Intervening factors in health care professionals' attitudes and behaviours towards comprehensive abortion care in the workplace: a comparative case study of Tanzania and Ethiopia.

Purpose: Health care professionals' attitudes and behaviours play a fundamental role in the provision of timely comprehensive abortion care as a maternal health intervention and save hundreds of thousands of women's lives, annually. This study explores underlying factors influencing Tanzanian and Ethiopian health care professionals' attitudes and behaviours towards comprehensive abortion care between 2015 and 2020.

Materials And Methods: The study inductively explored Ethiopian and Tanzanian health care professionals' behaviours using a comparative case study design and a textual analytical approach.

Pathways to change: Three decades of feminist research and activism to end violence against women in Nicaragua.

This paper presents the results of nearly three decades of partnership between feminist researchers and activists to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Nicaragua. A household survey conducted in 1995 in León, the country's second-largest city, revealed that 55 per cent of women had experienced lifetime physical intimate partner violence (IPV), and 27 per cent had experienced IPV in the last 12 months. The study results were instrumental in changing domestic violence laws in Nicaragua.

Exploring sexual awareness and Decision-making among adolescent girls and boys in rural Nicaragua: A socio-ecological approach.

Objective: To explore how individual, relational, and social contexts influence adolescents' sexual awareness and decision-making in rural Nicaragua.

Methods: Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with adolescent boys and girls aged 15 to 19 years. Thematic analysis identified patterns of meaning applying a socio-ecological approach.

Men's reproductive coercion of women: prevalence, experiences, and coping strategies-a mixed method study in urban health facilities in León, Nicaragua.

Background: Reproductive coercion (RC) is a common form of violence against women. It can take several expressions aiming at limiting women's reproductive autonomy. Thus, the frequency and how reproductive coercion can be resisted must be investigated.

Measuring HIV- and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in Nicaragua: results from a community-based study.

Psychometric properties of external HIV-related stigma and discrimination scales and their predictors were investigated. A cross-sectional community-based study was carried out among 520 participants using an ongoing health and demographic surveillance system in León, Nicaragua. Participants completed an 18-item HIV stigma scale and 19 HIV and AIDS discrimination-related statements.

Assessing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to HIV and AIDS in Nicaragua: a community-level perspective.

Background: Nicaragua's HIV epidemic is concentrated among men who have sex with men. Nevertheless, the increasing number of HIV cases among heterosexuals, high levels of poverty and migration rates, and incomplete epidemiological data suggest the need to improve the understanding of the epidemic.

Objective: To examine the prevalence of HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, and sexual risk-taking behaviors, and their predictors among the adult population.