ArticleGlobal public health2014
The politics of unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso: the interface of local norms and global public health practice.
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- Strengthening health system capacity for legal termination of pregnancy in Burkina Faso: A quasi-experimental evaluation in public health facilities.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Article
- Profil des utilisatrices et facteurs associés à la satisfaction des clientes de la qualité des soins après avortement au Burkina Faso: étude transversale menée dans six régions.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- What post-abortion care indicators don't measure: Global abortion politics and obstetric practice in Senegal.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- A Pill in the Lifeworld of Women in Burkina Faso: Can Misoprostol Reframe the Meaning of Abortion.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania.International journal for equity in health · 2019Review
- Building a transformative agenda for accountability in SRHR: lessons learned from SRHR and accountability literatures.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2019Review
- Accounting for abortion: Accomplishing transnational reproductive governance through post-abortion care in Senegal.Global public health · 2018Article
- "Right tool," wrong "job": Manual vacuum aspiration, post-abortion care and transnational population politics in Senegal.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
- Predictors of abortions in Rural Ghana: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Metrics of Survival: Post-Abortion Care and Reproductive Rights in Senegal.Medical anthropologyArticle
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Abstract
In Burkina Faso, abortion is legally restricted and socially stigmatised, but also frequent. Unsafe abortions represent a significant public health challenge, contributing to the country's very high maternal mortality ratio. Inspired by an internationally disseminated public health framing of unsafe abortion, the country's main policy response has been to provide post-abortion care (PAC) to avert deaths from abortion complications. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article describes how Burkina Faso's PAC policy emerged at the interface of political and moral negotiations between public health professionals, national bureaucrats and international agencies and NGOs. Burkinabè decision-makers and doctors, who are often hostile to induced abortion, have been convinced that PAC is 'life-saving care' which should be delivered for ethical medical reasons. Moreover, by supporting PAC they not only demonstrate compliance with international standards but also, importantly, do not have to contend with any change in abortion legislation, which they oppose. Rights-based international NGOs, in turn, tactically focus on PAC as a 'first step' towards their broader institutional objective to secure safe abortion and abortion rights. Such negotiations between national and international actors result in widespread support for PAC but stifled debate about further legalisation of abortion.
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