Differential treatment in the provision of medication abortion at pharmacies in Uttar Pradesh, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Almost 3 quarters of India's roughly 16 million annual abortions are done through medication abortion purchased from pharmacists outside of healthcare facilities. The quality of information provided by pharmacists about medication abortion is often poor.

Objective

To determine whether pharmacists selling medication abortion provide different information or ask different, potentially stigmatizing questions to clients by gender and marital status.

Study design

Mystery clients presenting as 4 profiles (unmarried woman, unmarried man, married woman, and married man) purchasing medication abortion interacted with 111 pharmacists in 3 districts around Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 2018. Data were collected immediately after the interaction. The differences in the inf

SUBMITTER: Percher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9563544 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature