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Sub-Saharan Africa

The Guttmacher Institute’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa has focused on documenting access to and use of contraceptives, calculating the regional and country-level public health benefits of meeting women’s reproductive health needs, and documenting adolescents’ needs for and access to sexual and reproductive health information and services. The Institute has also estimated the incidence of unsafe abortion at the national level for numerous countries in the region, as well as calculated the health, social and economic consequences of unsafe abortion. This work provides policymakers with evidence to inform effective family planning programs and offers policy recommendations to address unmet reproductive health needs.

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  • Fact Sheet

    Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide

  • Photo of woman with a green background with the words Adding It Up across the bottom
    Initiatives

    Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Policy Analysis

    Crisis on the Horizon: Devastating Losses for Global Reproductive Health Are Possible Due to COVID-19

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 154,000

    maternal deaths per year in Africa that could be prevented by meeting the need for contraception and maternal and newborn care
  • 3 in 4

    surveyed Ghanaian students aged 15–17 are taught to not have sex before marriage
  • 16M

    unintended pregnancies could be prevented each year by providing comprehensive contraceptive care

Resources

  • September 2017 News Release

    Worldwide, an Estimated 25 Million Unsafe Abortions Occur Each Year

    Global

    • Abortion
  • September 2017 Infographic

    Safety of abortions worldwide

    Global

    • Abortion
  • September 2017 Infographic

    Disparities in safety of abortions, by country income

    Global

    • Abortion
  • September 2017 Research Article

    Global, regional, and subregional classification of abortions by safety, 2010–14: estimates from a Bayesian hierarchical model

    Bela Ganatra, Caitlin Gerdts, Clémentine Rossier, Brooke Ronald Johnson, Özge Tunçalp, Anisa Assifi, Gilda Sedgh, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole, Anna Popinchalk, Jonathan Bearak, Zhenning Kang and Leontine Alkema,The Lancet

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    • Abortion
  • August 2017 News Release

    New issue of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health now available

  • August 2017 Policy Analysis

    The Benefits of Investing in International Family Planning—and the Price of Slashing Funding

    Sneha Barot,Guttmacher Policy Review

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    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • July 2017 News Release

    New 14-Country Study Highlights Reasons Women Obtain Abortions

    Global

    • Abortion
  • July 2017 Research Article

    Reasons Women Have Induced Abortions: A Synthesis of Findings from 14 Countries

    Sophia Chae, Sheila Desai, Marjorie Crowell and Gilda Sedgh,Contraception

    Global

    • Abortion
  • June 2017 Infographic

    Unintended pregnancies among women with unmet need for modern contraception, 2017

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  • June 2017 Infographic

    Disparities in modern contraceptive use, 2017

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