcare professional. Safe abortion self-care requires: Access to accurate information on the dosing, timing, how to manage pain, and when to seek further help; Access to medicines of reliable quality; Confirmation of success, and options for contraception. Abortions, miscarriages and births at home have a […]
Category: maternal health
Resurrecting a lost obstetric skill to reduce global maternal death
The incidence of having a baby in the bottom-down (“breech”) position at the end of pregnancy is about 1 in 25. The “Term Breech Trial” (TBT) is a landmark randomised controlled trial that changed the management of breech birth since its publication in 2000. It concluded that a planned Caesarean birth is safer for […]