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Reproductive Health Matters
An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Volume 13, 2005 - Issue 26: The abortion pill
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Medical Abortion: The Possibilities for Introduction in the Public Sector in South Africa

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Pages 35-43 | Published online: 12 Nov 2005

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Elizabeth A. Mosley, Elizabeth J. King, Amy J. Schulz, Lisa H. Harris, Nicole De Wet & Barbara A. Anderson. (2017) Abortion attitudes among South Africans: findings from the 2013 social attitudes survey. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:8, pages 918-933.
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Nolwazi Mkhwanazi. (2014) Twenty years of democracy and the politics of reproduction in South Africa. African Identities 12:3-4, pages 326-341.
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Ashley Gresh & Pranitha Maharaj. (2011) A qualitative assessment of the acceptability and potential demand for medical abortion among university students in Durban, South Africa. The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care 16:2, pages 67-75.
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LJ van Bogaert, M Cuellar Torriente & G Joubert. (2007) Mifeprostone in termination of pregnancy. South African Family Practice 49:8, pages 4-4.
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L.-J. van Bogaert & T. M. Sedibe. (2007) Efficacy of a single misoprostol regimen in the first and second trimester termination of pregnancy. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 27:5, pages 510-512.
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Rishita Nandagiri & Lucía Berro Pizzarossa. (2023) Transgressing biomedical and legal boundaries: The “enticing and hazardous” challenges and promises of a Self-Managed Abortion multiverse. Women's Studies International Forum 100, pages 102799.
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Laura E Jacobson, Biani Saavedra-Avendano, Evelyn Fuentes-Rivera, Raffaela Schiavon & Blair G Darney. (2022) Travelling for abortion services in Mexico 2016–2019: community-level contexts of Mexico City public abortion clients. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health 48:e1, pages e81-e87.
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Ernestina Coast, Samantha R. Lattof, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Brittany Moore & Cheri Poss. (2021) The microeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the economic consequences for abortion care-seekers. PLOS ONE 16:6, pages e0252005.
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Rugsapon Sanitya, Aniqa Islam Marshall, Nithiwat Saengruang, Sataporn Julchoo, Pigunkaew Sinam, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Mathudara Phaiyarom, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Nongluk Boonthai & Kamheang Chaturachinda. (2020) Healthcare Providers’ Knowledge and Attitude Towards Abortions in Thailand: A Pre-Post Evaluation of Trainings on Safe Abortion. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17:9, pages 3198.
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Jill Barr-Walker, Ruvani T. Jayaweera, Ana Maria Ramirez & Caitlin Gerdts. (2019) Experiences of women who travel for abortion: A mixed methods systematic review. PLOS ONE 14:4, pages e0209991.
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Ulrika Rehnström Loi, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, Elisabeth Faxelid & Marie Klingberg-Allvin. (2015) Health care providers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards induced abortions in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia: a systematic literature review of qualitative and quantitative data. BMC Public Health 15:1.
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Kelly Blanchard, Naomi Lince-Deroche, Tamara Fetters, Jaymala Devjee, Ilundi Durão de Menezes, Karen Trueman, May Sudhinaraset, Errol Nkonko & Jack Moodley. (2015) Introducing medication abortion into public sector facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: an operations research study. Contraception 92:4, pages 330-338.
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Dana Schonberg, Lin-Fan Wang, Ariana H. Bennett, Marji Gold & Emily Jackson. (2014) The accuracy of using last menstrual period to determine gestational age for first trimester medication abortion: a systematic review. Contraception 90:5, pages 480-487.
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Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson & Helena Kopp Kallner. 2014. Abortion Care. Abortion Care 219 226 .
Catriona Macleod, Lebogang Seutlwadi & Gary Steele. (2014) Cracks in reproductive health rights: Buffalo City learners’ knowledge of abortion legislation. Health SA Gesondheid 19:1.
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Katherine Marianne de Tolly & Deborah Constant. (2014) Integrating Mobile Phones into Medical Abortion Provision: Intervention Development, Use, and Lessons Learned From a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR mhealth and uhealth 2:1, pages e5.
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Catriona Macleod & Tiffany Tracey. 2014. International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy. International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy 545 561 .
Louis‐Jacques van Bogaert & Asha Misra. (2008) Sonography of uterine cavity contents after medical abortion. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 104:2, pages 150-151.
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Mary Kawonga, Kelly Blanchard, Diane Cooper, Lee Cullingworth, Kim Dickson, Teresa Harrison, Claire von Mollendorf & Beverly Winikoff. (2008) Integrating medical abortion into safe abortion services: experience from three pilot sites in South Africa. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 34:3, pages 159-164.
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Jane Harries, Phyllis Orner, Mosotho Gabriel & Ellen Mitchell. (2007) Delays in seeking an abortion until the second trimester: a qualitative study in South Africa. Reproductive Health 4:1.
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C.C. Harper, K. Blanchard, D. Grossman, J.T. Henderson & P.D. Darney. (2007) Reducing maternal mortality due to elective abortion: Potential impact of misoprostol in low‐resource settings. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 98:1, pages 66-69.
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K Blanchard, D Cooper, K Dickson, L Cullingworth, N Mavimbela, C Von Mollendorf, LJ Van Bogaert & B Winikoff. (2007) A comparison of women’s, providers’ and ultrasound assessments of pregnancy duration among termination of pregnancy clients in South Africa. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 114:5, pages 569-575.
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