The Africa Regional Conference on Abortion: From Research to Policy

The conference will bring together 250 researchers, policymakers, advocates, health care providers, youth, journalists, and donors, all focused on reducing the detrimental impact of unsafe abortion on African women, especially among young women and adolescents. It builds on two important milestones. The first is the 10-year anniversary of the 2006 consultation, Linking Research to Action to Reduce Unsafe Abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa, during which participants shared abortion research findings to date, identified the significant evidence gaps to facilitate policy and practice change, and set an abortion research agenda for the next decade. 2016 also marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the law in Ethiopia which decriminalized abortion and paved the way for a national safe abortion program under a broad set of conditions