A successful medical abortion project in Ethiopia

Prata and colleagues provide us with a success story of a medical abortion project in Ethiopia. The Comprehensive Abortion Care project trained all levels of health providers to provide medical abortion using misoprostol, resulting in a great reduction in complications of unsafe abortion.

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HIV testing in abortion clinics

In her Commentary, Sylvia Bates argues that we need to normalise HIV testing and make it part of our general medical care. Data suggest that testing in abortion clinics should be cost effective, and provides an opportunity for health education amongst women who are known to have high rates of other STIs. Bates' argument is further strengthened by the evidence provided by Briggs et al. of missed opportunities in colposcopy and TOP clinics in this Journal issue.

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HIV in hiding – missed opportunities for testing

In an editorial from May 2009, the Lancet highlighted “The UK's appalling failure to tackle HIV” [Lancet 2009;373(9678):1820]. At this time, National UK Surveillance data suggested that one in four individuals living with HIV were undiagnosed. Within the diagnosed population, over half were detected …