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Australia

• Pregnancy Advisory Centre
  • Pregnancy Advisory Centre

Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Mifepristone [2009]
  • Induced Abortion Guidelines [2006]

China

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review [2004]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Surgical versus medical methods for second trimester induced abortion
  • Surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
  • Medical versus surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
  • Medical methods for mid-trimester termination of pregnancy
  • Medical methods for first trimester abortion
  • Cervical preparation for first trimester surgical abortion
  • Antibiotics for incomplete abortion

• EngenderHealth
  • Postabortion Care

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Medabon for Medical Abortion: Resource Materials for Health Care Providers and Program Managers [2009]
  • Safe abortion

Nepal

• Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
  • Increasing Awareness and Access to Safe Abortion among Nepalese Women: An evaluation of Network for Addressing Women's Reproductive Rights in Nepal (NAWRN) Program [2009]
  • The Influence of Male Partners in Pregnancy Decision-Making and Outcomes in Nepal [2007]
  • Unsafe Abortion. Nepal Country Profile 2006 [2006]
  • Nepal Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) National Facility-based Abortion Study 2006 [2006]

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Women's Right to Choose: Partnerships for Safe Abortion in Nepal [2005]

• Safe Motherhood in Nepal
  • An Exploratory Study of Complications from CAC: Improvement of the Quality of Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) Services in Nepal [2008]
  • Safe Abortion within Safe Motherhood Programming [2007]
  • Effects of the Global Gag Rule on Safe Abortion Programming in Nepal [2007]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health UK
  • Abortion statistics, England and Wales

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Randomised preference trial of medical versus surgical termination of pregnancy less than 14 weeks' gestation (TOPS) [2009]

• Royal College of Nursing
  • Abortion care : RCN guidance for nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses [2008]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion [2011]
  • Abortion after endometrial ablation - query bank [2011]
  • Abortion in a woman with pulmonary hypertension - query bank [2009]
  • Abortion Care Study Day, 28 April 2008 [2008]

United States of America

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Reproductive Decisions [2011]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2009 [2012]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Abortion

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Postabortion Care

Vietnam

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Examining the Costs of Providing Medical Abortion in Vietnam [2006]

WHO

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Improving access to safe abortion care and related reproductive health services in the European Region [2012]

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Surgical versus medical methods for second-trimester induced abortion [2008]
  • Medical versus surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy [2006]
  • Medical methods for first trimester abortion [2004]

• World Health Organization
  • Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems [2012]
  • Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2008 [2011]
  • What health-care providers say on providing abortion care in Cape Town, South Africa: findings from a qualitative study: social science policy brief [2010]
  • Unsafe Abortion: Global and Regional Incidence, Trends, Consequences, and Challenges [2009]
  • Unsafe abortion - Global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003 - 5th edition [2007]
  • Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic [2006]
  • Preventing unsafe abortion and its consequences - Priorities for Research and Action [2006]
  • Managing incomplete abortion [2006]
  • Frequently Asked Clinical Questions about medical abortion [2006]
  • Preventing unsafe abortion

Articles in journals

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Medical Liability Insurance as a Barrier to the Provision of Abortion Services in Family Medicine [2008]

• Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Misoprostol and termination of pregnancy: is there a need for ultrasound screening in a general population to assess the risk for adverse outcome in cases of uterine anomaly? [2011]

• British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009 [2011]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Women, abortion and the new technical and policy guidance from WHO [2012]
  • Comparative effectiveness, safety and acceptability of medical abortion at home and in a clinic: a systematic review [2011]

• Human Reproduction Update
  • Mid-trimester induced abortion: a review [2007]

• International Family Planning Perspectives
  • Relationships Between Contraception and Abortion: A Review of the Evidence [2003]
  • Essential Elements of Postabortion Care: Origins, Evolution and Future Directions [2003]
  • Client-Provider Communication in Postabortion Care [2003]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
  • Medication Abortion and Family Physicians' Scope of Practice [2005]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Medical abortion for Australian women: it's time [2005]

• Reproductive Health
  • Reductions in Abortion-Related Mortality following Policy Reform: Evidence from Romania, South Africa and Bangladesh [2011]

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