The Zambia Prevention of Unsafe Abortions Project
Traditional ceremonies are a critical platform to raise awareness on health issues by engaging communities in a cultural-relevant and meaningful way. This is because traditional ceremonies can be used to […]
Youth advocacy in Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) aims to address the systematic barriers faced by young people when seeking reproductive healthcare. In self-managed medical abortion care, youth advocacy […]
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86.7% of the health facilities have no adequate stocks of mifepristone as well as misoprostol for provision of safe self-managed abortion. The erratic supply of medical abortion drugs has serious consequences on the effectiveness of the self-managed medical abortion advocacy project.
The Zambia Self-Managed Medical Abortion project comes at a right time when barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion are still many, forcing women and girls to seek unsafe abortions. Self-managed abortion care therefore presents many opportunities through which such barriers could be overcome.
International federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) has featured ZAGO’s Self-managed medical abortion advocacy project in its monthly newsletter of November 2023. The article highlights project implementation achievements for the last six months. Read full article here
Advocacy remains one of the strategic ways to addressing these challenges. Therefore, the need for strengthened advocacy skills amongst SRHR advocates and a creation of a strategy for advocacy is an essential part of the health system.