International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics : the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Nov 1997
GuidelineACOG committee opinion. Role of the obstetrician-gynecologist in the diagnosis and treatment of breast disease. Number 186, September 1997 (replaces no. 140, June 1994). Committee on Gynecologic Practice. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Nov 1997
Improving emergency obstetric care at a district hospital, Makeni, Sierra Leone. The Freetown/Makeni PMM Team.
A facility review and focus group discussions revealed poor capacity to manage obstetric complications. ⋯ Women with obstetric complications will seek hospital care if services are available. Government hospital services can be improved by building on existing resources. Obstetric CFR can be dramatically reduced. The need for safe abortion services, which are currently illegal in Sierra Leone, is demonstrated.
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Jul 1997
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: a decade of responding to violence against women.
Violence against women is a common phenomenon worldwide. Effects can be severe and life-long. ⋯ This article presents an overview of violence against women and its consequences, highlights responses to the problem, and details the activities of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to educate its members on domestic violence. ACOG activities may serve as a model of response to domestic violence for similar organizations.
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Int J Gynaecol Obstet · Jul 1997
Ethical issues relating to reproduction control and women's health.
There are many ethical aspects which derive from the application of reproduction control in women's health. Women's health can be enhanced if women are given the opportunity to make their own reproduction choices about sex, contraception, abortion and application of reproductive technologies. The main issues that raise ethical dilemmas following the development of assisted reproduction techniques are: the right to procreate or reproduce; the process of in vitro fertilization itself-is it morally acceptable to interfere in the reproduction process?; the moral status of the embryo; the involvement of a third party in the reproductive process by genetic material donation; the practice of surrogacy, cryopreservation of pre-embryos; genetic manipulation; experiments on pre-embryos, etc. ⋯ At present women bear most of the burden of reproductive health. All of them have a right of access to fertility regulation. Governments and society must ensure the women's equal rights to health care just as men have in the regulation of their fertility.