Ethics, jurisprudence

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

Abortion law

• Africa
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Self-Managed Abortion in Africa: The Decriminalization Imperative in Regional Human Rights Standards [2023]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Livingstone Safe Abortion Care Charter [2023]
• Albania
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Albania
• Americas
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Abortion access in the Americas: a hemispheric and historical approach [2023]
• Andorra
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Andorra
• Argentina
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Regulating Conscientious Objection to Legal Abortion in Argentina [2020]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO Statement: Legalisation of Abortion in Argentina [2021]
  • 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • "Factors associated with provider unwillingness to perform induced abortion in Argentina: A cross-sectional study in four provinces following the legalization of abortion on request" [2023]
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Characterizing two models for abortion care in Argentina pre-Law 27.610: 2016-2019 [2023]
• Australia
  • 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]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate [2008]
    • Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing laws [2004]
  • Monash Bioethics Review
    • The provision of abortion in Australia: service delivery as a bioethical concern [2024]
  • NSW Health
    • Framework for Termination of Pregnancy in New South Wales
  • Public Health Research and Practice
    • "We have to make sure you meet certain criteria": exploring patient experiences of the criminalisation of abortion in Australia [2021]
  • SA Health
    • Termination of Pregnancy Policy
• Austria
  • oesterreich.gv.at
    • Termination of pregnancy
• 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]
• Belarus
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Belarus
• Belgium
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Factors influencing obstetricians' acceptance of termination of pregnancy beyond the first trimester: a qualitative study [2025]
• Bolivia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Bolivia
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Law n. 22,537/2024 of the State of Goiás, Brazil, on awareness against abortion: a critical analysis [2024]
    • Pro-abortion rights narratives in Brazil, 1976 to 2016 [2020]
    • Legal abortion in Brazil: systematic review of the scientific production, 2008-2018 [2020]
    • Abortion in Brazil: what do the official data say? [2020]
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Timely initiation of antenatal care in adolescent victims of sexual violence: implications for legal abortion in Brazil [2025]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • FIGO position statement on the recent prohibition of induction of fetal asystole for legal abortions in Brazil [2024]
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
    • In the name of public health: misoprostol and the new criminalization of abortion in Brazil [2021]
• 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]
• Cambodia
  • Global Public Health
    • Abortion politics in Cambodia social history, local forms and transnational issues [2018]
• 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
  • 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
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Abortion in Chile: The Long Road to Legalization and its Slow Implementation [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Women's Education Level, Maternal Health Facilities, Abortion Legislation and Maternal Deaths: A Natural Experiment in Chile from 1957 to 2007 [2012]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • The misrepresentation of conscientious objection as a new strategy of resistance to abortion decriminalisation [2019]
• China
  • Reproductive Health
    • Illegal births and legal abortions - the case of China [2005]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in China
• Colombia
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • The production of expert knowledge as a key tool in the implementation of legal abortion in Colombia [2020]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Eliminating Abortion from Criminal Law in Colombia: A Just Cause [2019]
• Costa Rica
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Socio-ecological influences on access to abortion care in Costa Rica: a qualitative analysis of key perspectives from clinical and policy stakeholders [2024]
    • Reflections from an abortion policy conference in Costa Rica, October 2022 [2023]
• Cyprus
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Cyprus
• Czech Republic
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in the Czech Republic
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Expanding access to safe abortion in DRC: charting the path from decriminalisation to accessible care [2023]
• Denmark
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Denmark
• Dominican Republic
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Neonatal mortality and contraceptive utilization following abortion restriction in the Dominican Republic: A difference-in-differences analysis [2025]
• East Africa, Latin America
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Preventing State Harassment of Abortion Providers [2019]
• Ecuador
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Ecuador
• El Salvador
  • Social Politics
    • Devaluing Women's Lives through Law: Familyism Ideologies in Abortion and Violence against Women Laws in El Salvador [2023]
• 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]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • What is the relationship between contraceptive services and knowledge of abortion availability and legality? Evidence from a national sample of women and facilities in Ethiopia [2023]
  • Health Science Reports
    • Abortion beyond a medical issue; women's perception on the current Ethiopian abortion law among reproductive-aged women by 2023, a community-based cross-sectional study [2024]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • "We need to confirm at least from two or three": Healthcare workers' discretion as gatekeepers in the context of the Ethiopian abortion law [2024]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Health care providers`attitude and associated factors to safe abortion in Ethiopia, 2023: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Liberalizing abortion to reduce maternal mortality: expanding access to all Ethiopians [2022]
    • 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
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Gestational age limits for abortion and cross-border reproductive care in Europe: a mixed-methods study [2021]
  • Human Resources for Health
    • Accommodating conscientious objection in the midwifery workforce: a ratio-data analysis of midwives, birth and late abortions in 18 European countries in 2016 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Divergent Trends in Abortion and Birth Control Practices in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine [2012]
• Finland
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Finland
• Finland, Ireland
  • Reproductive Health
    • Abortion debates in Finland and the Republic of Ireland: textual analysis of experiential thinking and argumentation in parliamentary and layperson discussions [2017]
• France
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in France
• Gambia
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Gambia's Political Transition to Democracy: Is Abortion Reform Possible? [2019]
• Germany
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Germany
• Ghana
  • 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
    • Incidence of Abortion and Provision of Abortion-Related Services in Ghana [2020]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • The impact of Ghana’s R3M programme on the provision of safe abortions and postabortion care [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Knowledge of abortion legality among health facility staff in Ghana [2024]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Knowledge of Ghana's liberal abortion law and use of modern contraceptives among women of reproductive age [2025]
• Ghana, Ivory Coast
  • Reproductive Health
    • Exploring women's knowledge of abortion legality and association with source of abortion care using population-based survey data in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana [2024]
• Greece
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Greece
• Guatemala
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Guatemala
• Guyana
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Guyana
• High-income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Abortion care pathways and service provision for adolescents in high-income countries: A qualitative synthesis of the evidence [2020]
• Hungary
  • PLoS ONE
    • The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes [2021]
  • 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]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Denial of Safe Abortion to Survivors of Rape in India [2019]
  • Indian Journal of Community Medicine
    • Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment Bill, 2021): Is it Enough for Indian Women Regarding Comprehensive Abortion Care?? [2021]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Adolescent abortions in the Covid-19 landscape: Exposing the legal Achilles' heel [2024]
    • The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021: A step towards liberation [2021]
    • Conflicting abortion laws in India: Unintended barriers to safe abortion for adolescent girls [2019]
  • Indian Journal of Public Health
    • Recent Amendment in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in India: Empowering Women's Health [2024]
  • 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]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Supreme Court of India judgement on abortion as a fundamental right: breaking new ground [2023]
    • The case for the use of telehealth for abortion in India [2021]
    • The MTP 2020 Amendment Bill: anti-rights subjectivity [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
    • How to deal with the criterion of severe mental distress for late termination of pregnancy? A scoping literature review and a content analysis of clinical ethics consultations [2025]
    • Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam [2014]
  • BMC Public Health
    • The impact of third-party authorization requirements on abortion-related outcomes: a synthesis of legal and health evidence [2023]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries [2023]
    • Integrating rights and evidence: a technical advance in abortion guideline development [2021]
    • Identifying data for the empirical assessment of law (IDEAL): a realist approach to research gaps on the health effects of abortion law [2021]
    • 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]
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • Voluntary multifetal pregnancy reduction: who should decide and select, and why? [2025]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide [2022]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Interpreting International Humanitarian Law to Guarantee Abortion and Other Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Armed Conflict [2024]
