Sushanta K. Banerjee

Ipas Devt. Foundation India · Research & Evaluation

Strengthening CAC Services during COVID-19

UHI Strategy Paper on Postabortion Family Planning

Systematic Review on MA self-use: A Global Review

Background Maternal mortality, which primarily burdens developing countries, reflects the greatest health divide between rich and poor. This is especially pronounced for access to safe abortion services which alone avert 1 of every 10 maternal deaths in India. Primarily due to confidentiality concerns, poor women in India prefer private services wh...

Background This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a high-intensity model (HIM) and a low-intensity model (LIM) of behaviour change communication interventions in Bihar and Jharkhand states of India designed to improve women's knowledge and usage of safe abortion services, as well as the dose effect of intervention exposure. Methods We co...

Women receiving induced abortions or postabortion care are at high risk of subsequent unintended pregnancy, and intervals of less than six months between abortion and subsequent pregnancy may be associated with adverse outcomes. This study highlights the prevalence and attributes of postabortion contraceptive acceptance from 2,456 health facilities...

Recognizing the need to increase access to safe abortion services to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, the state government of Bihar, India introduced an innovative mechanism of accrediting private health care facilities. The program, Yukti Yojana (‘a scheme for solution’), accredits eligible health facilities and supports them in providing...

Young, rural Indian women lack sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and agency and are at risk of negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Youth-focused interventions have been shown to improve agency and self-efficacy of young women to make decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health. The objectives of this study...

Background: Recognizing the need to increase access to safe abortion services to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, the State Government of Bihar introduced an innovative mechanism of accrediting private health care facilities. The program, YuktiYojana, was designed to accredit private health facilities and support them in providing abortion-...

Background Despite the adoption of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1972, access to safe abortion services remains limited in India. Awareness of the legality of abortion also remains low, leading many women to seek services outside the health system. Medical abortion (MA) is an option that has the potential to expand access to safe abor...

EVALUATIONREPORTfinal, nov09.p65 1/12/2010, 4:18 PM 1 Ipas works globally to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries. We seek to expand the availability, quality, and sustainability of abortion and related reproductive health services, as well as to improve the ena...

Background: Four million unsafe abortions occur annually in India, and 13% of maternal mortality in south and central Asia is due to unsafe abortion. Despite being legal in India since 1971, many women lack knowledge of and access to safe abortion services. A BCC intervention, including wall-signs, street plays, interpersonal counseling, and commun...

Although abortion became legal in India in 1971, many women are unaware of the law. Behavior change communication interventions may be an effective way to promote awareness of the law and change knowledge of and perceptions about abortion, particularly in settings in which abortion is stigmatized. To evaluate the effectiveness of a behavior change...

High rates of maternal death from unsafe abortion per-sist in India despite passage of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act in 1971. 1 This relatively liberal law permits a woman to obtain abortion services from a registered medical practitioner at any approved facility for many indications: to save her life, to preserve her physi-cal and...

This study aimed to understand women's pathways of seeking care for postabortion complications in Madhya Pradesh, India. The study recruited 786 women between July and November 2007. Data were collected on service provision, abortion-related complications, care-seeking behavior, knowledge about abortion legality and availability, methods used, symp...

Nearly 40 years after enactment of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971, unsafe abortion continues to be a neglected women's health issue in India. This prospective study of women presenting for post-abortion care in 10 selected hospitals in Madhya Pradesh, India, aimed to understand the incidence, types and severity of post-abortion co...

Unsafe abortion in India leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Abortion has been legal in India since 1971, and the availability of safe abortion services has increased. However, service availability has not led to a significant reduction in unsafe abortion. This study aimed to understand the gap between safe abortion availability and use o...

ipasindia@ipas.org For more information, please contact: Mrs. Paramita Aich (aichp@ipas.org), State Program Officer, Jharkhand Mr. Samshad Alam (alams@ipas.org), Senior Program Coordinator, Bihar

The objective of this study was to examine experiences and service delivery of private medical doctors participating in a professional network designed to improve knowledge and service quality of medical abortion (MA) procedures. A cross-sectional assessment of 87 Medical Abortion Provider Network (MAPnet) participants was conducted between Decembe...

While much is known about health effects of unsafe abortion, less attention has been paid to economic impact. This study describes 381 patients presenting for complications of unsafe abortion at ten selected hospitals in Madhya Pradesh, India. Many women accessing post abortion care (PAC) first attempted pregnancy induction at home by themselves or...

EVALUATIONREPORTfinal, nov09.p65 1/12/2010, 4:18 PM 1 Ipas works globally to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries. We seek to expand the availability, quality, and sustainability of abortion and related reproductive health services, as well as to improve the ena...

Unsafe abortion costs 12000 lives of women in India every year mostly due to lack of safe access of abortion services. Unfortunately, there is limited research that has looked holistically the causal routes and pathways of these unsafe abortions or aimed at reaching women who had faced post-abortion complications (PAC) as a consequence of unsafe ab...

Although medication abortion (MA) has been an option in India since 2002, use of this method has been limited to the legal private sector and informal providers. To date there has been no effort that looked holistically at the provision of MA through the rural public sector or aimed at expanding access to safe services by reaching women directly wi...

The impact of job migration on households across Kerala has its impact on a greater flow of remittances from abroad, which in turn leads to improved living standards and increased consumption levels. More long-term changes, as this paper emphasises, are related to education. Higher educated workers spend more time abroad, while for the women, an in...

The standard of living or economic status data are not always sufficient to understand the complex mechanism of fertility change. A number of other social factors directly and indirectly influence couples' decisions on family size. Statewise analysis of data shows that only in Punjab is there the expected negative association between living standar...