Abstract
"Awareness and Utilization of Emergency Contraception Among Female High School Students in Southeast Ethiopia"
Highlights
BackgroundEmergency contraception (EC) is contraceptive methods that can be used by women within five days following unprotected intercourse to prevent an unplanned pregnancy.EC provide a unique opportunity for preventing pregnancy after unprotected sex that no other contraceptive method can provide
The study revealed that awareness and utilization of emergency contraceptives is low
This leads to increased risk of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion
Summary
BackgroundEmergency contraception (EC) is contraceptive methods that can be used by women within five days following unprotected intercourse to prevent an unplanned pregnancy.EC provide a unique opportunity for preventing pregnancy after unprotected sex that no other contraceptive method can provide. About 42 million induced abortions each year, nearly 20 million abortions are unsafe More than 95% of unsafe abortions occur in developing countries and nearly half of maternal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa were due to unsafe abortion [4,5]. Teenage girls are at double risk of dying from pregnancy and birth complication than women over 20 years. Despite the existence of sound contraceptive methods including emergency contraception, there are huge numbers (84 million) of unplanned pregnancies occurring globally. Fifty percent of these pregnancies ended up in induced abortion out of which, 21 million are unsafely manipulated. The paucity of information in most rural part limits interventions that fit to the local situation
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