Post abortion care strategy.

Complications from abortions kill at least 78000 women every year account for 13 percent of maternal deaths globally and have a substantial impact on womens health and on health care systems. Postabortion care (PAC) has been widely embraced as an important intervention to address complications related to miscarriage and incomplete abortion through improving treatment and linking women to family planning and other reproductive health services. Since the early 1990s the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent approximately $20 million on PAC activities in more than 30 countries. Building on a global PAC evaluation conducted in 2001 USAID undertook a process to develop a strategic plan and framework for PAC. USAID has developed the following as the three core components of its PAC model: 1. emergency treatment for complications of spontaneous or induced abortion; 2. family planning counseling service provision STI evaluation and treatment HIV counseling and/or referral for testing; and 3. community empowerment via community awareness and mobilization. (excerpt)