Knowledge of abortion legality among health facility staff in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abortion has been legal for multiple indications in Ghana since 1985, and efforts have been made to expand the availability of safe abortion care in the years since. However clandestine, and potentially unsafe, abortions remain common, suggesting numerous barriers to access persist; one possible barrier is poor knowledge of the abortion law among those working in health facilities. Our study aimed to identify levels of legal knowledge among health facility staff across Ghana.

Methods

Data for this paper are drawn from a nationally representative cross-sectional health facility survey conducted in 2018; our analytic sample includes 340 facilities that provide induced abortion and/or postabortion care (PAC). The survey collected data on provision of abortion and PAC

SUBMITTER: Sheehy G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11340966 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature