Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Ethics, jurisprudence

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Abortion law

• Africa
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Facts on Abortion in Africa [2016]
• Albania
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Albania
• Andorra
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Andorra
• Argentina
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • A replication of the Uruguayan model in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a public policy for reducing abortion-related maternal mortality [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Health care providers’ opinions on abortion: a study for the implementation of the legal abortion public policy in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina [2014]
• Asia
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Facts on Abortion in Asia [2016]
• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • The abortion debate in Australia [2006]
    • Abortion and the law in Australia [2006]
  • Australian Journal of General Practice
    • Medical abortion [2020]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Towards comprehensive early abortion service delivery in high income countries: insights for improving universal access to abortion in Australia [2016]
  • Department of Health Northern Territory Government
    • NT Termination of Pregnancy Policy [2019]
    • Termination of Pregnancy Law Reform : Discussion Paper [2016]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate [2008]
    • Late-term abortion: what can be learned from Royal Women's Hospital v Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria? [2007]
    • Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing laws [2004]
  • NSW Health
    • Framework for Termination of Pregnancy in New South Wales [2021]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Online access to mifepristone and misoprostol [2018]
    • In reproductive health, is it unconscionable to object? [2018]
  • Parliament of Australia
    • Abortion Law in Australia [1998]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • O&G Magazine
    • The unfinished business of abortion law reform [2018]
• Austria
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Austria
• Bangladesh
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Menstrual Regulation and Unsafe Abortion in Bangladesh [2017]
    • Menstrual Regulation, Unsafe Abortion And Maternal Health in Bangladesh [2012]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Task-sharing in menstrual regulation services: Implementation efforts and lessons learned in Bangladesh [2020]
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • The Incidence of Menstrual Regulation Procedures And Abortion in Bangladesh, 2010 [2012]
• Belarus
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Belarus
• Belgium
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Belgium
• Bolivia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Bolivia
• Brazil
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Brazil
• Burkina Faso
  • Global Public Health
    • The politics of unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso: The interface of local norms and global public health practice [2014]
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology International
    • Social Determinants and Access to Induced Abortion in Burkina Faso: From Two Case Studies [2014]
• Cameroon
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Eliminating the high abortion related complications and deaths in Cameroon: the restrictive legal atmosphere on abortions is no acceptable excuse [2018]
• Canada
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Medication Abortion in Canada: A Right-to-Health Perspective [2008]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Therapeutic abortion counseling and provision: Are Canadian family physicians opting out? [2016]
  • CMAJ
    • Medical abortion in Canada: behind the times [2014]
  • Government of Canada
    • Abortion: constitutional and legal developments (89-10E) [1998]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • A History of Abortion in Canada: The Quest for Women's Reproductive Rights [2019]
• Central America and the Caribbean
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Contribution of the Central American and Caribbean obstetrics and gynecology societies to the prevention of unsafe abortion in the region [2014]
• Chile
  • PLoS ONE
    • Women's Education Level, Maternal Health Facilities, Abortion Legislation and Maternal Deaths: A Natural Experiment in Chile from 1957 to 2007 [2012]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Chile
• China
  • Reproductive Health
    • Illegal births and legal abortions - the case of China [2005]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in China
• Colombia
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • The Cost of Postabortion Care and Legal Abortion In Colombia [2013]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Colombia
• Cyprus
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Cyprus
• Czech Republic
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in the Czech Republic
• Denmark
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Denmark
• Dominican Republic
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in the Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Ecuador
• El Salvador
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Patient Privacy and Conflicting Legal and Ethical Obligations in El Salvador: Reporting of Unlawful Abortions [2006]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in El Salvador
• Estonia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Estonia
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Determinants of first and second trimester induced abortion - results from a cross-sectional study taken place 7 years after abortion law revisions in Ethiopia [2014]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Induced Abortion and Postabortion Care in Ethiopia [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Awareness of female students attending higher educational institutions toward legalization of safe abortion and associated factors, Harari Region, Eastern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study [2015]
• Europe
  • PLoS ONE
    • Divergent Trends in Abortion and Birth Control Practices in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine [2012]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Abortion in Europe [2005]
• Finland
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Finland
• France
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in France
• Germany
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Germany
• Ghana
  • African Journal of Reproductive Health
    • Abortion care in Ghana: A critical review of the literature [2014]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Stigmatized by association: challenges for abortion service providers in Ghana [2016]
  • Ghana Medical Journal
    • Overview of the Law and Availability of Abortion Services in Ghana [2006]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in Ghana [2013]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • The impact of Ghana’s R3M programme on the provision of safe abortions and postabortion care [2014]
• Greece
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Greece
• Guatemala
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Guatemala
• Guyana
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Guyana
• Hungary
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Hungary
• Iceland
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Iceland
• India
  • Global Health Action
    • The importance of considering the evidence in the MTP 2014 Amendment debate in India – unsubstantiated arguments should not impede improved access to safe abortion [2015]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in India: A Literature Review [2014]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Adapting the WHO recommendations on health worker roles for safe abortion to a country setting: A case study from India [2020]
• Indonesia
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in Indonesia [2008]
• International
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • International developments in abortion law from 1988 to 1998 [1999]
  • Best Practice & Research: Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Global Abortion Policies Database: A descriptive analysis of the regulatory and policy environment related to abortion [2019]
  • BMC International Health and Human Rights
    • Global Abortion Policies Database: a descriptive analysis of the legal categories of lawful abortion [2018]
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam [2014]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • The magnitude and severity of abortion-related morbidity in settings with limited access to abortion services: a systematic review and meta-regression [2018]
  • Contraception
    • Access to safe abortion: progress and challenges since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) [2014]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Facts on Induced Abortion Worldwide [2016]
  • International Family Planning Perspectives
    • Developments in Laws on Induced Abortion: 1998–2007 [2008]
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • Legal Abortion Levels and Trends By Woman’s Age at Termination [2012]
    • Legal Abortion Worldwide in 2008: Levels and Recent Trends [2011]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Implementing and expanding safe abortion care: an international comparative case study of six countries [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Women’s Awareness and Knowledge of Abortion Laws: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Access to abortion under the health exception: a comparative analysis in three countries [2018]
    • Reductions in Abortion-Related Mortality following Policy Reform: Evidence from Romania, South Africa and Bangladesh [2011]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion law
    • Abortion by country
• Iran
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • Characteristics of women applying for a legal abortion in the Islamic Republic of Iran [2018]
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Therapeutic abortion in Islam: contemporary views of Muslim Shiite scholars and effect of recent Iranian legislation [2006]
• Ireland
  • Department of Health Ireland
    • Policy Paper on Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy [2018]
    • General Scheme of a Bill to Regulate Termination of Pregnancy [2018]
• Israel
  • Ministry of Health Israel
    • Induced Abortion
• Italy
  • Medicina
    • Is the Right to Abortion at Risk in Times of COVID-19? The Italian State of Affairs within the European Context [2021]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Italy
• Japan
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Japan
• Kenya
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • The estimated incidence of induced abortion in Kenya: a cross-sectional study [2015]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Kenya [2012]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • ‘High profile health facilities can add to your trouble’: Women, stigma and un/safe abortion in Kenya [2015]
• Latin America
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Human rights and the right to abortion in Latin America [2014]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Latin American women’s experiences with medical abortion in settings where abortion is legally restricted [2012]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Facts on Abortion in Latin America And the Caribbean [2016]
• Malawi
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Malawi [2017]
• Mexico
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City: The effects on women's reproductive rights [2013]
  • BMJ Open
    • Abortion legislation, maternal healthcare, fertility, female literacy, sanitation, violence against women and maternal deaths: a natural experiment in 32 Mexican states [2015]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Facts on Induced Abortion in Mexico [2008]
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • Incidence of Induced Abortion by Age and State, Mexico, 2009: New Estimates Using a Modified Methodology [2012]
• Monaco
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Monaco
• Namibia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Namibia
• Nepal
  • BMC Women's Health
    • “I need to terminate this pregnancy even if it will take my life”: a qualitative study of the effect of being denied legal abortion on women’s lives in Nepal [2015]
  • Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
    • Service Provider’s Perspective on Factors Denying Legal Abortion in Nepal [2017]
    • Expanding Safe Abortion Access: Concerted Efforts Needed to Overcome Existing Barriers [2011]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Effects of Abortion Legalization in Nepal, 2001–2010 [2013]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Knowledge on legislation of abortion and experience of abortion among female youth in Nepal: A cross sectional study [2016]
    • Implementation of legal abortion in Nepal: a model for rapid scale-up of high-quality care [2012]
• Netherlands
  • Global Journal of Health Science
    • Termination of Pregnancy in Curaçao: Need for Improvement of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2012]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in the Netherlands
• New Zealand
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Interim Standards for Abortion Services in New Zealand [2020]
  • O&G Magazine
    • NZ’s abortion law: time for change [2018]
• Nicaragua
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Nicaragua
• Nigeria
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in Nigeria [2015]
    • Reducing Unsafe Abortion in Nigeria [2008]
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • The Incidence of Abortion in Nigeria [2015]
• Norway
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Norway
• Pakistan
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unsafe Abortion and Postabortion Care In Pakistan [2013]
    • Postabortion Care in Pakistan [2013]
    • Facts on Induced Abortion in Pakistan [2009]
• Panama
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Panama
• Papua New Guinea
  • PLoS ONE
    • Hospital Admission following Induced Abortion in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea – A Descriptive Study [2014]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Unsafe abortion requiring hospital admission in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea - a descriptive study of women’s and health care workers’ experiences [2015]
• Paraguay
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Paraguay
• Peru
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Peru
• Philippines
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines: Context and Consequences [2013]
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion in the Philippines [2013]
• Poland
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Poland
• Portugal
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Portugal
• Romania
