Attitudes and practices of private medical providers towards family planning and abortion services in Nigeria.

Context: The study was designed to investigate the attitudes and practices of private medical practitioners towards abortion, postabortion care and postabortion family planning in Nigeria.

Methods: Three hundred and twenty-three private practitioners who were proprietors of private clinics in three states of the country were interviewed with a structured questionnaire that elicited information on their knowledge and experiences of abortion and postabortion care in the cities.

Results: Twenty-four percent of the doctors reported that they routinely terminate unwanted pregnancies when requested to do so by women, while 82% reported that they frequently treat women who experience complications of unsafe abortion.

Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of sex trafficking by young women in Benin City, South-South Nigeria.

Benin City, the headquarters of Edo State, is known to have one of the highest rates of international sex trafficking of young women in Nigeria. This study was designed to determine the knowledge, attitudes and experiences of young women in Benin City, towards international sex trafficking. A random household sample of 1456 women aged 15-25 years was interviewed with a structured questionnaire that elicited information on women's experiences of, and attitudes towards international sex trafficking.