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Perceptions in Reproductive Medicine

A Non-Systematic Bibliographical Review: Barriers and Facilitators for Access to Legal Abortion in Low and Middle Income Countries

  • open or close Freddy Barrrios Arroyave*

    Department of Community Health, Autonomous University, USA

    *Corresponding author: Freddy Barrios Arroyave, Medical Epidemiologist Master in Sexual and Reproductive Health Universidad El Bosque, Professor, Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Colombia, USA

Submission: January 06, 2018;Published: May 04, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/PRM.2018.02.000528

ISSN: 2640-9666
Volume2 Issue1

Abstract

Worldwide, it is estimated that 2.4 million maternal deaths occurred between 2003 and 2009, of which 7.9% were caused by abortion complications, almost all of them in low and middle income countries as result of unsafe procedures [1]. Maternal mortality and morbidity rates have significant declined after the legalization of abortion [2]. In countries like Nepal, where abortion decriminalization in 2002 was followed by an early decline of 40% in septic abortions and later by a reduction of 30% in overall serious complications of unsafe abortion such as serious infections, injury to the reproductive system and systemic complications [3].

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