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  • Roe v. Wade in Peril
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Reproductive Health Impact Study
  • Adding It Up
  • Abortion Worldwide
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
  • State legislation tracker

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  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Global

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

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  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

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Africa

Most of Guttmacher Institute’s work in Africa concentrates on Sub-Saharan Africa. Studies have estimated the incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy; presented age-specific abortion rates and rates for sexually active adolescents; documented the severity of complications from unsafe abortion; assessed the quality, costs and reach of postabortion care; examined sexuality education; and explored the use of misoprostol from informal sources for abortion. A comprehensive monograph also summarized the body of evidence on unintended pregnancy and abortion in the region.

The Institute's ongoing Adding It Up project provides estimates (regional, subregional and country-specific) of the needs for modern contraception, maternal and newborn care, and abortion-related services for low- and middle-income countries. This work also estimates the costs and impacts of meeting these needs, providing policymakers throughout Africa with evidence that investment in improving and increasing the provision of sexual and reproductive health services saves lives, improves women’s health and well-being, and has broad societal benefits. 

In addition, the Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide study has produced model-based estimates of the incidence of unintended pregnancy and abortion for all African countries and territories over the period 1990–2019. Such estimates provide an opportunity to assess trends in unintended pregnancy and abor­tion over time for individual countries and territories, as well as regionally and globally.

Explore data and resources for 55 African countries using the “Select a country profile” box on this page.

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  • News Release

    Guttmacher Institute Releases Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles for More Than 130 Countries

  • Fact Sheet

    Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide

  • Report

    From Unsafe to Safe Abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa: Slow but Steady Progress

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 487,000

    HIV-infected women in Sub-Saharan Africa do not receive medicine to prevent mother-to-child transmission every year
  • 80%

    reduction in unintended pregnancies if all unmet need for modern contraception were satisfied in Africa
  • 3 in 4

    surveyed Ghanaian students aged 15–17 are taught to not have sex before marriage

Resources

  • December 2020 Fact Sheet

    Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Western Africa

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • December 2020 Fact Sheet

    Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • December 2020 Fact Sheet

    Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Southern Africa

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • December 2020 News Release

    New study finds women in Lagos, Nigeria effectively self-manage medication abortions

    Global

    • Abortion
  • Self-Managed Misoprostal Abortions in Nigeria
    December 2020 Fact Sheet

    Women’s Experiences with Self-Managed Misoprostol Abortions in Lagos State, Nigeria

    Global

    • Abortion
  • October 2020 Fact Sheet

    Severe Maternal Outcomes and Obstetric Care in Kenya

    Global

    • Pregnancy
  • September 2020 Research Article

    Prevalence and Correlates of Perceived Infertility in Ghana

    Chelsea Polis, Easmon Otupiri, Michelle J. Hindin, Doris W. Chiu, Sarah Keogh, Cara Aidoo, Roderick Larsen-Reindorf and Suzanne Bell,Studies in Family Planning

    United States

    • Pregnancy

    Global

  • September 2020 Research Article

    Classroom implementation of national sexuality education curricula in four low- and middle-income countries

    Sarah Keogh, Ellie Leong, Angélica Motta, Estelle M. Sidze, Ana Silvia Monzón and Joshua Amo-Adjei,Sex Education

    Global

    • Teens
  • September 2020 Fact Sheet

    Costs of Postabortion Care in Senegal

    Global

    • Abortion
  • September 2020 Research Article

    Incidence of maternal near-miss in Kenya in 2018: findings from a nationally representative cross-sectional study in 54 referral hospitals

    Onikepe Owolabi, Taylor Riley, Kenneth Juma , Michael M. Mutua, Zoe H. Pleasure , Joshua Amo-Adjei and Martin Bangha,Nature Research

    Global

    • Pregnancy

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Ethiopia is one of only a handful of countries to eliminate barriers to legal abortion specifically for adolescents. As a result, young women are more likely to access safe abortion care than any other age-group there.

Elizabeth A. Sully

Senior Research Scientist
Guttmacher Institute
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