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Hancart Petitet Pascale. (2018). Abortion politics in Cambodia social history, local forms and transnational issues. Global Public Health, 13 (6), p. 692-701. ISSN 1744-1692.

Titre du document
Abortion politics in Cambodia social history, local forms and transnational issues
Année de publication
2018
Type de document
Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000430045500004
Auteurs
Hancart Petitet Pascale
Source
Global Public Health, 2018, 13 (6), p. 692-701 ISSN 1744-1692
Cambodia's current abortion rate and ratio could be among the highest in Southeast Asia. In 1997, the Cambodian parliament passed the first law regulating abortions. This law was adopted to contribute to reduce the high maternal mortality ratio, as a significant number of maternal deaths were believed to be related to complications of unsafe abortion. A decade later, the Ministry of Health had not yet established medical protocols for safe abortion access and women often continued to induce their own terminations or seek unsafe services. However, in 2009, the Cambodian authorities approved the importation and distribution of one manufactured abortion pill. In addition, manual vacuum abortions and medical abortion training programmes were implemented at the referral hospital level. How has this situation come about? What do we know about the local agencies of the transnational reproductive health policies related to safe abortion access in this country? This paper aims to analyse how history and intersections between global interventions, state policies, local moralities and individual strategies shape abortion policies, practices and technologies. Finally, our findings raise some issues for public health programming.
Plan de classement
Santé : aspects socioculturels, économiques et politiques [056]
Description Géographique
CAMBODGE
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010072747]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010072747
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