Task-sharing: Abortion care access expansion through training midwives and nurses to provide first trimester abortion in a sub-Saharan setting: A multicenter pre-post study.

Objectives: To determine the effect of training midwives and nurses on access to first trimester abortions and post-abortion family planning.

Methods: This was a pre-post study on first trimester abortion care and post-abortion contraceptive services expansion by training midwives and nurses(task-sharing) from 14 catchment health centers of St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (Ethiopia).

Still No Substantial Evidence to Use Prophylactic Antibiotic at Operative Vaginal Delivery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Postpartum maternal infection is still a common problem worldwide, mainly due to obstetric risk factors. The use of prophylactic antibiotic at operative vaginal delivery (OVD), taking it as a standalone risk factor, has been controversial. The purpose of this review was to rigorously evaluate the association of OVD with postpartum infection and shed light on such highly controversial issue.