Health facility capacity to provide postabortion care in Afghanistan: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Farzana Maruf (Author), Hannah Tappis (Author), Enriquito Lu (Author), Ghutai Sadeq Yaqubi (Author), Jelle Stekelenburg (Author), Thomas van den Akker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Plain English summary Afghanistan has one of the highest burdens of maternal mortality in the world. Infections, bleeding around childbirth, and unsafe abortion are the three leading causes of mortality in the country. The uptake of contraceptives is low, and only one-fifth of married women use cont...