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Measuring Abortion Incidence, Severity of Complications, and Health Facilities’ Capacity to Provide Abortion Care in Refugee Settings in Uganda, BAOBAB STUDY

Uganda, 2023
Health and Well-Being (HaW)
Yohannes Wado
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M.12. Interviewer observations (m12)

Data file: KIS_UGANDA_RECAST

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Basing on the fact that the respondent is always on ground with both newly arrived and long term refugee residents, he has information that can help us for further assessment.
For question 310 the respondent mentin 100 for medication and zero for surgical and others. I could not go fo the next question then I had to write 8888 for it to allme move for both new and old,
He asked for more time for the
He is an enrolled nurse that operates a busy clinic in maji 3, he said other drugs that are used in he refugee settlements include cipro,diclofenac in large quantity, doxycycline, asprin,and the black substance on match boxes to induce abortion
He is the Assistant District health officer of Terego District. With a masters in public health.He was so happy that a study like this is being conducted in the refugee settlements in Uganda and eagerly waiting for the publication.He also sha
He is the Acting DHO currently. He however used to be ADHO in charge of maternal health for the last nine years. He however said the percentages given are what what he gets from the biostatician and sometimes the facilities call back to say th
He noted that acess to services gets better for refugees as they stay longer because they are now aware of services compared to the informal services.
He was composed and knowledgeable. Patient and was always giving indeepth explanations on why he was attributing a particular percentage to the different providers and complications that arise from the methods sorted from the different provide
He workers in UNHCR as the Assistant Public Health officer. He is in charge of Kyaka II and Rwamwanja settlement. He was knowledgeable and however also encouraged to talk to the refugee leaders although he didn't have their contacts. He said th
Interview was successful with a TBA in block1 She has been a TBA since 2005, when reached the camp in 2017 she fell sick the whole year and started her work as TBA in 2018 where she also acquired training After helping the women in the com
Interview was successful with the ADHO at Obongi district head quarters Informed person, calm and very Interactive person Most induced abortion in Obongi(palorinya) is induced by medication and other types since most of induced abortion is
Interview was successful with the medical officer focal person SRH bidibidi refugee settlement. She was knowledgeable and interesting person who have worked in the refugee settings for two years. Bidibidi refugee settlement have not received
Most of the surgical abortions are done by medical doctors, nurses sem to fear inducing abortion using surgical that is why it is done by doctors. They are comfortable using medication abortion and complete using surgical. ANC in the first tri
She is the maternity in charge and SGBV She has worked in the refugee settlement for over four years, she said that the rate of induced abortions among the dinka and the nueri tribes is minimal compared to the Madi (south Sudan Madi) that are
She noted that those that have stayed long in the camps get familiar and are able to get services besides there are many health facilities close to the camps. They also had a case last of a student who tried abort but failed as it was incomplet
Successful interview She has been a TBA way back from South Sudan till the camp and she learnt everything from her mother. Most times she handles pregnant women in the community by massaging their stomach and putting the baby in a right posi
Successful interview with TBA in Bidibidi village 6 She was taught to be a TBA while in South Sudan and helped alot of women for her skills When she relocated to bidibidi, she continued to her work from since she arrived till date. Bidibidi
Successful interview with a clinical officer at yinga health Centre 3 Knowledgeable person
Successful interview with a social worker at palorinya health Centre 3 Very knowledgeable and experienced since he encountered such cases. He requested that the research should be applied research not academic research so that it can help sta
Successful interview with the health manager Knowledge person, learnt The community completely perceive abortion as something that is completely wrong. They considered as outcast(women who abort)
Surgical methods are not used to induce abortion they are used to complete abortion that were started in the community. She also noted that many people had be sensitisation and people are aware of misprostal to induce abortions
The clinic is very busy in the during the interview about 8 clients came to buy medicine and one came for an injection.
The respondent said the information they get is mainly from the POCs who come with complaints but the majority usually keep it confidential. However there are many community distributors of abortion pills through the black market posing as qua
The respondent was knowledgeable about the study topic and the refugee population. He has no idea of the surgical methods of abortion but knowledgeableabout the misoprostol and other types of methods of abortion. He says the pharmacies play a
The Interviewee was welcoming and shared information freely and was even willing to engage other informed personnel to provide information for the study
The interview was good. I have to say it is one of the interviews that I enjoyed most, The respondent was composed and knowledgeable about the study topic. He is also well versed with the refugee population in West Nile namely Bidi Bidi, imvepi
The interviewee shared information according to his opinion, he noted however that the surgical and medical abortions done at the facility are as a result of incomplete abortions from the various methods of abortion used by the refugee women
The interviewee was comfortable with sharing only information about traditional providers and the complications associated He also shared that among the reasons why women go for abortion via traditional methods is because its illegal to condu
The participant shared information freely and even showed me the types of medicine available that were stocked to help induce abortions She noted that sometimes they refer patients to health facilities incase they want to have surgical aborti
