Unsafe abortion requiring hospital admission in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea--a descriptive study of women's and health care workers' experiences.

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Published in Reprod Health on March 21, 2015

Authors

Lisa M Vallely1, Primrose Homiehombo2, Angela Kelly-Hanku3,4, Andrea Whittaker5

Author Affiliations

1: Australian Centre of Tropical Medicine and Health, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia. lmvallely@yahoo.com.
2: Sexual & Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, PO Box 60, Goroka, 441, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. primrose.homiehombo@pngimr.org.pg.
3: Sexual & Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, PO Box 60, Goroka, 441, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. a.Kelly@unsw.edu.au.
4: School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia. a.Kelly@unsw.edu.au.
5: School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. andrea.whittaker@monash.edu.

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