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In light of the recent ruling of the US Supreme Court overturning abortion rights, and drawing inspiration from a case came to his observation of hemorrhagic shock complicating an illegal abortion, the author briefly comments on the health, ethical, political and economic aspects that the denial of the right to terminate pregnancy entails for women, health care professionals and for the society as a whole.

OBJECTIVE:  To identify the barriers to provide to women and adequately train physicians on therapeutic abortions in public hospitals in Peru. METHODS:  Descriptive cross-sectional survey-based study. We invited 400 obstetrics and gynecology specialists from 7 academic public hospitals in Lima and 8 from other regions of Peru. Expert judges validated the survey. RESULTS:  We collected survey results from 160 participants that met the inclusion criteria...

INTRODUCTION: It is thought that both individuals are affected psychologically and sexually in couples experiencing abortion. In addition to the stress caused by infertility, sexual life may also be negatively affected in couples who experience psychogenic wear, such as abortion and curettage. The aim of this study is to evaluate male sexual functions in infertile couples with a history of abortion and male infertility component. METHODS: Five hundred forty-seven male patients' data were evaluated retrospectively...

The study aimed to identify the most frequent barriers in access to abortions in both clandestine and legal clinical contexts, from the perspective of accompanying persons, namely feminist activists who accompanied women that opted for voluntary abortions with medication. We performed 14 semi-structured interviews with accompanying persons in three regions of Mexico: Baja California and Chiapas, both of which are restrictive contexts, and Mexico City, where elective abortion is legal up to 12 weeks' gestational age...

OBJECTIVE: to understand the health needs that emerge on the path followed toward legal abortion by women who have suffered sexual violence. METHOD: an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study, whose theoretical framework was the conceptual field of Collective Health, based on the Marxian conception of needs. The study participants were ten women who requested legal abortion at a reference service located in São Paulo. A semi-structured interview script was used for data collection...

Abortion is supplied by the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS) in cases allowed under the prevailing legislation. The current study seeks to map and characterize the supply and performance of this procedure in Brazil in 2019. Data included the Referral Services for Termination of Pregnancy Authorized by Law (SRIGCPL) recorded in the National Registry of Healthcare Establishments (SCNES) and the establishments with records of abortion for medical and legal reasons in the Outpatient Information System and Hospital Information System...

Hot-iron disbudding of calves is a stressful and painful procedure and leaves a burn wound. Pain management procedures and the effects of hot-iron disbudding on biochemical markers of pain perception and stress response have been widely investigated in recent years. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential effects of pain management and age of the calf on the healing of burn wounds caused by disbudding. 327 healthy female German Holstein calves were included in this randomised, triple-blinded, prospective study...

Abortion as allowed by law in Brazil is a right that is rarely enforced, due to the multiple barriers to access. Another troublesome issue related to the health system's organization is the difficulty in obtaining reliable and easily accessible records to back monitoring and evaluation of legally authorized abortion. The current study thus aimed to analyze the patient records of women that had undergone legal abortion in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, from 2013 to 2018 and to identify the procedure's prevalence in the Hospital Information System (SIH)...

Data on unsafe abortions are scarce, and estimates based on hospitalizations have pointed to a decline in recent years. The study aimed to analyze the time trend in unsafe abortions in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2008 to 2017. We used secondary data on hospitalizations in the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS) due to complications of abortion in childbearing-age women (CAW) 15 to 44 years of age. We applied indirect estimation with a correction factor based on national and state data...

Introduction: Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen that may cause infections in humans such as meningitis, meningoencephalitis, and septicemia, as well as abortions. By serological typing 13 serotypes have been identified of which 4b is responsible for most of the outbreaks in the world. Objective: To determine the frequency and distribution of serotypes and molecular subtypes of L. monocytogenes isolated in Colombia from food from 2010 to 2018. Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective and descriptive study based on the analysis of 2,420 isolates confirmed as L...

OBJECTIVE:  To evaluate the factors associated with abortion complications following the implementation of the good-practice surveillance network Mujeres en Situación de Aborto (Women Undergoing Abortion, MUSA, in Spanish). METHODS:  A cross-sectional study with women who underwent abortion due to any cause and in any age group at UNICAMP Women's Hospital (part of MUSA network), Campinas, Brazil, between July 2017 and Agust 2019. The dependent variable was the presence of any abortion-related complications during hospitalization...