The refugees don't support abort that is why many of them go to drug shops and avoid the health facility because people will find out, even when they get complications they go back to where they went for abortion. Young girls get pregnant they
The respondent had no idea about the surgical and medication Methods. She went ahead and said the TBAs are no longer active because of the dialogs,out reaches as well as the counseling services that take place at the facility. She went a head
The respondent being part of a social worker team, many refugee women stealthily or secretly approach them for pieces of advice after trying out those methods done by either doctors or nurses and get complications.
The respondent freely shared information according to his opinion on what is happening in the refugee settlement according to his opinion He also noted that for those with abortion complications and deliveries who stay far from government hea
The respondent has alot of experience however about the refugee settings she knows average about it. Very Interactive person and knows alot about the host nevertheless she got data about study topic in the refugee settings.
The respondent has been positive and knowledgeable though she didn't want to fully disclose the information. However, the interview has been completed successfully.
The respondent has been positive and knowledgeable. Therefore, the interview has been completed successfully.
The respondent has been positive, knowledgeable and she says, she wishes to participate in other studies.
The respondent has been positive, liked the the survey and he advocates for reviews of laws /policies on abortion.
The respondent has been very committed, cooperative and knowledgeable.
The respondent has been very helpful and cooperative.Secondly, they are organised and focused on improving the lives of the refugees. Lastly, he has liked the study and he requests that surveys of this kind should always be carried out in refu
The respondent has knowledge on the matters of abortion and post abortion care services and she has been welcoming and positive.
The respondent has only seen mesoprostol on the referral forms but has observed mothers buying pills and also some traditional providers giving out these particular pills. he doesn't know the name of the pills either. He said most new arrival
The respondent is a Nursing Officer by qualification and the Focal person of Elimination of Mother to Child transmission of HIV. She has said she is also the Head of Adolescent health and the District of Kikuube doesn't have ADHO in charge of
The respondent is a public health officer at UNHCR Nakivale and he has said that with the refugees they have especially the new arrivals who came March 2022, he has no much information about the abortion services happening among them apart fro
The respondent is a traditional birth attendant. He has not lived for so long in the Uganda refugee settlements and only making two years in April. He doesn't know much about the surgical and medication abortion apart from the few cases he has
The respondent is good, cooperative, and knowledgeable but she seems to have had fear on disclosing everything. However, the interview has been completed successfully.
The respondent is operating in a private clinic but being supported by Mariestopes and also providing PAC services. They also use mesoclear for abortion
The respondent is the facility Incharge under MTI. From the responses given, he said it is difficult to separate the percentages of new arrivals and the longer term residents when it comes to their health seeking behaviours because they never r
The respondent said that Kiryandongo refugee settlement is not a receiving settlement and has not received new refugees over many years. That's why there is no information for the newly arrived refugees. He also recommended that this informatio
The respondent seemed uncomfortable with the questions and went a head and claimed that the questions where speculative. He said it would have been much better if they were asked like the personal opinion level and said at his level he could no
The respondent shared information according to his opinion successfully Among the reasons shared why abortion is high is because of high rate of unintended or unplanned for pregnancies, unemployment, lack of information among others
The respondent was comfortable with the research topic and shared information openly, he even gave an example of how he got arrested a woman who inserted a cassava stick in the uterus of a woman to induce an abortion In the discussion he said
The respondent was interested in the study and seemed very knowledgeably about the topic of discussion
The respondent was too busy in that we kept pausing the interview, he was also not knowledgeable about the surgical methods. I decided to get a social worker that is part of the refugee community I.e a refugee. Since my colleagues had worked
The respondent was welcoming and interested in the research topic he commented that he didn't have knoweldge about other methods used by new arrival refugees in the settlement When askt why the percentage for those who come back to health fac
The respondent wasn't comfortable sharing about other sources of abortions or traditional methods but gave information about abortion and post abortion care, she informed me that most of the induded abortions worked on are referrals from clinic
The respondent(ADHO) was biased about sharing information at the beginning of the interview because she said many studies are done but no outcome is implemented, I however assured her that the study will help improve the understanding of aborti
They refer all clients who need abortion services to the health center, even at the facility and many are discouraged from and they end up keeping the pregnancy. On the questions for new arrivals, for the case of bidibidi they are all long ter
This respondent is a private practitioner in a drugshop. The interview took very long because it was a very busy drugshop. We had to pause the interview several times. Also most people get medication abortion from drugshops and pharmacies. The
This settlement has not received new refugees they only have refugees that have live for more than a year, the new ones are those being born while in the settlements. Ever since the lock down,the new refugees are taken to other settlements .
Very calm, knowledgeable and resourceful person regarding study topic
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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