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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Post Abortion Care - East and Southern Africa

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Unsafe abortions in Africa are frequent and dangerous due to untrained workers performing the abortions or unsafe environments lacking minimum medical standards or both. By integrating and decentralizing services, meeting the needs for family planning, providing post abortion and emergency treatment care, the number of deaths of mothers due to abortions is hoped to decrease.
Communication Strategies

Emergency treatment services, post abortion family planning and care, meeting family planning needs, integrating services, decentralizing services, conserving health care resources, providing access to expertise and experience
Development Issues

Abortion, reproductive health, family planning, youth
Key Points

The magnitude of unsafe abortions and their complications are difficult to measure but very frequent. This serious public health problem is the number one killer of women in their reproductive years in some countries. Abortion in Africa is frequent because unwanted pregnancy is both widespread and repeated, and every time a women chooses abortion as the method of removing unwanted pregnancy, her risk of dying escalates.
Partners



U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID/REDSO/ESA), POLICY - The Futures Group International, Health and Human Resources Analysis for Africa (HHRAA)

Sources

"What Can you do?" Post abortion Care in East and Southern Africa.