    • Toward Human Rights and Evidence-Based Legal Frameworks for (Self-Managed) Abortion [2021]
  • International Academy of Perinatal Medicine
    • The IAPM New York 2024 declaration on professional responsibility and abortion [2024]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Supporting access to safe abortion in conflict and humanitarian settings [2023]
    • FIGO Calls for the Total Decriminalisation of Safe Abortion [2022]
    • Improving Access to Abortion Beyond 12 Weeks of Pregnancy [2021]
    • Addressing Barriers to Safe Abortion [2021]
    • Ethical Responsibilities in Post-abortion care [2019]
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Mandatory Waiting Periods Before Abortion and Sterilization: Theory and Practice [2020]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990–2019 [2020]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Implementing and expanding safe abortion care: an international comparative case study of six countries [2018]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Providers' experiences with abortion care: A scoping review [2024]
    • The microeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the economic consequences for abortion care-seekers [2021]
    • The macroeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the costs and outcomes [2021]
    • The mesoeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the economic effects of abortion on health systems [2020]
    • 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]
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Healthcare professionals and students' knowledge on termination of pregnancy legislation and clinical practice: A systematic review [2022]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Policy surveillance for a global analysis of national abortion laws [2022]
    • Self-managed abortion: a constellation of actors, a cacophony of laws? [2021]
    • Abortion hotlines around the world: a mixed-methods systematic and descriptive review [2021]
    • Criminalisation under scrutiny: how constitutional courts are changing their narrative by using public health evidence in abortion cases [2019]
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion law
    • Abortion by country
  • Women's Health
    • Institutional objection to abortion: A mixed-methods narrative review [2023]
• Iran
  • BMC Public Health
    • The abortion trend after the pronatalist turn of population policies in Iran: a systematic review from 2005 to 2022 [2024]
  • BMC Research Notes
    • Therapeutic abortion in Iran: an epidemiologic study of legal abortion in 2 years [2020]
  • 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
  • BJGP Open
    • Knowledge and attitudes of Irish GPs towards abortion following its legalisation: a cross-sectional study [2019]
  • Department of Health Ireland
    • Policy Paper on Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy [2018]
    • General Scheme of a Bill to Regulate Termination of Pregnancy [2018]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas: Abortion Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland [2019]
  • Health Care Analysis
    • Choosing to Provide: Early Medical Abortion and Clinician Conscience in Ireland [2024]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Impact of pregnancy termination law reforms in Ireland on pregnancy termination rates in the setting of fetal congenital heart disease: A trend analysis [2025]
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • Review of the Safety and Operation of Section 11 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 [2023]
• Israel
  • Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
    • Politics of reproduction: a view from Israel on the Dobbs decision [2023]
• Italy
  • La Clinica Terapeutica
    • Comparative Analysis of Legislation on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy: Italy's position relate to international panorama [2024]
  • Medicina
    • Is the Right to Abortion at Risk in Times of COVID-19? The Italian State of Affairs within the European Context [2021]
• 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]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Kenya's 2010 abortion law impacts contraceptive use and fertility rates [2025]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • ‘High profile health facilities can add to your trouble’: Women, stigma and un/safe abortion in Kenya [2015]
• Laos
  • Culture, Health & Sexuality
    • Abortion in the Lao People's Democratic Republic [2025]
• Latin America
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Latin American Nations Once Lagged on Abortion Rights: Now Some Present Role Models for the United States [2024]
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Challenges and opportunities for access to legal and safe abortion in Latin America based on the scenarios in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay [2020]
  • 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]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Analysing the context and characteristics of legal abortion and comprehensive post-abortion care among adolescents aged 10-14 in a network of sentinel centres in Latin America: a retrospective cross-sectional study, 2016-2020 [2023]
• Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Women's Health
    • How, when and where? A systematic review on abortion decision making in legally restricted settings in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean [2022]
• Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Professional societies of obstetrics and gynecology as agents of change in sexual and reproductive health: FIGO's 10-country safe abortion advocacy project in Africa and Latin America [2024]
• Liberia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Assessing facility capacity to provide safe abortion and post-abortion care in Liberia: a 2021 signal function survey across 48 public health facilities [2025]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Globalization and Health
    • Systematic review of early abortion services in low- and middle-income country primary care: potential for reverse innovation and application in the UK context [2020]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Disclosure to social network members among abortion-seeking women in low- and middle-income countries with restrictive access: a systematic review [2021]
• Malawi
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Malawi [2017]
• Malta
  • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
    • Accessing abortion in a highly restrictive legal regime: characteristics of women and pregnant people in Malta self-managing their abortion through online telemedicine [2023]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Abortion in the time of COVID-19: perspectives from Malta [2020]
• 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]
  • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
    • Utilisation of second-trimester spontaneous and induced abortion services in public hospitals in Mexico, 2007–2015 [2019]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Facts on Induced Abortion in Mexico [2008]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Inequalities in access to and quality of abortion services in Mexico: Can task-sharing be an opportunity to increase legal and safe abortion care? [2020]
    • Con la ley y sin la ley/With and without the law: Utilization of abortion services and case fatality in Mexico, 2000–2016 [2019]
  • Journal of Health Economics
    • Abortion laws and women’s health [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Women's abortion seeking behavior under restrictive abortion laws in Mexico [2019]
• Middle East, North Africa
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Limits of the Law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa [2019]
• Monaco
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Monaco
• Morocco
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Non-marital Pregnancies and Unmarried Women’s Search for Illegal Abortion in Morocco [2019]
• 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]
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Impacts of Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy in Nepal: a qualitative study [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Denial of legal abortion in Nepal [2023]
    • Factors associated with unsafe abortion practices in Nepal: Pooled analysis of the 2011 and 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys [2019]
    • 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
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in the Netherlands
• Netherlands, United Kingdom
  • Medical Law Review
    • The (mis)use of fetal viability as the determinant of non-criminal abortion in the Netherlands and England and Wales [2023]
• New Zealand
  • Global Public Health
    • Between reproductive rights and sex selection in New Zealand's abortion reforms: practitioner dilemma in institutionalising 'choice' and 'agency' [2023]
  • Health New Zealand
    • Abortion services
  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • Abortion
• Nicaragua
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Should doctors be the judges? Ambiguous policies on legal abortion in Nicaragua [2004]
• Nigeria
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in Nigeria [2015]
    • Reducing Unsafe Abortion in Nigeria [2008]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Unsafe abortion practices and the law in Nigeria: time for change [2020]
• Nordic countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trends over 50 years with liberal abortion laws in the Nordic countries [2024]
• Norway
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Norway
• OECD countries
  • Lancet
    • Safeguarding and teleconsultation for abortion [2021]
• Pakistan
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unsafe Abortion and Postabortion Care In Pakistan [2013]
    • Postabortion Care in Pakistan [2013]
    • Facts on Induced Abortion in Pakistan [2009]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Notes from the field: political norm change for abortion in Pakistan [2019]
• Palestine
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Unique Landscape of Abortion Law and Access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [2019]
• Panama
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Panama
• Papua New Guinea
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of pregnancy termination and associated factors among married women in Papua New Guinea: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey [2024]
    • 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
  • Contraception
    • Exploring the prevalence of abortion and its characteristics in Perú [2023]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Support Systems and Limitations in Therapeutic Abortion Care by the Gynecologist-Obstetrician of Public Hospitals in Peru [2022]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Activist framing of abortion and use for policy change in Peru [2019]
• 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
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Scales of the European Court of Human Rights: Abortion Restriction in Poland, the European Consensus, and the State's Margin of Appreciation [2021]
• Poland, United Kingdom
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Influence of Abortion Law on the Frequency of Pregnancy Terminations—A Retrospective Comparative Study [2021]
• Portugal
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • The woman’s choice for abortion: the experience in Portugal with implementation of the National Network [2020]
