[Contraception and maternity: Findings of a quali-quantitative study with 18- and 19-year-olds in four provinces of Argentina].

The article analyzes the factors that facilitate or hinder access and effective use of contraception by 18- and 19-year-olds living in the cities of Resistencia (province of Chaco), Posadas (province of Misiones) and Santiago del Estero (province of Santiago del Estero) as well as the health regions V and VII of the province of Buenos Aires. Data comes from a survey applied to a purposeful sample of 480 adolescent females (including respondents without children, with one child, and with more than one child) and 21 semi-structured interviews with a population of the same profile. In response to the survey, 74.

A multimodal intervention to improve hand hygiene in ICUs in Buenos Aires, Argentina: a stepped wedge trial.

Issue: Hand hygiene is a cost-effective measure to reduce microbial transmission (Teare EL, Cookson B, French GL, et al. UK handwashing initiative. J Hosp Infect.

The reproductive needs and rights of people living with HIV in Argentina: health service users' and providers' perspectives.

This article focuses on the contraceptive and reproductive experiences and needs of people living with HIV and on public health services' responses to them in Argentina. Data collected through a national survey amongst people living with HIV (N=841) and semi-structured interviews (N=89) explored the perspectives of both health-care users and HIV/AIDS program coordinators and providers. The survey revealed that 55% of women and 30% of men had had children after their HIV diagnosis and that half of those pregnancies had been unintended.

Adolescent pregnancy in Argentina: evidence-based recommendations for public policies.

In Argentina adolescent pregnancy is still regarded as a public health problem or a "social epidemic". However, it is necessary to ask from which perspective and for whom it is a problem, and what type of problem. This article presents the findings of a large quantitative and qualitative study conducted in five Northern provinces and two metropolitan areas of Argentina in 2003-2004.

[Contraception and abortion in Argentina: perspective of obstetricians and gynaecologists].

Objective: To explore the role of obstetricians and gynaecologists in reproductive public health policies in Argentina.

Material And Methods: Combination of quantitative methods (survey, n=467) and qualitative methods (semistructured interview, n=35; focus groups, n=6).

Results: The great majority of respondents believe that abortion and contraception are serious public health issues.

Abortion in a restrictive legal context: the views of obstetrician-gynaecologists in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In Argentina, unsafe abortions are the primary cause of maternal mortality, accounting for 32% of maternal deaths. During reform of the National Constitution in 1994, the women's movement effectively resisted the reactionary government/church position on abortion. Health professionals, including obstetrician-gynaecologists, played conflicting roles in this debate.