Outcome of mystery client visit to drug sellers by region and total, Colombia 2017
| Study area | Total | |||||
| Bogotá | Coffee Axis | |||||
| % | n | % | n | % | n | |
| (n=301) | (n=257) | (n=558) | ||||
| Outcome of visit | ||||||
| No information on misoprostol provided | 39.2 | 118 | 27.2 | 70 | 33.7 | 188 |
| Only information on misoprostol provided | 46.2 | 139 | 56.8 | 146 | 51.1 | 285 |
| Misoprostol available for purchase | 14.7 | 44 | 16 | 41 | 15.3 | 85 |
| (n=56) | (n=42) | (n=98) | ||||
| Medications client had opportunity to purchase* | ||||||
| Misoprostol only | 66.1 | 37 | 83.3 | 35 | 73.5 | 72 |
| Misoprostol+injection | 10.7 | 6 | 11.9 | 5 | 11.2 | 11 |
| Misoprostol+other drugs | 1.8 | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Non-abortifacient drugs | 21.4 | 12 | 2.4 | 1 | 13.3 | 13 |
| (n=245) | (n=215) | (n=460) | ||||
| Reasons for refusal† | ||||||
| Does not sell drugs to induce abortion | 68.2 | 167 | 81.4 | 175 | 74.3 | 342 |
| Medicine is only to be used in a health facility | 18.4 | 45 | 20.5 | 44 | 19.3 | 89 |
| Does not know what to sell for this purpose | 9.4 | 23 | 7 | 15 | 8.3 | 38 |
| Woman needs a prescription | 6.9 | 17 | 10.7 | 23 | 8.7 | 40 |
| Disagrees with abortion | 11 | 27 | 16.3 | 35 | 13.5 | 62 |
| Pregnancy too far along to terminate | 6.1 | 15 | 4.2 | 9 | 5.2 | 24 |
| No drug in stock to induce an abortion | 2.9 | 7 | 1.9 | 4 | 2.4 | 11 |
| Wants to avoid problems associated with selling misoprostol | 2.4 | 6 | 3.3 | 7 | 2.8 | 13 |
| Client is young | 1.6 | 4 | 1.4 | 3 | 1.5 | 7 |
| Seller did not give reason | 6.5 | 16 | 3.3 | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| Seller gave client a referral | ||||||
| Yes | 52.7 | 129 | 61.9 | 133 | 57 | 262 |
| No | 47.3 | 116 | 38.1 | 82 | 43 | 198 |
| (n=129) | (n=133) | (n=262) | ||||
| Types of referrals given‡ | ||||||
| Health centre or health professional | 82.2 | 106 | 70.7 | 94 | 76.3 | 200 |
| Other pharmacy | 11.6 | 15 | 26.3 | 35 | 19.1 | 50 |
| Advised to go to a seller in another city | 9.3 | 12 | 7.5 | 10 | 8.4 | 22 |
| Curandero/traditional healer | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | − | 0.8 | 2 |
*Injections include oxytocin, progesterone-based injectables and contraceptive injectables. Other pills and drugs include oral contraceptives, emergency contraception, antibiotics and other drugs not named by the seller. Unspecified pills were not identified by name, but were often described in a manner that suggests the seller was referring to misoprostol.
†Sellers may have been refusing to sell misoprostol or any medication to bring back a period/cause an abortion.
‡As respondents could select more than one option, column percentages do not add up to 100%.