Expanding Access to Postabortion Care Services in Rwanda

This brief summarizes the final results of a comprehensive postabortion care (PAC) pilot program conducted by the Rwanda Ministry of Health and VSI to address maternal deaths due to unsafe abortion. The results demonstrate that enabling mid-level providers at health centers to provide PAC through the integration of misoprostol as a treatment method increases the availability of PAC services and brings them closer to women.

Saving Women's Lives: Rwanda

In Rwanda women have a 1 in 35 lifetime risk of dying from maternal causes. Over 1,500 Rwandan women die each year in pregnancy and childbirth. Excessive bleeding after childbirth, or postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), and complications of abortion are the leading causes of these deaths.

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