"...[R]eport on the Women?s Commission Reproductive Health Project site visit in February 2000 to the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand [Dr Cynthia?s clinic]. One key finding in this report is that reproductive health data collection has steadily improved at the Mae Tao Clinic. This is a good sign of progress as data collection is essential to establish a baseline of information about the community that a provider is assisting. The data allows the Clinic staff to objectively identify and prioritize community health problems and thereby design their health services to address these problems. In addition, the Clinic family planning program contraceptive user-rate has increased annually due to family planning education conducted by the staff. The significant unmet need for family planning services, however, is evident in the numbers of women and girls presenting to the Clinic with complications of unsafe abortion. An alarming 23% of the 277 women presenting to the Clinic with abortion complications in 1999 were under 20 years old and almost the same percentage had already had one abortion."