• Republic of Korea
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Role of Reproductive Justice Movements in Challenging South Korea’s Abortion Ban [2019]
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Social Consensus is Required for Legal Induced Abortion [2019]
• Romania
  • Romanian Journal of Morphology and Embryology
    • A research on abortion: ethics, legislation and socio-medical outcomes. Case study: Romania [2020]
• Russia
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Russia
• Rwanda
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Rwanda [2013]
    • Abortion in Rwanda [2013]
• Senegal
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion in Senegal [2015]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Rewriting abortion: deploying medical records in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal [2014]
• Sierra Leone
  • BMC Public Health
    • Abortion-related morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone: results from a 2021 cross-sectional study [2025]
• 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 African Family Practice
    • Abortion reforms in South Africa: An overview of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act [2020]
• Spain
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Evolution of Legislation and the Incidence of Elective Abortion in Spain: A Retrospective Observational Study (2011-2020) [2022]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia [2019]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Ethical concerns facing abortion researchers in restrictive settings: the need for guidelines [2023]
    • Research priorities to support evidence-informed policies and advocacy for access to safe abortion care in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
• Sudan
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Politicization of Abortion and Hippocratic Disobedience in Islamist Sudan [2019]
• Suriname
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Suriname
• Sweden
  • BMC Public Health
    • Knowledge of the abortion law and key legal issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights among recently arrived migrants in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey [2023]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • How task-sharing in abortion care became the norm in Sweden: A case study of historic and current determinants and events [2020]
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • The road to equity: A scoping review of the evidence and practices on abortion policies and services in Sweden [2025]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Overlapping borders: limit of viability and late terminations of pregnancy – a retrospective multicentre observational study [2020]
• Tanzania
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unsafe Abortion in Tanzania: A Review of the Evidence [2013]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania [2019]
• Thailand
  • BMC Medical Education
    • Knowledge, attitude, and intended practice of abortion among pharmacy students in Thailand after the amendment of the Thai Abortion Law [2023]
• Trinidad and Tobago
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Knowledge and perception of abortion and the abortion law in Trinidad and Tobago [2007]
• Tunisia
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The Right to Abortion in Tunisia after the Revolution of 2011: Legal, Medical, and Social Arrangements as Seen through Seven Abortion Stories [2019]
  • 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]
  • Culture, Health & Sexuality
    • 'We had that abortion together': abortion networks and access to il/legal abortions in Turkey [2024]
  • Journal of Religion and Health
    • Abortion in Islamic Ethics, and How it is Perceived in Turkey: A Secular, Muslim Country [2017]
• Uganda
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion and Postabortion Care in Uganda [2017]
    • The Individual- and Household-Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda [2014]
    • Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Uganda [2013]
  • Reproductive Health
    • The discourses on induced abortion in Ugandan daily newspapers: a discourse analysis [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
    • Attitudes towards the regulation and provision of abortion among healthcare professionals in Britain: cross-sectional survey data from the SACHA Study [2025]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Guidance for doctors on compliance with the Abortion Act
    • Guidance documents for abortions in England and Wales
    • Abortion: procedures for approval of independent providers
    • Abortion
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Rights-based Claims Made by UK Anti-abortion Activists [2019]
  • Health Care Analysis
    • Should we Relax Abortion Reporting Requirements in Great Britain? [2025]
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
    • Abortion & ‘artificial wombs’: would ‘artificial womb’ technology legally empower non-gestating genetic progenitors to participate in decisions about how to terminate pregnancy in England and Wales? [2021]
  • 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
    • Thorny entanglements: feminism, eugenics and the Abortion Law Reform Association's (ALRA) campaign for safe, accessible abortion in Britain, 1936-1967 [2024]
    • “A Fifth Freedom” or “Hideous Atheistic Expediency”? The Medical Community and Abortion Law Reform in Scotland, c.1960–1975 [2006]
  • Medical Law Review
    • 'Border Country': health law in a devolved UK [2024]
    • The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform [2022]
    • Risks, reasons and rights: the European convention on human rights and English abortion law [2015]
  • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
    • Beyond the Tram Lines: Disability Discrimination, Reproductive Rights and Anachronistic Abortion Law [2023]
    • The Decriminalisation of Abortion: An Argument for Modernisation [2016]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion [2011]
    • Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales [2010]
  • Scottish Government
    • Abortion services: Safe Access Zones [2024]
• United Kingdom, United States
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
    • Is ‘viability’ viable? Abortion, conceptual confusion and the law in England and Wales and the United States [2020]
    • COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic [2020]
• United States
  • AMA Journal of Ethics
    • Can Medical-Legal Partnerships Do More to Advance Reproductive Justice After Dobbs? [2024]
    • Fetal Pain Legislation [2014]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • The Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Care When Considering Abortion [2022]
  • American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics
    • Access to reproductive options after prenatal diagnosis-patient access and physician responsibilities: an updated position statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) [2020]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Increasing Access to Abortion [2025]
    • ACOG Committee Statement No. 13: Self-Managed Abortion [2024]
    • Decriminalization of Self-Induced Abortion [2017]
  • American College of Physicians
    • Reproductive Health Policy in the United States: An American College of Physicians Policy Brief [2023]
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
    • Forced Birth and No Time off Work: Abortion Access and Paid Family Leave Policies [2023]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Understanding the Post- Dobbs Landscape for Abortion Care in the United States [2024]
    • Post- Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and the Families They Leave Behind [2024]
    • Incarceration Status Among Individuals Obtaining Abortion in the United States, 2020 [2023]
    • The Importance of Physician Concern and Expertise in Increasing Abortion Health Care Access in Local Contexts [2021]
  • American Psychological Association
    • Abortion Resolutions
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
    • ASCO Ethical Guidance for the US Oncology Community Where Reproductive Health Care Is Limited by Law [2023]
  • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Impact of State Abortion Policies on Family Medicine Practice and Training After Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization [2024]
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Why Hospitals Must Provide Abortions in Pregnancy Emergencies [2024]
  • Annual Review of Public Health
    • From Roe to Dobbs: 50 Years of Cause and Effect of US State Abortion Regulations [2025]
  • Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
    • Contraception and Abortion [2024]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Racial/ethnic and educational inequities in restrictive abortion policy variation and adverse birth outcomes in the United States [2021]
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Moral distress among maternal-fetal medicine fellows: a national survey study [2025]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Approaches, barriers, and facilitators to abortion-related work in U.S. health departments: perspectives of maternal and child heath and family planning professionals [2020]
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
    • Abortion
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
    • Severely Restricting Abortion Threatens Equitable Health Outcomes for People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus [2023]
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    • Implications of Antiabortion Laws on Patients with Kidney Disease in Pregnancy [2023]
  • Contraception
    • Role of institutional and state policies in management of pregnancies of unknown location: A 2024 online survey of Ryan Programs in the United States [2025]
    • Measuring abortion in claims data: What is the state of the science? [2025]
    • Money and place: Quantifying the types of obstacles associated with seeking an abortion after 10 weeks' gestation, 2019-2020 [2024]
    • Characteristics of foreign-born abortion patients in the United States, 2021-2022 [2024]
    • An estimate of lifetime incidence of abortion in the United States using the 2021-2022 Abortion Patient Survey [2024]
    • State restrictions on abortion are associated with fewer abortions in patients with high-risk cardiovascular conditions [2023]
    • "Have you ever wanted or needed an abortion you did not get?" Data from a 2022 nationally representative online survey in the United States [2023]
    • State and federal abortion restrictions increase risk of COVID-19 exposure by mandating unnecessary clinic visits [2020]
  • Current Oncology
    • Cancer and Pregnancy in the Post-Roe v. Wade Era: A Comprehensive Review [2023]
  • Demography
    • The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on the Abortion Rate of Minors [2020]
    • The Effect of Anti-Abortion Legislation on Nineteenth Century Fertility [2014]
  • Feminist Theory
    • Drafting injustice: overturning Roe v. Wade, spillover effects and reproductive rights in context [2024]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • The impact of hostile abortion legislation on the United States maternal mortality crisis: a call for increased abortion education [2023]
    • Renewed calls for abortion-related research in the post-Roe era [2023]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • An Overview of Abortion Laws [2023]
    • State Facts About Abortion [2019]
    • United States Pregnancy
    • United States Abortion
