Pathfinder International
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2024-03-28T23:39:24ZSaving Young Lives: Pathfinder International’s
Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Project
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Saving Young Lives: Pathfinder International’s
Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Project
Pathfinder International
As many as 2.5 million adolescent women seek abortion each year, and nearly 70,000 women
die from complications related to unsafe abortion, of which almost half are women under the
age of 25. A further 5 million women suffer disability due to unsafe abortion yearly. In most
developing countries, abortion is legally restricted or highly inaccessible, which leads young women
to seek services from unskilled practitioners often leading to incomplete, septic abortions and
massive bleeding, which can result in permanent injury, infertility, and death.
Based on our deeply held belief that all people, including adolescents, have a right to sexual and
reproductive health services and the importance of addressing adolescent needs within Postabortion
Care (PAC) services, Pathfinder used private funds to initiate a Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care
(YFPAC) program in eight sub-Saharan African countries. Implemented between June 2007 and
May 2008, the YFPAC program offered an opportunity to apply the PAC Consortium’s Technical
Guidance on Youth-Friendly PAC, generating promising approaches and lessons learned.
The goal of the YFPAC initiative was to increase access to PAC services that are responsive to
adolescent needs in sub-Saharan Africa. While outcomes varied according to the country, the
overall outcomes included:
Increased community support for services and activities that prevent unwanted pregnancy,
decreased stigma around abortion, and awareness of the issue of unsafe abortion among
adolescent women: 311 peer educators reached almost 17,487 youth and other community
members; 171 stakeholders (e.g., religious and traditional leaders, health officials, and local
government officials) were sensitized on YFPAC, resulting in a positive shift in communities’
attitudes toward youth in need of PAC services.
125 service providers were trained to deliver YFPAC services and three doctors in Ghana were
provided with a technical update on YFPAC.
YFPAC services are available in Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda,
Ethiopia, and Kenya. Pathfinder introduced YFPAC services into 25 facilities (in 27 service
delivery points), and provided more than 3,800 clients with YFPAC services throughout the
eight countries. The number of adolescent PAC clients seen at the project facilities increased—
710 clients were seen in the first quarter, 1,144 were seen in the fourth.
The number of adolescent PAC clients who adopt a contraceptive method to prevent future
unintended pregnancies has increased. Statistics show an average postabortion contraceptive
acceptance of 69%, with the highest acceptance being 83% and the lowest being 44%.
Evidence-based approaches, tools, and lessons learned are being disseminated and used for
scale-up or replication of YFPAC interventions.
2008-10-01T00:00:00ZAssessment of Youth-Friendly
Postabortion Care Services:
A Global Tool for Assessing and Improving
Postabortion Care for Youth
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Assessment of Youth-Friendly
Postabortion Care Services:
A Global Tool for Assessing and Improving
Postabortion Care for Youth
Pathfinder International
This tool is designed to help assessment teams, project managers, supervisors, and providers collect detailed information on the quality of
Postabortion Care (PAC) services provided to adolescents at a given facility in order to make services more youth-friendly. It can also be used
before PAC services have been established to see how best to design PAC services to meet youth’s needs. The assessment process facilitates the
development of action plans for quality improvement that can help facilities address policy, operations, training, and other program areas needing
adjustments and change. The tool also provides essential baseline information, allowing for repeated applications to measure changes and the impact
of program interventions. Although the tool is primarily for use by a team, it may also be used by an individual.
2008-01-01T00:00:00ZAddresing the
consequences of
unsafe abortion. Insight from Pathfinder Program Experience
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Addresing the
consequences of
unsafe abortion. Insight from Pathfinder Program Experience
Webb, Sheila
2000-01-01T00:00:00ZReproductive Health Projects: Innovation - Quality - Reach
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Reproductive Health Projects: Innovation - Quality - Reach
Pathfinder International
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z