Desk Review and Recommendations for Private Sector Engagement
Investigación original / Original research
Rev Panam Salud Publica 36(3), 2014
Report of Meeting: 4 November 2014, Roma
An Independent Report
of the West Africa Commission on Drugs
Induced abortion is permitted in Burkina Faso only to save the life and protect the health of a
pregnant woman, or in cases of rape, incest, and severe fetal impairment. As a result, the vast
majority of women who end unintended pregnancies do so in secrecy, out of fear of prosecution
and to avoi...d the social stigma that surrounds this practice. Most clandestine abortions are carried
out in unsafe conditions that jeopardize women’s health and sometimes their lives. This report
presents estimates of the number and rate of induced abortions that occurred in Burkina Faso in
2008 and 2012; reports levels of unintended pregnancy (the major reason that women seek
abortions in the first place); and describes some of the adverse consequences of unsafe abortion
for women, their families and society.
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Supplement to the Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund
Practitioners and Policy Makers
Value in Health Regional Issues 4 C (2014) 37-40