ANSIRH research
ANSIRH research: International
In 2017, abortion in Chile was decriminalized. Now women can legally access abortion in cases of rape, lethal fetal anomaly, and to preserve a woman’s life.
This study is assessing whether future women’s health professionals in Chile welcome or are prepared for this legal change. A better understanding of their attitudes about and willingness to provide abortion is critical to identifying reproductive health training needs and the barriers that would need to be overcome if abortion were liberalized in Chile.
Read more...Inspired by the success of the Turnaway Study, the goal of this project is to launch a multi-country study to compare the consequences of legal abortion, illegal abortion, and carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term in a variety of settings.
Read more...Pain is often cited as one of the worst features of medication abortion, yet little is known about optimal pain management during the medication abortion process. Optimal pain management is important not only to improve quality of care for people undergoing medication abortion, but also to limit unnecessary clinical care visits that may result from inadequate pain management. ANSIRH is collaborating with researchers at the World Health Organization and in three countries, Nepal, Vietnam, and South Africa, to complete a randomized, placebo-controlled trial to identify effective methods for medication abortion pain control.
Read more...Approximately 50% of second-trimester abortion patients do not confirm they are pregnant until they are already in the second trimester. For people who are late to recognize the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, or who do not experience these symptoms, later recognition of pregnancy can delay seeking abortion care or lead to late entry into prenatal care. Researchers at ANSIRH are seeking to understand whether provision of free at-home pregnancy tests, coupled with routine text message reminders to test monthly, lead to people to confirm and seek care earlier in pregnancy.
Read more...Nearly half of the countries with liberal or liberally interpreted abortion laws had public funding for abortion, including most countries that liberalized their abortion law in the past 20 years. Outliers remain, however, including among developed countries where access to abortion may be limited due to affordability.
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