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Romania
• Russia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Russia
• Rwanda
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Rwanda [2013]
    • Abortion in Rwanda [2013]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Journal of Clinical Neonatology
    • Aborting a Malformed Fetus: A Debatable Issue in Saudi Arabia [2012]
• Senegal
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in Senegal [2015]
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • Estimates of the Incidence of Induced Abortion And Consequences of Unsafe Abortion in Senegal [2015]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Rewriting abortion: deploying medical records in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal [2014]
• Slovakia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Slovakia
• South Africa
  • Medical History
    • ‘The Trial the World is Watching’: The 1972 Prosecution of Derk Crichton and James Watts, Abortion, and the Regulation of the Medical Profession in Apartheid South Africa [2014]
  • Reproductive Health
    • An exploratory study of what happens to women who are denied abortions in Cape Town, South Africa [2015]
    • Conscientious objection and its impact on abortion service provision in South Africa: a qualitative study [2014]
• South-East Asia
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Achievements of the FIGO Initiative for the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences in South-Southeast Asia [2014]
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Mapping abortion policies, programmes and services in the South-East Asia Region [2013]
• Spain
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Spain
• Suriname
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Suriname
• Sweden
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Sweden
• Switzerland
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Switzerland
• Tanzania
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unsafe Abortion in Tanzania: A Review of the Evidence [2013]
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
  • PLoS ONE
    • ‘This Is Real Misery’: Experiences of Women Denied Legal Abortion in Tunisia [2015]
• Turkey
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Abortion in Turkey: women in rural areas and the law [2008]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Turkey
• Uganda
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • The Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [2017]
    • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Uganda [2017]
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Uganda [2013]
  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • Documenting the Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [2013]
  • Reproductive Health
    • The discourses on induced abortion in Ugandan daily newspapers: a discourse analysis [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Guidance for doctors on compliance with the Abortion Act
    • Gender birth ratios statistics
    • Abortion: procedures for approval of independent providers
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
    • The regulatory cliff edge between contraception and abortion: the legal and moral significance of implantation [2015]
  • Legislation.gov.uk
    • Abortion Act 1967 [1967]
  • Medical History
    • “A Fifth Freedom” or “Hideous Atheistic Expediency”? The Medical Community and Abortion Law Reform in Scotland, c.1960–1975 [2006]
  • Medical Law Review
    • Risks, reasons and rights: the European convention on human rights and English abortion law [2015]
  • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
    • The Decriminalisation of Abortion: An Argument for Modernisation [2016]
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Termination of Pregnancy (Induced Abortion) [2020]
    • RCN Guidance - Conscientious Objection (Termination of pregnancy) [2020]
• Uruguay
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • The role of medical abortion in the implementation of the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy in Uruguay [2016]
    • From risk and harm reduction to decriminalizing abortion: The Uruguayan model for women’s rights [2016]
• United States of America
  • AMA Journal of Ethics
    • Fetal Pain Legislation [2014]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Care When Considering Abortion [2017]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Increasing Access to Abortion [2020]
    • Decriminalization of Self-Induced Abortion [2017]
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
    • Abortion
  • Contraception
    • Change in abortion services after implementation of a restrictive law in Texas [2014]
  • Demography
    • The Effect of Anti-Abortion Legislation on Nineteenth Century Fertility [2014]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • State Facts About Abortion [2017]
    • An Overview of Abortion Laws [2017]
    • United States Pregnancy
    • United States Abortion
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Consensus guidelines for facilities performing outpatient procedures: Evidence over ideology [2019]
• Venezuela
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Venezuela
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Abortion in the Western Pacific Region - 2017 [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • A global database of abortion laws, policies, health standards and guidelines [2017]
    • Safe abortion: Technical & policy guidance for health systems. Legal and policy considerations - Key messages [2015]
    • Global Abortion Policies Database
• Zambia
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unsafe Abortion in Zambia [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Induced abortion

Cloning, stem cells

• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Stem cells in reproductive medicine: ready for the patient? [2015]
• International
  • International Society for Stem Cell Research
    • ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation: The 2021 update [2021]
    • Setting Global Standards for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation: The 2016 ISSCR Guidelines [2016]
    • Guidelines for stem cell research and clinical translation [2016]
• Malaysia
  • Medical Journal of Malaysia
    • Stem Cell Transplantation in Malaysia and Future Directions [2008]
• Pakistan
  • International Journal of Stem Cells
    • Stem Cell Research in Pakistan; Past, Present and Future [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Stem Cell Therapies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2013]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) and Human Embryo Research [2012]
    • Human Embryo Research [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Umbilical cord blood banking
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: reproductive techniques
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology

Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn

• Australia
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Perinatal care at the borderlines of viability: a consensus statement based on a NSW and ACT consensus workshop [2006]
  • NSW Health
    • Prevention of termination of pregnancy for the sole purpose of sex selection [2021]
  • O&G Magazine
    • Issues of consent for fetal pathology [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Perinatal care of extremely preterm baby
  • Reproductive Health
    • Factors influencing the care provided for periviable babies in Australia: a narrative review [2015]
• Canada
  • BMC Research Notes