  • Gynecologic Oncology
    • Impact of limiting reproductive rights of pregnant individuals with cancer in the United States [2024]
  • Hastings Center Report
    • Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care [2023]
  • Health Affairs
    • Abortion Restrictions Threaten Miscarriage Management In The United States [2024]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Their Body, Our Choice: Organized Medicine's Responsibility to De-medicalize Abortion [2024]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Characteristics and Circumstances of Adolescents Obtaining Abortions in the United States [2024]
  • JACC: Heart Failure
    • Pregnancy in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Impact of Overturn of Roe v Wade Ruling [2023]
  • JAMA
    • Travel Time and Costs for Abortion for Military Service Members After the Dobbs Decision [2024]
    • Provision of Medications for Self-Managed Abortion Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision [2024]
    • Requests for Self-managed Medication Abortion Provided Using Online Telemedicine in 30 US States Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision [2022]
    • Estimated Travel Time and Spatial Access to Abortion Facilities in the US Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Decision [2022]
    • Protections From Civil Liability in State Abortion Conscience Laws [2019]
  • JAMA Health Forum
    • Trends in Abortion- and Contraception-Related Internet Searches After the US Supreme Court Overturned Constitutional Abortion Rights: How Much Do State Laws Matter? [2023]
    • One Year After Dobbs-Vast Changes to the Abortion Legal Landscape [2023]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians' Practice Locations Before and After the Dobbs Decision [2025]
    • Use of Oral and Emergency Contraceptives After the US Supreme Court's Dobbs Decision [2024]
    • Trends in Maternal Death Post-Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health [2024]
    • State Abortion Policy and Moral Distress Among Clinicians Providing Abortion After the Dobbs Decision [2024]
    • Self-Managed Abortion Attempts Before vs After Changes in Federal Abortion Protections in the US [2024]
    • Online Medication Abortion Direct-to-Patient Fulfillment Before and After the Dobbs v Jackson Decision [2024]
    • Mental Distress Among Female Individuals of Reproductive Age and Reported Barriers to Legal Abortion Following the US Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v Wade [2023]
    • Association of Highly Restrictive State Abortion Policies With Abortion Rates, 2000-2014 [2020]
  • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
    • Spatial Analyses of Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Abortion Facilities in the United States, 2021 (Pre-Dobbs): Cross-Sectional Study [2024]
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
    • The legal and medical necessity of abortion care amid the COVID-19 pandemic [2020]
    • How the COVID-19 response is altering the legal and regulatory landscape on abortion [2020]
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Virtual Clinic Telehealth Abortion Services in the United States One Year After Dobbs: Landscape Review [2024]
  • Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
    • The Potential Impact of Decreasing Access to Abortion on Pregnant Teenagers with Cancer in the United States [2024]
  • Journal of Perinatal Medicine
    • The importance of professional responsibility and fetal viability in the management of abortion [2024]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • The patient/physician relationship in a post-Roe world: a neonatologist viewpoint [2023]
  • Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment
    • Women with substance use disorders are highly impacted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade: Advocacy steps are urgently needed [2023]
  • Milbank Quarterly
    • Abortion Policy in the United States: The New Legal Landscape and Its Threats to Health and Socioeconomic Well-Being [2023]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Changes in Availability of Later Abortion Care Before and After Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization [2025]
    • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Access to Abortion: Assessing Patient Sociodemographic and Travel Characteristics [2021]
    • Abortion Waiting Periods and Decision Certainty Among People Searching Online for Abortion Care [2021]
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • The Role of Medication Abortion Provision in US States Without Total Abortion Bans, 2023 [2025]
    • Accuracy and Misleadingness of Anatomical and Embryological Statements in State-Level Abortion Ban Legislation in the United States [2025]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Public health and clinical implications of Dobbs v. Jackson for patients and healthcare providers: A scoping review [2024]
  • Psychology of Women Quarterly
    • Protect and Control: Coverture's Logics Across Welfare Policy and Abortion Law [2023]
  • Public Health
    • The impact of abortion bans on short-term housing needs [2024]
  • Science
    • Ethical research when abortion access is legally restricted [2023]
  • Science Advances
    • The impact of abortion restrictions on American mental health [2024]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • " A daily reminder of an ugly incident … ": analysis of debate on rape and incest exceptions in early abortion ban legislation in six states in the southern US [2023]
    • Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review [2022]
    • Access to later abortion in the United States during COVID-19: challenges and recommendations from providers, advocates, and researchers [2020]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Support for criminalization of self-managed abortion (SMA): A national representative survey [2024]
    • "Technically an abortion": Understanding perceptions and definitions of abortion in the United States [2023]
    • State abortion policies and Medicaid coverage of abortion are associated with pregnancy outcomes among individuals seeking abortion recruited using Google Ads: A national cohort study [2021]
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
    • Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the U.S.: Lack of Adherence to Medical and Ethical Practice Standards: A Joint Position Statement of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology [2019]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Position Statement: Access to abortion care [2024]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: A critical examination of abortion terminology as it relates to access and quality of care [2023]
  • Society for Medical Anthropology
    • Society for Medical Anthropology Statement on Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision [2022]
  • SSM - Population Health
    • The association between reproductive rights and access to abortion services and mental health among US women [2023]
  • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
    • Defining 'Abortion': a call for clarity [2025]
  • Women's Health
    • Judicial bypass for minors post- Dobbs [2023]
• 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]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Legal barriers to access abortion services through a human rights lens: the Uruguayan experience [2018]
• Venezuela
  • Wikipedia
    • Abortion in Venezuela
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief [2022]
    • 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
• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • 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 South-East Asia Region
    • Policies, programme and services for comprehensive abortion care in South-East Asia Region [2020]
    • Mapping abortion policies, programmes and services in the South-East Asia Region [2013]
• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Abortion in the Western Pacific Region - 2017 [2017]
• Zambia
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Unsafe Abortion in Zambia [2009]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy [2020]
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  • Topic
    • Induced abortion

Cloning, stem cells

• Africa
  • WHO African Region
    • Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings: Current Situation [2005]
• Australia
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
    • Stem Cell Therapies Mission: Implementation plan [2021]
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Commonwealth and state legislation
• Canada
  • CMAJ
    • Cloning and consensus: Bill C-6 [2004]
• China
  • Cell Proliferation
    • Technical specifications for ethics review of human stem cell research [2024]
    • General requirements for the production of extracellular vesicles derived from human stem cells [2024]
    • General requirements for stem cells [2020]
  • Cell Stem Cell
    • The variability of judicial decisions in the stem cell industry in China [2023]
  • Stem Cells Translational Medicine
    • Developing standards to support the clinical translation of stem cells [2021]
• China, United States
  • Stem Cell Reports
    • Rethink the patentability of human embryonic stem cell research findings: Relaxation based on benefit weighing [2021]
• Europe
  • European Commission
    • Report on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research [2003]
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Stem cells in reproductive medicine: ready for the patient? [2015]
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine
    • Stem Cells and Infertility: A Review of Clinical Applications and Legal Frameworks [2024]
  • Stem Cell Reports
    • Dynamic governance: A new era for consent for stem cell research [2024]
• Germany
  • Journal of Perinatal Medicine
    • Work with embryonic stem cells - legal considerations [2023]
• India
  • Indian Council of Medical Research
    • National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research [2017]
  • Indian Review of Advanced Legal Research
    • Human cloning in India: what are the legal implications? [2021]
  • Jus Corpus
    • Legal and ethical issues related to human cloning [2023]
  • Perspectives in Clinical Research
    • The National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research (2017): What academicians need to know? [2019]
• International
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • A WHO remit to improve global standards for medical products of human origin [2024]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Human cloning as reproductive means in future: a qualitative thematic study of underpinning values [2024]
  • International Society for Stem Cell Research
    • The role of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) guidelines in disease modeling [2024]
    • ISSCR standards for the use of human stem cells in basic research [2023]
    • ISSCR Education Committee syllabus and learning guide for enhancing stem cell literacy [2023]
    • ISSCR guidelines for the transfer of human pluripotent stem cells and their direct derivatives into animal hosts [2021]
    • 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]
  • npj Regenerative Medicine
    • Global trends in clinical trials involving pluripotent stem cells: a systematic multi-database analysis [2020]
  • Palgrave Communications
    • The global governance of human cloning: the case of UNESCO [2017]
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    • Cloning humans? Biological, ethical, and social considerations [2015]
  • Stem Cell Reports
