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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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    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

  • 33

    abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-49 in Sub-Saharan Africa occurred annually in 2015-2019
  • 1 in 4

    surveyed Kenyan students aged 15–17 learn about contraception
  • 80%

    reduction in unintended pregnancies if all unmet need for modern contraception were satisfied in Africa

Resources

  • April 2020 Research Article

    Estimating the incidence of abortion: using the Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology in Ghana, 2017

    Chelsea Polis, Philicia Castillo, Easmon Otupiri, Sarah Keogh, Rubina Hussain, Emmanuel K. Nakua, Roderick Larsen-Reindorf and Suzanne Bell,BMJ Global Health

    Global

    • Abortion
  • April 2020 Research Article

    Estimating the incidence of abortion: a comparison of five approaches in Ghana

    Sarah Keogh, Easmon Otupiri, Doris Chiu, Chelsea Polis, Rubina Hussain, Suzanne Bell, Emmanuel K. Nakua and Roderick Larsen-Reindorf,BMJ Global Health

    Global

    • Abortion
  • December 2019 Report

    Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Challenges and Progress

    Naomi Lince-Deroche, Patrick Kayembe, Nakeisha Blades, Patrice Williams, Susan London, Crispin Mabika, Jesse Philbin and Akinrinola Bankole

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
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    September 2019 Infographic

    Meeting the need for modern contraception and maternal and newborn health care in Nigeria

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • September 2019 Research Article

    Not all inequalities are equal: differences in coverage across the continuum of reproductive health services

    Elizabeth Sully, Ann Biddlecom and Jacqueline E. Darroch,BMJ Global Health

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • April 2019 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia, 2018

    Global

    • Contraception
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    April 2019 Fact Sheet

    Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health in Nigeria, 2018

    Global

    • Contraception
  • March 2019 News Release

    In Uganda, Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Information Fall Short for Adolescents

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Teens
  • March 2019 News Release

    Improvements in Sexual and Reproductive Health Should Remain Priorities in Ethiopia

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Teens
  • February 2019 News Release

    In Kenya, Reproductive Health Services Fall Short of Adolescents’ Needs

    Global

    • Contraception
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Ethiopia is one of only a handful of countries to eliminate barriers to legal abortion specifically for adolescents. As a result, young women are more likely to access safe abortion care than any other age-group there.

Elizabeth Sully

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