    • A transdisciplinary approach to the decision-making process in extreme prematurity [2014]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Counselling and management for anticipated extremely preterm birth [2017]
  • CMAJ
    • Sex ratios at birth after induced abortion [2016]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Management of the Mother / Fetus and Newborn Near the Threshold of Neonatal Viability (22 – 25 Completed Weeks) [2016]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Fetal Sex Determination and Disclosure Policy Statement [2017]
• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • ESHRE Task Force on ethics and Law 20: sex selection for non-medical reasons [2013]
  • European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
    • Rights of infants, parents, and families in difficult decisions [2018]
    • Palliative care [2018]
    • Decisions of withholding or withdrawing life support [2018]
    • Communication in ethically complex decisions [2018]
• Iran
  • Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
    • Compilation of the neonatal palliative care clinical guideline in neonatal intensive care unit [2015]
• Italy
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Recommendations for neonatologists and pediatricians working in first level birthing centers on the first communication of genetic disease and malformation syndrome diagnosis: consensus issued by 6 Italian scientific societies and 4 parents’ associations [2021]
• Nepal
  • Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
    • Policy Brief: Legal Landscape: Gender-biased Sex Selection in Nepal [2020]
    • Breaking the Barriers: Safeguarding the Rights of Girl Infants [2017]
    • Understanding Factors influencing Adverse sex ratios at birth and Exploring what works to achieve balance: The situation in Selected districts of Nepal [2015]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Preferred prenatal counselling at the limits of viability: a survey among Dutch perinatal professionals [2018]
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
    • Professionals’ preferences in prenatal counseling at the limits of viability: a nationwide qualitative Dutch study [2017]
    • Perinatal practice in extreme premature delivery: variation in Dutch physicians’ preferences despite guideline [2016]
  • Hippokratia
    • Involuntary euthanasia of severely ill newborns: is the Groningen Protocol really dangerous? [2014]
• Singapore
  • Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
    • Maternal and fetal best interests in day-to-day obstetrics [2011]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Perinatal care at the limit of viability between 22 and 26 completed weeks of gestation in Switzerland. 2011 revision of the Swiss recommendations [2011]
  • Swiss Society of Neonatology
    • Perinatal care at the limit of viability between 22 and 26 completed weeks of gestation in Switzerland [2011]
• United Kingdom
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    • Babies born at the threshold of viability: changes in survival and workload over 20 years [2012]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Perinatal Management of Pregnant Women at the Threshold of Infant Viability [2014]
    • Registration of stillbirths and certification for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks of gestation [2005]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Noninitiation or Withdrawal of Intensive Care for High-Risk Newborns [2015]
    • Antenatal Counseling Regarding Resuscitation and Intensive Care Before 25 Weeks of Gestation [2015]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Perinatal Palliative Care [2019]
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Neonatal End-of-Life Symptom Management [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Newborn
    • Induced abortion
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: reproductive techniques
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology

Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology

• Africa
  • Globalization and Health
    • Community empowerment and involvement of female sex workers in targeted sexual and reproductive health interventions in Africa: a systematic review [2014]
• Australia
  • International Breastfeeding Journal
    • Breast milk donation after neonatal death in Australia: a report [2014]
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
    • Female genital cosmetic surgery – A resource for general practitioners and other health professionals [2015]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Placentophagy [2019]
    • The Presence of a Third Party During Breast and Pelvic Examinations [2017]
    • Pelvic Examinations by Medical Students [2017]
    • Maternity Leave in Normal Pregnancy [2017]
    • Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery [2013]
• Eastern and Southern Africa
  • Global Health Action
    • Gender equity and sexual and reproductive health in Eastern and Southern Africa: a critical overview of the literature [2014]
• Egypt
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Monitoring socioeconomic inequity in maternal health indicators in Egypt: 1995-2005 [2009]
• Europe
  • Reproductive Health
    • Discrimination against childbearing Romani women in maternity care in Europe: a mixed-methods systematic review [2017]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Women's health in prisons : action guidance and checklists to review current policies and practices [2011]
    • How health systems can accelerate progress towards Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5 on child and maternal health by promoting gender equity : briefing on policy issues produced through the WHO/European Commission equity project [2010]
    • Checklist for assessing the gender responsiveness of sexual and reproductive health policies : pilot document for adaptation to national contexts [2010]
• India
  • Global Health Action
    • Inequity in India: the case of maternal and reproductive health [2013]
• International
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Interventions addressing men, masculinities and gender equality in sexual and reproductive health and rights: an evidence and gap map and systematic review of reviews [2019]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Ethical Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology [2015]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • When accountability meets power: realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights [2020]
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • IMAP statement on COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2020]
    • IMAP Statement on sexual and reproductive health and rights of the ageing population [2018]
    • IMAP statement on conscientious objection: refusal of care and professional conduct of reproductive health services in the context of legal restrictions [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • How Are Gender Equality and Human Rights Interventions Included in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes and Policies: A Systematic Review of Existing Research Foci and Gaps [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Virginity testing: a systematic review [2017]
  • UN Women
    • Promoting gender equality in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health: Programming guide [2019]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights [2020]
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: An Essential Element of Universal Health Coverage [2019]