    • Toward Guidelines for Research on Human Embryo Models Formed from Stem Cells [2020]
  • Stem Cell Reviews and Reports
    • Review of the Current Trends in Clinical Trials Involving Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells [2021]
  • Stem Cells International
    • Stem Cells: A Historical Review about Biological, Religious, and Ethical Issues [2021]
  • United Nations
    • United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning: resolution / adopted by the General Assembly [2005]
• Iran
  • Stem Cell Research & Therapy
    • Ethics of research on stem cells and regenerative medicine: ethical guidelines in the Islamic Republic of Iran [2020]
• Japan
  • JMA Journal
    • Research and Development Strategy for Future Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Japan [2020]
  • Regenerative Therapy
    • Comparison of the 2021 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) guidelines for "laboratory-based human stem cell research, embryo research, and related research activities" and the corresponding Japanese regulations [2022]
• Malaysia
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia
    • National standards for stem cell transplantation: collection, processing, storage and infusion of haemopoietic stem cells and therapeutic cells [2018]
    • Malaysian guidelines for stem cell research and therapy [2009]
• Netherlands
  • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
    • The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures : A Focus Group Study on the Perspectives of Dutch Professionals and Lay Citizens [2024]
• New Zealand
  • National Ethics Advisory Committee
    • Research with stem cells and reprogrammed cells
• Pakistan
  • International Journal of Stem Cells
    • Stem Cell Research in Pakistan; Past, Present and Future [2015]
• South Africa
  • National Department of Health South Africa
    • National Health Act: Regulations: Stem cell banks [2012]
• Sudan
  • Medicine
    • Knowledge, attitude, and ethical concepts of Sudanese medical students regarding stem cells and its application [2023]
• United Kingdom
  • Legislation.gov.uk
    • Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001 [2001]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • UK Stem Cell Bank
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Stem Cell Therapies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2013]
  • UK Parliament
    • Stem Cell Research - Report [2002]
• United States
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) and Human Embryo Research [2012]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Human somatic cell nuclear transfer and reproductive cloning: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
  • Congress.gov
    • Human cloning prohibition act of 2003 [2003]
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Therapeutic Cloning and Genome Modification
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    • Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning [2002]
    • Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
  • National Institutes of Health
    • NIH Stem Cell Information
  • Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science
    • The threat of human cloning: ethics, recent developments and the case for action. Part four: cloning policy in United States [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Reproductive cloning of human beings: status of the debate in the United Nations General Assembly [2004]
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • Development of a regional position on human cloning [2004]
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  • Topic
    • Umbilical cord blood banking
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: sexual and reproductive health and rights
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: assisted reproductive technology

Ethics, jurisprudence: assisted reproductive technology

• Australia
  • Health Care Analysis
    • Do Doctors Have a Responsibility to Challenge the Distorting Influence of Commerce on Healthcare Delivery? The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology [2025]
  • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
    • The Parliamentary Inquiry into Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis [2024]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Mitochondrial donation: is Australia ready? [2022]
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Ethical guidelines for Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Embryo research licensing
  • Queensland Health
    • Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 2024 [2024]
  • SA Health
    • Assisted reproductive treatment legislation
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • 'Like going to get a facial': Heterotopic spaces and gendered aesthetics of commercial Australian reproductive clinics [2024]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Cross-border reproductive care [2021]
• Australia, United Kingdom
  • Medical Law Review
    • Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine [2024]
• Austria, Israel
  • Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
    • Patterns of globalized reproduction: Egg cells regulation in Israel and Austria [2012]
• Brazil
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Reproduction in cisgender same-sex couples: a scoping review [2024]
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • Comparative analysis of ethical standards for the utilization of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Brazil: Resolutions from 1992 to 2023 [2025]
    • Quality of information provided by Brazilian Fertility Clinic websites: Compliance with Brazilian Medical Council (CFM) and American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Guidelines [2023]
    • Critical Analysis of The Changes in CFM Resolution 2294/21 And Its Impacts on Assisted Human Reproduction [2022]
• Canada
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • The high-priority ethical issues of advanced paternal age: perspectives from a panel of experts in the fields of men reproduction and family building [2025]
  • Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society
    • Guidelines for Third Party Reproduction [2016]
  • CMAJ
    • “CRISPR babies”: What does this mean for science and Canada? [2019]
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Pragmatic Reforms in Support of Research [2019]
  • Health Canada
    • Assisted human reproduction
  • Justice Laws Website
    • Assisted Human Reproduction Act [2004]
• China
  • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
    • Obstacles to Exercising Reproductive Rights for Single Women in China and Legal Recommendations [2023]
• 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
    • Responsible innovation in human germline gene editing: Background document to the recommendations of ESHG and ESHRE [2018]
    • Human germline gene editing: Recommendations of ESHG and ESHRE [2018]
    • 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
    • Survey on ART and IUI: legislation, regulation, funding, and registries in European countries-an update [2024]
    • Good practice recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donation [2022]
    • Statements by the Task Force Ethics and Law
  • La Clinica Terapeutica
    • Advances in Medically-assisted procreation technologies: can malpractice claims and “reproductive damage” be identified? [2020]
• France
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • The reproductive journeys of French women over 40 seeking assisted reproductive technology treatments in Spain [2024]
• Ghana
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Ethical constraints and dilemmas in the provision of in-vitro fertilization treatment in Ghana: from the perspectives of experts [2024]
  • Ghana Medical Journal
    • Legal and ethical challenges in assisted reproductive technology practice in Ghana [2024]
• India
  • India Code
    • The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 [2021]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Assisted reproductive technologies: Conundrums and challenges [2018]
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • Ethical Considerations in Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval: A Comprehensive Review [2024]
  • Reproduction and Fertility
    • The landscape of assisted reproductive technology access in India [2024]
• Indian subcontinent
  • Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences
    • Postmortem sperm retrieval in context of developing countries of Indian subcontinent [2016]
• International
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Parents' disclosure to their donor-conceived children in the last 10 years and factors affecting disclosure: a narrative review [2024]
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
    • Inherited regulation for advanced ARTs: comparing jurisdictions' applications of existing governance regimes to emerging reproductive technologies [2022]
• Iran
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • The process of justifying assisted reproductive technologies in Iran [2015]
  • 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]
  • Irish Statute Book
    • Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 [2024]
• Israel
  • Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
    • Posthumous Sperm Use in Times of War: Ethics, Law and Society [2024]
  • Ministry of Health Israel
    • Reproductive Health & Surrogacy
• Israel, Spain
  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
    • Regulatory responses to assisted reproductive technology: a comparative analysis of Spain and Israel [2019]
• Italy
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Italian law on medically assisted reproduction: do women’s autonomy and health matter? [2016]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • 20 Years Since the Enactment of Italian Law No. 40/2004 on Medically Assisted Procreation: How It Has Changed and How It Could Change [2025]
    • An Update on Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation (POC) in Italy: Medical, Epidemiological and Legal Consideration [2022]
  • 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
    • Access to medically-assisted procreation: the withdrawal of paternal consent in the maze of law n. 40/2004 [2024]
    • Recent Judgement of the Italian Judiciary about medical assisted procreation (MAP): is informed consent valid after parents separation? [2021]
    • No more only one mom? European Court of Human Rights and Italian jurisprudences’ ongoing evolution [2020]
• Kazakhstan
  • Acta Medica Academica
    • Establishment of a Unified Register of Donor Sexual Gametes in the Republic of Kazakhstan [2024]
• Kenya
  • Kenya Law
    • The Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2022 [2022]
• Maldives
  • Ministry of Health Maldives
    • National Standard for Assisted Reproductive Technology in the Maldives [2023]
• Mexico
  • Reproductive Health
    • The need for regulation in the practice of human assisted reproduction in Mexico. An overview of the regulations in the rest of the world [2021]
• Muslim countries
  • Middle East Fertility Society Journal
    • Review of assisted reproduction techniques, laws, and regulations in Muslim countries [2020]
• Netherlands
  • Human Fertility
    • Enable families with donor-conceived children to tailor their family story. Recommendations for policy and practice regarding legal age limits for accessing donor information in The Netherlands [2025]
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
    • What constitutes a reasonable compensation for non-commercial oocyte donors: an analogy with living organ donation and medical research participation [2019]
