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Box 1 Client care scenarios

From: Professionalism, stigma, and willingness to provide patient-centered safe abortion counseling and care: a mixed methods study of Ethiopian midwives

Scenario 1: Woyzerit Miriam, an unmarried 14-year-old client, comes into your facility. She works as a housemaid in the town where this health facility is located. She asks for a contraceptive method. She also asks that you not tell her parents or other relatives or employers

Scenario 2: Woyzero Tsehai, a 24-year-old married woman with three children, comes into your health center and requests that you help her by providing safe abortion care. The health center is far from any other health facility

Scenario 3: Woyzero Selamawit, a 30-year-old unmarried woman is suffering from severe mental illness. She comes into your health center and requests that you help her by providing safe abortion care services