    • From Commitment to Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2019]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Ethnic group inequalities in coverage with reproductive, maternal and child health interventions: cross-sectional analyses of national surveys in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries [2018]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Ethical tensions in the informed consent process for randomized clinical trials in emergency obstetric and newborn care in low and middle-income countries [2019]
  • BMC Public Health
    • What interventions are effective on reducing inequalities in maternal and child health in low- and middle-income settings? A systematic review [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Broadening understanding of accountability ecosystems in sexual and reproductive health and rights: A systematic review [2018]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Family planning, antenatal and delivery care: cross-sectional survey evidence on levels of coverage and inequalities by public and private sector in 57 low- and middle-income countries [2016]
• Nicaragua, El Salvador
  • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
    • Incorporating human rights into reproductive health care provider education programs in Nicaragua and El Salvador [2013]
• Norway
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • The consistency of experts' evaluation of obstetric claims for compensation [2014]
• Portugal
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Medico-legal litigation in Obstetrics: a characterization analysis of a decade in Portugal [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Service Standards for Confidentiality in Sexual and Reproductive Health Services [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Obtaining Valid Consent to Participate in Perinatal Research Where Consent is Time Critical [2016]
    • Obtaining Valid Consent [2015]
    • Joint RCOG/BritSPAG release: Issues surrounding women and girls undergoing female genital cosmetic surgery explored [2013]
    • Obtaining Valid Consent to Participate in Research While in Labour [2010]
    • Obtaining Valid Consent for Complex Gynaecological Surgery [2010]
• United States of America
  • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
    • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement and Guideline: Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender [2021]
    • ABM Clinical Protocol #33: Lactation Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Plus Patients [2020]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nonpregnant Individuals [2021]
    • Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making in Obstetrics and Gynecology [2021]
    • Sexual Misconduct [2020]
    • Legal Considerations in Genetic Screening and Testing: Three Case Studies [2020]
    • Elective Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery [2019]
    • Restrictions to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care [2018]
    • Importance of Social Determinants of Health and Cultural Awareness in the Delivery of Reproductive Health Care [2018]
    • Ethical Considerations for Performing Gynecologic Surgery in Low-Resource Settings Abroad [2018]
    • Employment Considerations During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2018]
    • Refusal of Medically Recommended Treatment During Pregnancy [2016]
    • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obstetrics and Gynecology [2015]
• Vietnam
  • BMC Public Health
    • Causes and determinants of inequity in maternal and child health in Vietnam [2012]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Sexual and reproductive health interventions in the WHO UHC Compendium [2021]
    • Economic and financing considerations of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights [2020]
    • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) [2020]
    • WHO consolidated guideline on self-care interventions for health: sexual and reproductive health and rights [2019]
    • WHO meeting on ethical, legal, human rights and social accountability implications of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health [2018]
    • Eliminating virginity testing: An interagency statement [2018]
    • Statement on the promotion, protection and fulfilment of sexual and reproductive health and rights [2017]
    • Sexual and reproductive health during protracted crises and recovery [2011]
    • Sexual and reproductive health core competencies in primary care: attitudes, knowledge, ethics, human rights, leadership, management, teamwork, community work, education, counselling, clinical settings, service, provision [2011]
    • WHO's strategic vision in sexual and reproductive health and rights: business plan 2010-2015 [2010]
    • Policy approaches to engaging men and boys in achieving gender equality and health equity [2010]
    • Evaluation of the WHO training initiative: transforming health systems: gender and rights in reproductive health 1997-2007 [2010]
    • Women’s health and human rights: monitoring the implementation of CEDAW [2007]
    • Advancing Safe Motherhood through Human Rights [2001]
    • Considerations for formulating reproductive health laws [2000]
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sterilization
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Induced abortion
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: reproductive techniques
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn
    • Cloning, stem cells
    • Adolescence

Ethics, jurisprudence: reproductive techniques

• Australia
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Ethical guidelines for Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Embryo research licensing
  • Queensland Law Handbook
    • Surrogacy and In Vitro Fertilisation
  • WA Health, Government of Western Australia
    • The Review of the Western Australian Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991 and the Surrogacy Act 2008 [2019]
• Brazil
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • Assisted Conception Services and Regulation within the Brazilian Context [2015]
• Canada
  • Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society
    • Guidelines for Third Party Reproduction [2016]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Assisted reproduction involving gestational surrogacy: an analysis of the medical, psychosocial and legal issues: experience from a large surrogacy program [2014]
  • Reproductive Health Matters
    • Hidden from view: Canadian gestational surrogacy practices and outcomes, 2001-2012 [2016]
• China
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Surrogacy: a family-building option in search of legitimacy [2016]
• Costa Rica
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Moderating Influence of International Courts on Social Movements: Evidence from the IVF Case Against Costa Rica [2017]
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • IVF in Costa Rica [2017]
• Estonia
  • Reproductive Health
    • Quality of IVF status registration in the Estonian Medical Birth Registry: a national record linkage study [2018]
• Europe
  • BioMed Research International
    • The Evolution of Legislation in the Field of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Embryo Stem Cell Research in European Union Members [2014]
  • European Society of Human Genetics
    • Current issues in medically assisted reproduction and genetics in Europe: research, clinical practice, ethics, legal issues and policy [2013]
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • ethics of preconception expanded carrier screening in patients seeking assisted reproduction [2021]
    • ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 23: medically assisted reproduction in singles, lesbian and gay couples, and transsexual people [2014]
    • ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 21: genetic screening of gamete donors: ethical issues [2014]
    • Intrafamilial medically assisted reproduction [2011]
    • ESHRE's good practice guide for cross-border reproductive care for centers and practitioners [2011]
    • Lifestyle-related factors and access to medically assisted reproduction [2010]
    • ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 12: Oocyte donation for non-reproductive purposes [2007]
    • Statements by the Task Force Ethics and Law
• Iceland
  • Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
    • Legalizing altruistic surrogacy in response to evasive travel? An Icelandic proposal [2016]
• India
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Regulation of surrogacy in India: whenceforth now? [2018]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016: A commentary [2018]
    • Ending commercial surrogacy in India: significance of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 [2018]
    • Assisted reproductive technologies: Conundrums and challenges [2018]
  • Indian Journal of Public Health
    • Surrogacy and women's right to health in India: Issues and perspective [2013]
  • Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences
    • Upper age limit for assisted reproductive technologies: Ethics opinion [2018]
    • Insight into Different Aspects of Surrogacy Practices [2018]
    • Postmortem sperm retrieval in context of developing countries of Indian subcontinent [2016]
  • Qualitative Social Work
    • The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on surrogacy in India: The role of social work [2021]
• Iran
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • The process of justifying assisted reproductive technologies in Iran [2015]
  • Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine
    • Using fertile couples as embryo donors: An ethical dilemma [2014]
  • Journal of Reproduction & Infertility
    • Embryo Donation in Iranian Legal System: A Critical Review [2015]
• Ireland
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • The evolution of health policy guidelines for assisted reproduction in the Republic of Ireland, 2004-2009 [2011]
• Israel
  • Ministry of Health Israel
    • Fertility Treatments and Surrogacy
  • Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
    • Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel [2016]
• Israel, Austria
  • Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
    • Patterns of globalized reproduction: Egg cells regulation in Israel and Austria [2012]
• Italy
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Italian law on medically assisted reproduction: do women’s autonomy and health matter? [2016]
  • Journal of Public Health Research
    • Medically Assisted Procreation and Fast-Moving Developments in Science and Law: Ethical and Legal Issues in Heterologous Procreation in Italy [2015]
  • La Clinica Terapeutica
    • 2014-2017. How medically assisted reproduction changed in Italy. A short comparative synthesis with European countries [2017]
  • Open Medicine
    • Ethical and Legal Issues in Gestational Surrogacy [2018]
• New Zealand
  • Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Publications and resources
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Second Round of Consultation on the Proposed Donation and Surrogacy Guidelines: further changes since ACART’s 2017 consultation [2019]
    • Posthumous Reproduction: A review of the current Guidelines for the Storage, Use, and Disposal of Sperm from a Deceased Man to take into account gametes and embryos [2018]
    • Informed Consent and Assisted Reproductive Technology: Proposed advice to the Minister of Health: Consultation document [2015]
• Nigeria
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Parenthood: Is the law in Nigeria fit for assisted reproductive technology? [2018]
  • Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
    • Ethical issues in newer assisted reproductive technologies: A view from Nigeria [2015]
• Portugal
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • The new Portuguese law on surrogacy - The story of how a promising law does not really regulate surrogacy arrangements [2017]
• Singapore
  • Singapore Medical Journal
    • Application of legal principles and medical ethics: multifetal pregnancy and fetal reduction [2014]
• South Africa
  • South African Medical Journal
    • Posthumous conception: Recent legal developments in South Africa [2018]
  • Southern African Society of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endoscopy
    • SASREG guidelines for Egg Donation agencies  [2018]
• Sweden
  • Bioethics
    • Positioning uterus transplantation as a ‘more ethical’ alternative to surrogacy: Exploring symmetries between uterus transplantation and surrogacy through analysis of a Swedish government white paper [2018]
• Taiwan
  • Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • A survey of judicial decisions concerning surrogacy disputes in Taiwan [2018]
• Thailand
  • Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health
    • Protection for Children Born Through Assisted Reproductive Technologies Act, B.E. 2558: The Changing Profile of Surrogacy in Thailand [2017]
• Turkey
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Opportunities for reproductive tourism: cost and quality advantages of Turkey in the provision of in-vitro Fertilization (IVF) services [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Having a child through surrogacy
  • Human Reproduction
    • What can we learn from a decade of promoting safe embryo transfer practices? A comparative analysis of policies and outcomes in the UK and Australia, 2001–2010 [2013]
  • Legislation.gov.uk
    • The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 [2015]
  • Life Sciences, Society and Policy
    • Sharpening the cutting edge: additional considerations for the UK debates on embryonic interventions for mitochondrial diseases [2017]
  • Public Health England
    • Human fertilisation and embryology
  • Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
    • Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction? [2017]
• United States of America, United Kingdom
  • EMBO Molecular Medicine
    • Ethical and legal issues in mitochondrial transfer [2016]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction [2017]
    • Family Building Through Gestational Surrogacy [2016]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Kamakahi vs ASRM and the future of compensation for human eggs [2015]
    • Creating and Selling Embryos for “Donation”: Ethical Challenges [2014]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Recommendations for practices utilizing gestational carriers: a committee opinion [2017]
    • Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services: an Ethics Committee opinion [2017]
    • Provision of fertility services for women at increased risk of complications during fertility treatment or pregnancy: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Oocyte or embryo donation to women of advanced reproductive age: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Financial “risk-sharing” or refund programs in assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Financial compensation of oocyte donors: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Cross-border reproductive care: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Disparities in access to effective treatment for infertility in the United States: an Ethics Committee opinion [2015]
    • Access to fertility services by transgender persons: an Ethics Committee opinion [2015]
    • Embryo Donation
    • Egg Donation
