Reproductive Health
BioMed Central
Unsafe abortion requiring hospital admission in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea - a descriptive study of women’s and health care workers’ experiences
Lisa M Vallely, Primrose Homiehombo, [...], and Andrea Whittaker
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Abstract
Background
In Papua New Guinea induced abortion is restricted under the Criminal Code Law. Unsafe abortions are known to be widely practiced and sepsis due to unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal mortality.
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