Knowledge and experience of unsafe abortion among in- school adolescents in a country with restrictive abortion

Unintended pregnancies among the adolescents usually result in unsafe abortion especially in countries with restrictive abortion laws like Nigeria. We aimed at evaluating the knowledge of in-school adolescents about methods and complications of unsafe abortions and their actual experiences in Ekiti State, Nigeria. This was a cross-sectional cohort study involving 192 senior public high students across all the 16 local government areas in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Self-administered structured questionnaires were used to obtain data from participants during a summer youth camp in August, 2019. The knowledge of abortion and its complication was graded into good, fair and poor. Association between the knowledge of