  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
    • “One for Sorrow, Two for Joy?”: American embryo transfer guideline recommendations, practices, and outcomes for gestational surrogate patients [2017]
  • Journal of Reproductive Medicine
    • Egg Donation Brokers [2014]
  • Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online
    • Differences in the utilization of gestational surrogacy between states in the U.S. [2018]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Current practices and controversies in assisted reproduction [2002]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Preimplantation diagnosis
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn
    • Cloning, stem cells
    • Assisted reproductive techniques

HIV/AIDS: ethical and legal issues, stigma and discrimination

• Africa
  • UNAIDS
    • Towards intensified African Union–United Nations cooperation for the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence and protecting the health and rights of women and children in humanitarian settings [2018]
    • HIV, the Law and Human Rights in the African Human Rights System: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Rights-Based Responses — Report on the Study of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights [2018]
• Asia, Pacific
  • UNAIDS
    • Legal and policy trends impacting people living with HIV and key populations in Asia and the Pacific 2014–2019 [2021]
• Australia
  • Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
    • Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies for Health Care Professionals [2019]
    • Sexual transmission of HIV and the law: an Australian medical consensus statement [2016]
  • NSW Health
    • NSW Health Guide to Managing HIV Information [2019]
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Discrimination, stigma, and AIDS: a review of academic literature produced in Brazil (2005-2010) [2012]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • AIDS advocacy and intellectual property regulation in Brazil: information and influence [2014]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Strange Bedfellows: The Catholic Church and Brazilian National AIDS Program in the Response to HIV/AIDS in Brazil [2011]
• Burkina Faso
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • NGO-provided free HIV treatment and services in Burkina Faso: scarcity, therapeutic rationality and unfair process [2012]
• Canada
  • Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
    • Publications
  • Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
    • Canadian consensus statement on HIV and its transmission in the context of criminal law [2014]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • The impact of criminalization of HIV non-disclosure on the healthcare engagement of women living with HIV in Canada: a comprehensive review of the evidence [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Gender Inequities in Quality of Care among HIV-Positive Individuals Initiating Antiretroviral Treatment in British Columbia, Canada (2000–2010) [2014]
• Chad
  • Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
    • Access to antiretroviral treatment, issues of well-being and public health governance in Chad: what justifies the limited success of the universal access policy? [2013]
• China
  • PLoS ONE
    • Stigma against People Living with HIV/AIDS in China: Does the Route of Infection Matter? [2016]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • HIV basic knowledge and stigma reduction in health care settings: module 4. HIV care and psychosocial support [2015]
    • HIV basic knowledge and stigma reduction in health care settings: module 3. HIV testing and counselling and ethics [2015]
    • HIV basic knowledge and stigma reduction in health care settings: module 2. natural history and clinical aspects [2015]
    • HIV basic knowledge and stigma reduction in health care settings: module 1. HIV epidemiology, transmission and prevention [2015]
• Ethiopia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Evaluation of a guideline developed to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings and establishing consensus [2018]
• Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Evidence brief: Impact of stigma and discrimination on access to HIV services in Europe [2017]
    • Evidence brief: HIV and laws and policies in Europe [2017]
• Europe, Central Asia
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • Thematic report: HIV and migrants [2017]
• International
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • HIV Among Indigenous peoples: A Review of the Literature on HIV-Related Behaviour Since the Beginning of the Epidemic [2015]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Law, criminalisation and HIV in the world: have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful pandemic response? [2021]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Lower Levels of Antiretroviral Therapy Enrollment Among Men with HIV Compared with Women — 12 Countries, 2002–2013 [2015]
  • International Labour Organization
    • HIV and AIDS
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Expert consensus statement on the science of HIV in the context of criminal law [2018]
  • PLoS Medicine
    • Antiretroviral Therapy for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Call for Equity [2014]
  • UNAIDS
    • HIV criminalization — Human rights fact sheet series 2021 [2021]
    • HIV and transgender and other gender-diverse people — Human rights fact sheet series 2021 [2021]
    • HIV and stigma and discrimination — Human rights fact sheet series 2021 [2021]
    • HIV and people in prisons and other closed settings — Human rights fact sheet series 2021 [2021]
    • Ethical considerations in HIV prevention trials [2021]
    • End Inequalities. End AIDS. Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 [2021]
    • 2021 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update — Confronting inequalities — Lessons for pandemic responses from 40 years of AIDS [2021]
    • We’ve got the power — Women, adolescent girls and the HIV response [2020]
    • Fact sheet — Zero discrimination against women and girls [2020]
    • Evidence for eliminating HIV-related stigma and discrimination — Guidance for countries to implement effective programmes to eliminate HIV-related stigma and discrimination in six settings [2020]
    • Community innovations [2020]
    • 2020 Global AIDS Update - Seizing the moment - Tackling entrenched inequalities to end epidemics [2020]
    • UNAIDS Gender Action Plan - First progress report [2019]
    • The Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Assessment Tool: Protecting personal health information [2019]
    • Still not welcome — HIV-related travel restrictions [2019]
    • Rights-based monitoring and evaluation of national HIV responses [2019]
    • Zero Discrimination Day 2018 [2018]
    • Women and girls and HIV [2018]
    • UNAIDS: Accelerating progress towards gender equality in the UN system and beyond [2018]
    • UNAIDS Gender Assessment Tool — Towards a gender-transformative HIV response [2018]
    • UNAIDS Gender Action Plan 2018–2023 — A framework for accountability [2018]
    • Social protection: a Fast-Track commitment to end AIDS — Guidance for policy-makers, and people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV [2018]
    • Miles to go—closing gaps, breaking barriers, righting injustices [2018]
    • Fast-Track and human rights — Advancing human rights in efforts to accelerate the response to HIV [2017]
    • Disability and HIV [2017]
    • Confronting discrimination [2017]
    • Addressing a blind spot in the response to HIV — Reaching out to men and boys [2017]
