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Eliminating the high abortion related complications and deaths in Cameroon: the restrictive legal atmosphere on abortions is no acceptable excuse

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Women's Health, May 2018
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Title
Eliminating the high abortion related complications and deaths in Cameroon: the restrictive legal atmosphere on abortions is no acceptable excuse
Published in
BMC Women's Health, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12905-018-0564-6
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Authors

Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Eugene Justine Kongnyuy

Abstract

The abortion law in Cameroon is highly restrictive. The law permits induced abortions only when the woman's life is at risk, to preserve her physical and mental health, and on grounds of rape or incest. Unsafe abortions remain rampant with however rare reported cases of persecution, even when these abortions are proven to have been carried out illegally. Available public health interventions are cheap and feasible (Misoprostol and Manual Vacuum Aspiration in post abortion care, modern contraception, post-abortion counseling), and must be implemented to reduce unacceptably high maternal mortality rates in the country which still stand at as high as 596/100.000. Changes in the legal status of abortions might take a long time to come by. Albeit, advocacy efforts must be reinforced to render the law more liberal to permit women to seek safe abortion services. The frequency of abortions, generally clandestine, in this restrictive legal atmosphere has adverse economic, health and social justice implications. We argue that a non-optimal or restrictive legal atmosphere is not an acceptable excuse to justify these high maternal deaths resulting from unsafe abortions, especially in Cameroon where unsafe abortions remain rampant. Implementing currently available, cheap and effective evidence based practice guidelines are possible in the country. Expansion and use of Manual Vacuum Aspiration kits in health care facilities, post-abortion misoprostol and carefully considering the content of post abortion counseling packages deserve keen attention. More large scale qualitative and quantitative studies nationwide to identify and act on context specific barriers to contraception use and abortion related stigma are urgently needed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 121 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 20%
Researcher 15 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Student > Postgraduate 7 6%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 40 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 16%
Social Sciences 17 14%
Psychology 7 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 2%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 40 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2021.
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#3,789,364
of 23,073,835 outputs
Outputs from BMC Women's Health
#401
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#74,940
of 330,347 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Women's Health
#22
of 46 outputs
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