• New Zealand
  • Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Publications and resources
  • Human Fertility
    • Donor-linking provisions in New Zealand: counselling roles, concerns and needs [2024]
• Nigeria
  • African Journal of Reproductive Health
    • Regulating assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Nigeria: lessons from Australia and the United Kingdom [2020]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Parenthood: Is the law in Nigeria fit for assisted reproductive technology? [2018]
• Norway
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
    • Why are egg donors paid less than sperm donors? [2024]
• Philippines
  • Frontiers in Sociology
    • The need for assisted reproductive technology regulations: a case for women in the Philippines [2025]
• Singapore
  • Singapore Medical Journal
    • Application of legal principles and medical ethics: multifetal pregnancy and fetal reduction [2014]
• South Africa
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Building a Progressive Reproductive Law in South Africa [2023]
  • National Department of Health South Africa
    • National Health Act: Regulations: Artificial fertilisation of persons [2012]
• Sweden
  • Anthropology & Medicine
    • Politics, law and a lack of sperm: single women and fertility treatment in the Swedish health system [2024]
  • Human Reproduction
    • National survey of donor-conceived individuals who requested information about their sperm donor-experiences from 17 years of identity releases in Sweden [2022]
  • Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
    • The Ethics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach and the case of live uterus transplantation-IVF [2019]
  • Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
    • Use of in vitro fertilization—ethical issues [2020]
• Switzerland
  • Fedlex
    • Federal Act on Medically Assisted Reproduction
  • Reproductive BioMedicine Online
    • Legal framework and IVF outcomes: a comparative analysis of fresh and frozen embryo transfers in Switzerland [2025]
• Taiwan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Use of assisted reproductive technologies before and after the Artificial Reproduction Act in Taiwan [2018]
• 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
    • Human fertilisation and embryology
  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
    • Code of Practice
  • Human Fertility
    • Women, Wombs and Warnock: 40 years after the Warnock Report, is legislation fit for purpose for uterus transplantation? [2025]
  • Journal of Law and the Biosciences
    • 'The law is very, very outdated and not keeping up with the technology': novel forms of assisted gestation, legal challenges, and perspectives of reproductive rights advocates in England and Wales [2023]
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Is it acceptable to contact an anonymous egg donor to facilitate diagnostic genetic testing for the donor-conceived child? [2019]
  • Legislation.gov.uk
    • The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015 [2015]
  • Medical Law Review
    • Donor conception, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, choices, and procedural justice: an argument for reform of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 [2024]
    • Artificial Womb Technology and the Choice to Gestate Ex Utero: Is Partial Ectogenesis the Business of the Criminal Law? [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The use of expanded carrier screening in reproductive medicine [2024]
• United Kingdom, United States
  • EMBO Molecular Medicine
    • Ethical and legal issues in mitochondrial transfer [2016]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction [2017]
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • State insurance mandates for in vitro fertilization are not associated with improving racial and ethnic disparities in utilization and treatment outcomes [2023]
    • Embryo donation: national trends and outcomes, 2004-2019 [2023]
    • 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
    • Gamete and embryo donation guidance [2024]
    • Financial ''risk-sharing'' or refund programs in assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion [2024]
    • Ethical considerations for telemedical delivery of fertility care: an Ethics Committee opinion [2024]
    • Misconduct in third-party assisted reproductive technology by participants and nonmedical professionals or entities: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
    • Informed consent in assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
    • Defining embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
    • Updated terminology for gamete and embryo donors: directed (identified) to replace "known" and nonidentified to replace "anonymous": a committee opinion [2022]
    • Reproductive and infertility care in times of public health crises: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
    • Provision of fertility services for women at increased risk of complications during fertility treatment or pregnancy: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
    • Cross-border reproductive care: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
    • Moving innovation to practice: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
    • Guidance regarding gamete and embryo donation [2021]
    • Guidance on the use of social media in reproductive medicine practice [2021]
    • Guidance for using text, email, and video communication in practices devoted to reproductive medicine [2021]
    • Financial compensation of oocyte donors: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
    • Evidence-based outcomes after oocyte cryopreservation for donor oocyte in vitro fertilization and planned oocyte cryopreservation: a guideline [2021]
    • Ethical issues in oocyte banking for nonautologous use: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
    • Disposition of unclaimed embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
    • Disparities in access to effective treatment for infertility in the United States: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
    • Access to fertility treatment irrespective of marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]
    • Repetitive oocyte donation: a committee opinion [2020]
    • Ethics in embryo research: a position statement by the ASRM Ethics in Embryo Research Task Force and the ASRM Ethics Committee [2020]
    • Compassionate transfer: patient requests for embryo transfer for nonreproductive purposes [2020]
    • Interests, obligations, and rights in gamete and embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [2019]
    • Fertility treatment when the prognosis is very poor or futile: an Ethics Committee opinion [2019]
    • Posthumous retrieval and use of gametes or embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion [2018]
    • Informing offspring of their conception by gamete or embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion [2018]
    • Ethical obligations in fertility treatment when intimate partners withhold information from each other: an Ethics Committee opinion [2018]
    • American Society for Reproductive Medicine position statement on uterus transplantation: a committee opinion [2018]
    • Child-rearing ability and the provision of fertility services: an Ethics Committee opinion [2017]
    • Position on reproductive donors and smallpox vaccine: a committee opinion [2016]
    • Oocyte or embryo donation to women of advanced reproductive age: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Disclosure of medical errors involving gametes and embryos: an Ethics Committee opinion [2016]
    • Third-Party Reproduction
    • Oversight of IVF in the US
    • Oversight of Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Embryo Donation
    • Egg Donation
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Informed consent and coercion in recruitment advertisements for oocyte donors [2024]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • National ART Surveillance System
  • EMBO reports
    • In vitro fertilization and the ethics of frozen embryos [2024]
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • Effect of state insurance mandates on racial/ethnic disparities in the utilization and outcomes of donor oocyte-assisted reproductive technologies [2023]
    • Racial and ethnic disparities among donor oocyte banks in the United States [2022]
    • Storage, transport, and disposition of gametes and embryos: legal issues and practical considerations [2021]
    • Business law issues for assisted reproductive technology practices and practitioners: considerations for sales or mergers of fertility practices [2021]
  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
    • Revisiting selected ethical aspects of current clinical in vitro fertilization (IVF) practice [2022]
    • Liability for embryo mix-ups in fertility practices in the USA [2021]
    • Cryostorage failures: a medicolegal review [2019]
    • “One for Sorrow, Two for Joy?”: American embryo transfer guideline recommendations, practices, and outcomes for gestational surrogate patients [2017]
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    • In Vitro–Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology: Scientific, Ethical, and Regulatory Implications: Proceedings of a Workshop [2023]
  • Reproductive Sciences
    • Inequities in Medically Assisted Reproduction: a Scoping Review [2023]
  • Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology
    • Closing the gap on racial disparities-Increasing race and ethnicity demographics reporting in the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcome Reporting System Registry [2024]
    • Survey assessing policies regarding patient age and provision of fertility treatment in the United States [2023]
    • The impact of insurance mandates on donor oocyte utilization: an analysis of 39,338 donor oocyte cycles from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology registry [2022]
    • Factors affecting live birth rates in donor oocytes from commercial egg banks vs. program egg donors: an analysis of 40,485 cycles from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology registry in 2016-2018 [2022]
    • Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology advertising guidelines: How likely are member clinics to maintain compliance after resolving their violations? [2021]
    • Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology advertising guidelines: How are member clinics doing? [2021]
• Western countries
  • Reproductive Health
    • A systematic review of assisted and third-party reproduction guidelines regarding management and care of donors [2024]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Current practices and controversies in assisted reproduction [2002]
    • Policies and legislation on Assisted Reproductive Technology
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Preimplantation diagnosis
    • Fertility preservation
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: sexual and reproductive health and rights
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: gestational carriers, surrogacy
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn
    • Cloning, stem cells
    • Assisted reproductive technology

Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn

• Australia
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
    • Should couples be allowed to select the sex of their offspring? [2013]
  • NSW Health
    • Prevention of Termination of Pregnancy for the Sole Purpose of Sex Selection.
