Table 5.

Suggestions from experts on how to reduce unsafe abortion in Zimbabwe, 2016

	%	N
Liberalize the legal status of abortion	71.2	84
Publicize the health risk involved in unsafe abortion	52.5	62
Improve the coverage and quality of PAC services	50.0	59
Improve information and access to contraception	41.5	49
Improve access to safe abortion services	34.7	41
Provide free reproductive health services	31.4	37
Further restrict the conditions under which abortion is legal	5.1	6
Prosecute unsafe abortions	6.8	8
Encourage male involvement in abortion-related services	9.3	11
Discourage premarital sex	9.3	11
Discourage abortion (e.g. through religious teaching)	5.1	6
No opinion	1.7	2
Stop prosecution of women self-inducing abortion	2.5	3
Restrict sale of misoprostol	3.4	4
Expand and improve youth focused services	1.7	2
Involve traditional providers and leaders	2.5	3
Improve sex education in schools and in community	1.7	2
Improve social support for unintended pregnancies	2.5	3
N		118

Note: Multiple responses were allowed