    • Sustaining the human rights response to HIV [2015]
    • Social protection: advancing the response to HIV [2015]
    • Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention - Operational Guidelines [2013]
    • Ending overly broad criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission: Critical scientific, medical and legal considerations [2013]
    • Ethical considerations in biomedical HIV prevention trials [2012]
    • Human rights-based approach to ending AIDS as a public health threat
  • United Nations
    • Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track to End AIDS by 2030 [2021]
• Kenya
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The HIV and AIDS Tribunal of Kenya: An Effective Mechanism for the Enforcement of HIV-related Human Rights? [2016]
• Latin America
  • PLoS ONE
    • Levels of Spending and Resource Allocation to HIV Programs and Services in Latin America and the Caribbean [2011]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • UNAIDS
    • Regional indicators to measure progress towards zero discrimination — Additional guidance for Latin American and Caribbean countries — Global AIDS Monitoring 2021 [2020]
• Lebanon
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Ethical Considerations in HIV/AIDS Biobehavioral Surveys That Use Respondent-Driven Sampling: Illustrations From Lebanon [2009]
• Lesotho
  • AIDS Care
    • Socioeconomic determinants of stigmatization and HIV testing in Lesotho [2013]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Impact of community-based support services on antiretroviral treatment programme delivery and outcomes in resource-limited countries: a synthetic review [2012]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • ‘Management of a spoiled identity’: systematic review of interventions to address self-stigma among people living with and affected by HIV [2019]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • HIV treatment and care in resource-constrained environments: challenges for the next decade [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Significant association between perceived HIV related stigma and late presentation for HIV/AIDS care in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2017]
• Malawi
  • Global Health Action
    • Socio-economic inequity in HIV testing in Malawi [2016]
• Mozambique
  • SAHARA-J
    • Consensus on context-specific strategies for reducing the stigma of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zambézia Province, Mozambique [2013]
• Nigeria
  • African Journal of Reproductive Health
    • HIV/AIDS - Related Stigma and Discrimination in Nigeria: Review of Research Studies and future directions for Prevention Strategies [2010]
  • AIDS Research and Treatment
    • HIV-Stigma in Nigeria: Review of Research Studies, Policies, and Programmes [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • HIV/AIDS Related Stigma and Discrimination against PLWHA in Nigerian Population [2015]
• Senegal
  • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
    • Potential Impact of Integrated Stigma Mitigation Interventions in Improving HIV/AIDS Service Delivery and Uptake for Key Populations in Senegal [2016]
• South Africa
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Informed consent for HIV cure research in South Africa: issues to consider [2015]
    • Enrolling adolescents in HIV vaccine trials: Reflections on legal complexities from South Africa [2007]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Equity in utilization of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected people in South Africa: a systematic review [2014]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Finding solid ground: law enforcement, key populations and their health and rights in South Africa [2016]
  • Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine
    • Be legally wise: When is parental consent required for adolescents’ access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)? [2020]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • HIV Treatment Scale-Up and HIV-Related Stigma in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Analysis [2015]
  • BMC International Health and Human Rights
    • HIV testing and care in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda: ethics on the ground [2013]
• Thailand
  • PLoS ONE
    • Improving Ethical and Participatory Practice for Marginalized Populations in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials: Lessons from Thailand [2014]
• United Kingdom, Ireland
  • Social History of Medicine
    • AIDS Inside and Out: HIV/AIDS and Penal Policy in Ireland and England & Wales in the 1980s and 1990s [2020]
• United States of America
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • HIV-Related Stigma Research as a Priority at the National Institutes of Health [2021]
  • AMA Journal of Ethics
    • Should There Be a Disclosure Mandate for Physicians Caring for Perinatally Infected Adolescents Who Don’t Know Their HIV Serostatus? [2018]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure: Research and Policy Agenda [2013]
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Perspectives on the ethical concerns and justifications of the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV testing: HIV screening policy changes [2013]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • HIV and the Law
• Vietnam
  • Global Public Health
    • Social science research of HIV in Vietnam: A critical review and future directions [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Practices in security and confidentiality of HIV/AIDS patients’ information: A national survey among staff at HIV outpatient clinics in Vietnam [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • HIV/AIDS - stand up for human rights [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • HIV/AIDS

Umbilical cord blood banking

• Australia
  • NSW Health
    • Cord Blood - Public and Private Cord Blood Banking [2015]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Umbilical Cord Blood: Counselling, Collection, and Banking [2015]
• Europe
  • Haematologica
    • Family-directed umbilical cord blood banking [2011]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2018]
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Informed consent for cord blood donation. A theoretical and empirical study [2011]
• Malaysia
  • Medical Journal of Malaysia
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant – Will it Change the Medical Scenario in Malaysia? [2009]
• Mexico
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Ethical issues relating to the banking of umbilical cord blood in Mexico [2009]
• Morocco
  • Journal of Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking for Transplantation in Morocco: Problems and opportunities [2014]
• Republic of Korea
  • Korean Journal of Pediatrics
    • Clinical utilization of cord blood over human health: experience of stem cell transplantation and cell therapy using cord blood in Korea [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking [2006]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Cord Blood Banking for Potential Future Transplantation [2017]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking [2019]
  • American Family Physician
    • Umbilical Cord Blood: A Guide for Primary Care Physicians [2011]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Notes from the Field: Infections After Receipt of Bacterially Contaminated Umbilical Cord Blood–Derived Stem Cell Products for Other Than Hematopoietic or Immunologic Reconstitution — United States, 2018 [2018]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Cloning, stem cells