  • Queensland Health
    • Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby
  • Reproductive Health
    • High and growing disapproval of sex-selection technology in Australia [2018]
    • Factors influencing the care provided for periviable babies in Australia: a narrative review [2015]
  • SA Health
    • Perinatal Loss
    • Perinatal Care at the Threshold of Viability
  • Sands
    • Sands Australian Principles of Bereavement Care [2018]
  • WA Health
    • Perinatal Palliative Care Model of Care
    • Extreme Prematurity: Periviable Gestations (22 and 23 weeks)
  • Women and Birth
    • Caring for families experiencing stillbirth: Evidence-based guidance for maternity care providers [2015]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
    • Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Clinical Practice Guideline [2024]
• Austria
  • Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
    • Neonatology in Austria: ethics to improve practice [2020]
• Canada
  • BMC Research Notes
    • A transdisciplinary approach to the decision-making process in extreme prematurity [2014]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss [2018]
    • Counselling and management for anticipated extremely preterm birth [2017]
  • CMAJ
    • Sex ratios at birth after induced abortion [2016]
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Grief and Loss
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Loss and grief
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Fetal Sex Determination and Disclosure [2024]
• China
  • Population Health Metrics
    • Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China [2025]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Policy Recommendations for China's Response to Gender-Biased Sex Selection and Son Preference based on UNFPA conceptual framework on son preference and daughter aversion [2024]
• Croatia
  • Medicina
    • End-of-Life Decision-Making in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Croatia-A Focus Group Study among Nurses and Physicians [2022]
• 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
    • Ethical decision-making & palliative care
• Germany
  • Children
    • Psychosocial Support within the Context of Perinatal Palliative Care: The "SORROWFUL" Model [2022]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Public Attitudes Toward Ethics and Practices in End-of-Life Decision-Making for Neonates [2024]
• Greece
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Physicians’ attitudes in relation to end-of-life decisions in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: a national multicenter survey [2020]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Neonatal End-of-Life Decision Making: The Possible Behavior of Greek Physicians, Midwives, and Nurses in Clinical Scenarios [2021]
• High-income countries
  • Children
    • Components of Perinatal Palliative Care: An Integrative Review [2023]
• India
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Is sex ratio at birth an appropriate measure of prenatal sex selection? Findings of a theoretical model and its application to India [2018]
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • End-of-Life Care: Consensus Statement by Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2017]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Trends in missing females at birth in India from 1981 to 2016: analyses of 2·1 million birth histories in nationally representative surveys [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Changes in sex composition of births across regions and subgroups in India from an analysis of birth histories from National Family Health Surveys [2024]
  • Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Assessment of delayed termination of pregnancy in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey, 2019-21 [2025]
• International
  • EMBO reports
    • The ethical and legal challenges of human foetal brain tissue-derived organoids : At the intersection of science, ethics, and regulation [2024]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • The ethics and practice of perinatal care at the limit of viability: FIGO recommendations [2024]
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies
    • The impact of midwife/nurse-led psychosocial interventions on parents experiencing perinatal bereavement: An integrative review [2024]
  • JBI Evidence Synthesis
    • Bereavement care guidelines used in health care facilities immediately following perinatal loss: a scoping review [2024]
  • Newborn Brain Society
    • Ethical considerations in the care of encephalopathic neonates treated with therapeutic hypothermia [2021]
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
    • Sex selection and non-invasive prenatal testing: A review of current practices, evidence, and ethical issues [2020]
• Ireland
  • Ireland's Health Services
    • National Standards for Bereavement Care following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death [2022]
    • Perinatal Management of Extreme Preterm Birth at the Threshold of Viability [2021]
    • Pathway for management of fatal fetal abormalities and / or life limiting conditions diagnosed during pregnancy [2019]
  • Midwifery
    • Governance of maternity services: Effects on the management of perinatal deaths and bereavement services [2021]
    • Impact of bereavement care and pregnancy loss services on families: Findings and recommendations from Irish inquiry reports [2020]
• Israel
  • BMJ Paediatrics Open
    • At the threshold of viability: to resuscitate or not to resuscitate - the perspectives of Israeli neonatologists [2024]
• 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]
• Japan
  • Congenital Anomalies
    • Current status and legal/ethical problems in the research use of the tissues of aborted human fetuses in Japan [2020]
• Jordan
  • Andrologia
    • Perceptions towards sex selection among Jordanian population: A survey study [2022]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Annals of Palliative Medicine
    • Perinatal palliative care in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review [2024]
• Nepal
  • BMC Public Health
    • Estimation and probabilistic projection of levels and trends in the sex ratio at birth in seven provinces of Nepal from 1980 to 2050: a Bayesian modeling approach [2022]
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence and correlates of sex-selective abortions and missing girls in Nepal: evidence from the 2011 Population Census and 2016 Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
  • 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]
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • The Edge of Perinatal Viability: Understanding the Dutch Position [2021]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Parental Acceptance of Fetal Tissue Donation [2024]
  • Seminars in Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
    • Neonatal euthanasia in the context of palliative and EoL care [2023]
• New Zealand
  • Health New Zealand
    • Perinatal Bereavement Support Environmental Scan Report [2023]
• Republic of Korea
  • American Journal of Human Biology
    • The Estimation of the Number of Aborted Girls in South Korea [2025]
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Beyond Legal Boundaries: Public and Clinician Perspectives on Treatment Withdrawal in Infants With Poor Neurological Prognosis [2024]
  • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
    • Effects of Socio-demographic Factors on the Decreasing Trend in the Sex Ratio at Birth in Korea, 1997-2017 [2020]
• Singapore
  • Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore
    • Maternal and fetal best interests in day-to-day obstetrics [2011]
• Spain
  • Sociedad Española de Neonatología
    • Perinatal palliative care [2022]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Perinatal palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations for practice, future research, and guideline development [2023]
• United Kingdom
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    • Implementing two-stage consent pathway in neonatal trials [2023]
    • Babies born at the threshold of viability: changes in survival and workload over 20 years [2012]
  • BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
    • End of life care in paediatric settings: UK national survey [2025]
  • British Association of Perinatal Medicine
    • Recognising uncertainty: an integrated framework for palliative care in perinatal medicine [2024]
  • Legislation.gov.uk
    • Sex selection [2008]
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
    • Sex ratios at birth: statistics
• United States
  • AMA Journal of Ethics
    • Sex selection for family balancing [2014]
    • Sex selection for nonhealth-related reasons [2012]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Guidance for Pediatric End-of-Life Care [2022]
    • Antenatal Counseling Regarding Resuscitation and Intensive Care Before 25 Weeks of Gestation [2015]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Perinatal Palliative Care [2019]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Use of reproductive technology for sex selection for nonmedical reasons: an Ethics Committee opinion [2022]
  • Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
    • Perinatal Palliative Care [2024]
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Neonatal End-of-Life Symptom Management [2020]
  • Health Affairs Scholar
    • Dobbs-driven expansion of perinatal palliative care: a scoping review of the evidence and its limits [2025]
  • Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
    • The Role of Midwives in US Perinatal Palliative Care: A Scoping Review [2024]
  • Journal of Perinatology
    • Transforming neonatal care with artificial intelligence: challenges, ethical consideration, and opportunities [2024]
    • Novel perinatal medical-legal partnership development and pilot implementation to address health-harming legal needs [2024]
• Western countries
  • eLife
    • Trends in female-selective abortion among Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia [2022]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Preventing gender-biased sex selection: an interagency statement [2011]
    • Sex Selection practice is regulated
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Stillbirth, perinatal mortality, neonatal mortality
    • Newborn
    • Induced abortion
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: sexual and reproductive health and rights
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: assisted reproductive technology

Ethics, jurisprudence: gestational carriers, surrogacy

• Africa
  • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
    • Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective [2022]
• Argentina
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Between choices and decisions. Genetics in homoparental families through surrogacy in Argentina [2024]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • Assisted Regulation: Argentine Courts Address Regulatory Gaps on Surrogacy [2023]
• Australia
  • Human Fertility
    • Australian intended parents' decision-making and characteristics and outcomes of surrogacy arrangements completed in Australia and overseas [2023]
  • SA Health
    • Surrogacy in SA Public Health Services Clinical Directive
  • Surrogacy in Australia
    • Surrogacy in Australia
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Surrogacy in Australia and New Zealand [2021]
• Bulgaria
  • African Health Sciences
    • Ethical, medico-legal and financial aspects of the legalization of surrogate maternity in Bulgaria [2025]
• Canada
  • Human Reproduction
    • Assisted reproduction involving gestational surrogacy: an analysis of the medical, psychosocial and legal issues: experience from a large surrogacy program [2014]
• China
  • BioScience Trends
    • The status of surrogacy in China [2023]
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Surrogacy: a family-building option in search of legitimacy [2016]
• Czech Republic
  • Biomedical Papers
