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Experts count the cost of backstreet abortions

Backstreet abortions are driving the public health sector to its knees with tax payers left to clean up the mess, according the Nairobi-based African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC).

Preliminary findings from an ongoing national survey in 128 Level II to VI public health facilities shows that the high number of women with complications resulting from unsafe abortions are a major burden to the struggling sector.

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