International health
'I chose to keep it secret:' a qualitative study on the lived experience of women who underwent an abortion in Ethiopia.
Tegenu Balcha, Elias Yadeta, Abraham Negash, Magarsa Lami, Kasiye Shiferaw, Mekitie Wondafrash
Published: 202510.1093/inthealth/ihaf146
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, despite a decline in abortion-related mortality over the past decade, substantial challenges persist in ensuring universal safe abortion access. The lived experiences of women who underwent abortion are not well understood in…
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