Methodology:

After approval of ethics committee of the institute community based study was carried out in villages of two districts of Maharashtra of India, 65 in Dharni Block of Melghat in Amravati District and 53 villages near Sewagram of Wardha District, making a total of 118 villages, with a population of around one lac ten thousand. Study subjects, women of 15-44 years from every fourthhouse, were interviewed by the research assistants. Those who had complications in relation to SA or IA were the study subjects. Informed consent for recording information on a hard tool was taken before administering the predesigned and pretested questionnaire in local language by one to one, face to face direct interviews. Responses were recorded then and there on the questionnaire. No one was given questionnaire to fill. Focus group discussions (FGDs) were also conducted in the same villages with no age or abortion criteria. All those women of villages who were willing to participate in FGDs were part of the FGDs, 8-10 in a group in anyvillage.