141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Abortion practices around the globe

Monday, November 4, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
Angel M. Foster, DPhil, MD, AM

2:30pm
Understanding women's experiences with misoprostol for self-induced abortion in Peru   

Diana Santana, MA
2:45pm
Flowers, tablets, sticks, and falls: Documenting women's abortion experiences on the Thailand-burma border   

Angel M. Foster, DPhil, MD, AM, Meredith Walsh, MPH, RN, Cynthia Maung, MBBS, Sophia Hla and Cari Sietstra, JD
3:00pm
Introducing medical menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: Operations research study to test feasibility of introducing & acceptability of menstrual regulation with medication in Bangladesh   

Ismat Hena, Nargis Sultana and Ubaidur Rob, PhD
3:15pm
Assessing external influence in socially contentious policy reform: Ethiopian reproductive health leaders' understandings of foreign involvement in Ethiopia's 2005 reform of its penal code with respect to abortion   

Sarah Jane Holcombe, MPPM, MPH, PhD (C)

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, International Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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