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Challenges in accessing abortion care for women
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By Okon Taye – Abuja
Accessing abortion care is one of the problems women in Nigeria are facing which has led to maternal deaths.
The Performance Monitoring for Action, PMA research has revealed that 10 per cent of women had no direct interaction with the abortion provider.
This forces them to rely on partners, friends, or relatives to obtain abortion medication instead.
According to the report from the research work, 9 per cent of women reportedly were refused care at some point in the process of seeking an abortion.
About 35 per cent of women stated that it was very difficult to pay for the cost of abortion, with the poorest women (52 pe4 cent) and women living in rural areas (44 per cent) giving cost as the reason for not being able to access clinical abortion care.