Scaling up access to high-quality postabortion care in Kenya: a facility-based assessment of public- and private-sector facilities in Western and Nyanza provinces.

This report offers an in-depth look at postabortion care (PAC) both in its availability and the potential to expand PAC in six districts in Western and Nyanza Provinces in Kenya. This report is based on a multi-method facility assessment conducted in November 2002 as well as a survey of community members from Maendeleo ya Wanawake Kenyas largest womens organization. We measured the quality of PAC in a representative sample of forty-one public private and mission affiliated facilities as well as the capacity for introducing PAC into sixty-seven additional facilities. This project covers multiple levels of the health system with particular emphasis on the primary and secondary levels of care. (excerpt)