Duncan Jarvies talks to Ndola Prata (Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, University of California) about a novel service in Tigray region of North West Ethiopia, which increases women’s access to medical abortion, and has greatly decreased the rate of complications arising from unsafe abortion.

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“A new hope for women”: medical abortion in a low-resource setting in Ethiopia

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In the first JFPRHC podcast,  Anne Swareski, editor of the journal, and Sam Hutt, an associate specialist at the Margaret Pyke Centre, discuss the use of local anaesthesia for IUD/IUS fittings.

Related letter:
Injectable local anaesthesia for IUD/IUS fittings 

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