The scope of this study was to identify and analyze the social representations of abortion for gynecologists and obstetricians. The methodology used was the Semi-Structured Interview with 20 gynecologists and obstetricians (10 males and 10 females) from 34 to 67 years of age, who worked in hospitals in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte in the State of Minas Gerais. The results showed that abortion is recurrent in the daily routine of the interviewees, mobilizing the elaboration of social representations that help them to make it a familiar topic...

Abortion is still a public health problem in Brazil and is among the leading causes of maternal death. Socially vulnerable women have the greatest risk of death from abortion. The Brazilian Ministry of Health determined mandatory investigation of deaths of childbearing-age women with discussion of maternal deaths by Maternal Mortality Committees, aimed at identifying failures in management of cases that led to or determined the deaths. In the city of Rio de Janeiro, this structure is organized in a Municipal Committee and ten Regional Commissions for Prevention and Control of Maternal Mortality...

The present case corresponds to a woman with history of three miscarrieges less than10 weeks and breast cancer, who develops severe digital ischemia after the second cycle of capecitabine. Positive antiphospholipid antibodies were determined. Patients with obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome have an increased risk of developing cancer, and severe digital ischemia could be an unusual form of presentation of the antiphospholipid syndrome in patients with cancer. This case is presented to highlight the benefit of researching and making an early diagnosis of these characteristics of the disease...

Campylobacter fetusfetus (Cff) is a major infectious cause of abortion in sheep worldwide, and an opportunistic human pathogen. Information on Cff as an ovine abortifacient in South America is limited. We describe a case of abortion caused by a multidrug resistant strain of Cff in a sheep in Uruguay. In August 2017, 3/57 pregnant ewes (5.3%) aborted whithin one week. Histopathologic examination of the placenta of an aborted ewe revealed severe neutrophilic and fibrinonecrotizing placentitis with vasculitis and thrombosis of the chorionic arterioles...

The article presents the results of a study on the experiences of adolescents that decided to terminate a pregnancy in the context of legal abortion services in Montevideo, Uruguay, from 2016 to 2018. The main objective was to examine the decision-making process and access to legal abortion from the perspective of the adolescent girls themselves. This involved analyzing circumstances, motives, and persons that influenced the decision and the ways this was handled in the health services. A cross-sectional, exploratory, and descriptive study was designed, based on a qualitative methodology...

OBJECTIVE:  To find out which was the opinion of residents in obstetrics and gynecology about the advantages and disadvantages of medical abortion as compared with surgical procedures. METHOD:  Cross-sectional multicenter study among residents in obstetrics and gynecology from 21 maternity hospitals located in 4 different geographical regions of Brazil, using a self-responded questionnaire with 31 questions related to their opinion and experience on providing abortion services...

OBJECTIVE:  The aim of this study was to verify the existence of conscientious objection to comprehensive health care for the victim of sexual violence, as well as to understand the service structure of institutions authorized in the health care system for victims of sexual violence in the state of Minas Gerais. METHODS:  This is a quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical field study aiming to collect data from institutions authorized to assist victims of sexual violence in the state...

If universal health coverage (UHC) cannot be achieved without the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of the population being met, what then is the current situation vis-à-vis universal coverage of SRH services, and the extent to which SRH services have been prioritised in national UHC plans and processes? This was the central question that guided this critical review of more than 200 publications between 2010 and 2019. The findings are the following. The Essential Package of Healthcare Services (EPHS) across many countries excludes several critical SRH services (e...

Medical or drug-induced abortion has been proven as an effective means for termination of pregnancy. However, training of providers in the use of misoprostol has been limited. The current article aims to identify the degree of knowledge on medical abortion among Brazilian medical residents in Gynecology and Obstetrics. A multicenter cross-sectional study was performed with residents regularly enrolled in residency programs in Gynecology and Obstetrics in 21 teaching hospitals. A self-responded questionnaire was used...