    • Gestational surrogacy in the Czech Republic [2019]
• Europe
  • European Parliament
    • Surrogacy: The legal situation in the EU [2025]
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Ethical considerations on surrogacy [2025]
  • Medical Law Review
    • Accommodations of private and family life and non-traditional families: the limits of deference in cases of cross-border surrogacy before the European Court of Human Rights [2024]
    • Parenthood and Cross-Border Surrogacy: What Is ‘New’? The ECtHR’s First Advisory Opinion [2020]
• India
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Regulation of surrogacy in India: whenceforth now? [2018]
  • Cureus
    • The Surrogacy Regulation Act of 2021: A Right Step Towards an Egalitarian and Inclusive Society? [2023]
  • India Code
    • The surrogacy (regulation) act, 2021 [2021]
  • 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]
  • Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences
    • Insight into Different Aspects of Surrogacy Practices [2018]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • National art & Surrogacy Portal
  • Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
    • The advantages and disadvantages of altruistic and commercial surrogacy in India [2023]
  • Qualitative Social Work
    • The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on surrogacy in India: The role of social work [2021]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Reproductive trauma, vulnerable mothers, and disenfranchised grief: reflecting on the affective dimensions of surrogacy practice in Indian literary and film narratives [2024]
• International
  • European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
    • The legally charged issue of cross-border surrogacy: Current regulatory challenges and future prospects [2024]
  • Gynecological and Reproductive Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Surrogacy – a worldwide demand. Implementation and ethical considerations [2021]
  • International Journal of Comparative Sociology
    • Inequalities in (trans)national surrogacy: A call for examining complex lived realities with an empirical lens [2022]
  • Medicina
    • Surrogacy and “Procreative Tourism”. What Does the Future Hold from the Ethical and Legal Perspectives? [2021]
  • OxJournal
    • The Need for Global Surrogacy Guidelines: A Focus on the Current Ethical and Legal Considerations Regarding Surrogates, Intended Parents and Children [2024]
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Commercial Surrogacy: An Overview [2022]
  • United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
    • Key Considerations: Children's Rights & Surrogacy - Briefing Note [2022]
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
    • Surrogacy
  • Wikipedia
    • Surrogacy laws by country
• Ireland
  • International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
    • Prohibiting commercial surrogacy in Ireland [2025]
• Israel
  • Ministry of Health Israel
    • Surrogacy in Israel
• Israel, United States
  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
    • Incidence of surrogacy in the USA and Israel and implications on women’s health: a quantitative comparison [2019]
• Italy
  • Acta Biomedica
    • A child of two mothers: what about the father? Italian overview [2019]
  • La Clinica Terapeutica
    • Is the latest amendment to Law 40/2004 a positive evolution or a regressive move? [2025]
    • Parents' 'fault' must not weigh on their children. Surrogacy as a universal crime in Italy: Is it compatible with bioethical principles? [2024]
  • Open Medicine
    • Ethical and Legal Issues in Gestational Surrogacy [2018]
• New Zealand
  • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
    • New Zealand's Approaches to Regulating the Commodification of the Female Body : A Comparative Analysis Reveals Ethical Inconsistencies [2023]
  • Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission
    • Review of surrogacy [2022]
• Portugal
  • JBRA Assisted Reproduction
    • The new Portuguese law on surrogacy - The story of how a promising law does not really regulate surrogacy arrangements [2017]
• South America
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • A review of surrogate motherhood regulation in south American countries: pointing to a need for an international legal framework [2019]
• Spain
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Having children in cross-border contexts: late-family formation among homoparental families in Spain [2024]
• 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
  • Asian Bioethics Review
    • Non-commercial Surrogacy in Thailand: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications in Local and Global Contexts [2020]
  • 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]
• Ukraine
  • European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences
    • The armed conflict in Ukraine and the risks of inter-country surrogacy: the unsolved dilemma [2022]
  • Medical Anthropology
    • Reproductive Entanglements in Times of War: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy in Ukraine and Beyond [2023]
• United Kingdom
  • British Infertility Counselling Association
    • Counselling challenges associated with donor conception and surrogacy treatments - time for debate [2022]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Having a child through surrogacy
  • Home Office
    • Surrogacy [2023]
  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
    • Surrogacy: a factsheet
  • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
    • Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes [2024]
  • Law Commission
    • Surrogacy
  • Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
    • Options for acquiring motherhood in absolute uterine factor infertility; adoption, surrogacy and uterine transplantation [2021]
  • Reproductive BioMedicine Online
    • The future of surrogacy: a review of current global trends and national landscapes [2024]
  • Right Decisions
    • Surrogacy guideline
  • WISDOM
    • Surrogacy Guideline [2023]
    • Management of Surrogacy Pregnancies Guideline [2023]
• United Kingdom, United States
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • Addressing legal issues in cross-border gestational surrogacy: current topics and trends [2021]
• United States
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Family Building Through Gestational Surrogacy [2016]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Consideration of the gestational carrier: an Ethics Committee opinion [2023]
    • Recommendations for practices using gestational carriers: a committee opinion [2022]
    • Using family members as gamete donors or gestational carriers [2017]
    • Surrogacy Laws By State
    • Gestational Carrier or Surrogacy
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • International gestational surrogacy in the United States, 2014-2020 [2024]
  • JAMA
    • Trends and Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technology Cycles Using a Gestational Carrier Between 2014 and 2020 [2023]
  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
    • National-level assessment of gestational carrier pregnancies in the United States [2025]
    • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gestational carriers [2022]
  • Pediatrics
    • Gestational Carrier Pregnancies: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Pediatricians [2024]
  • Reproductive BioMedicine Online
    • Surrogacy in the United States: analysis of sociodemographic profiles and motivations of surrogates [2024]
  • Travel.State.Gov
    • Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and Surrogacy Abroad
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: assisted reproductive technology

Ethics, jurisprudence: sexual and reproductive health and rights

• Afghanistan
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • "I hope to all the world they don't forget women of Afghanistan": An interrupted survey among doctors in Afghanistan [2023]
• 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]
  • WHO African Region
    • Scorecard on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in WHO African Region [2021]
• Americas
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Maternal Health Analysis of Women and Girls of African Descent in the Americas [2023]
• Arab countries
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments: An Arab States Review [2024]
    • The need for integrated climate change action in sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence programming - Evidence and recommendations for the Arab region [2023]
    • Promoting transitional justice approach to end harmful practices in the Arab region [2021]
• Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Global Health Action
    • Enablers of sexual and reproductive health and rights interventions in low- and middle-income countries. Insights from capacity development projects implemented in 13 countries in Africa and Asia [2022]
• Asia-Pacific
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments: An Asia and the Pacific Review [2024]
• Australia
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
    • Female genital cosmetic surgery
  • SA Health
    • Placenta for Private Use Clinical Directive
  • Women and Birth
    • Identifying and dismantling racism in Australian perinatal settings: Reframing the narrative from a risk lens to intentionally prioritise connectedness and strengths in providing care to First Nations families [2023]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Reproductive health for women with an intellectual disability [2021]
    • Gynaecological examinations and procedures [2020]
    • Vaginal ‘rejuvenation’ and cosmetic vaginal procedures [2019]
• Brazil
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prenatal care and human rights: Addressing the gap between medical and legal frameworks and the experience of women in Brazil [2023]
• Canada
  • Perinatal Services BC
    • Release of Placenta
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and Procedures [2022]
    • 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]
• China
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
    • Effective Privacy Protection Strategies for Pregnancy and Gestation Information From Electronic Medical Records: Retrospective Study in a National Health Care Data Network in China [2024]
  • Journal of Patient Safety
    • Improving the Quality of Maternity Care: Learning From Malpractice [2023]
• Denmark
  • Danish Institute for Human Rights
    • AAAQ & sexual and reproductive health and rights [2017]
• East Africa
  • Global Health Action
    • Two decades of research capacity strengthening and reciprocal learning on sexual and reproductive health in East Africa - a point of (no) return [2024]
• 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]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments: An East and Southern Africa Review [2024]
• Egypt
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Experience of obstetricians and gynecologists in the management of medicolegal cases in Egypt [2022]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Monitoring socioeconomic inequity in maternal health indicators in Egypt: 1995-2005 [2009]
• Eswatini
  • Ministry of Health Eswatini
    • National policy on sexual and reproductive health [2013]
• Ethiopia
  • World Bank
    • Advancing Legislative and Policy Reforms on Sexual and Reproductive Health - Ethiopia [2021]
• Europe
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
    • Policy brief: Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the European Union [2024]
  • Council of Europe
    • Sexual and reproductice health and rights in Europe: Progress and Challenges [2024]
    • Innovative approaches to sexual and reproductive health and rights [2023]
  • European Parliament
    • Sexual and reproductive health and rights [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Discrimination against childbearing Romani women in maternity care in Europe: a mixed-methods systematic review [2017]
  • Social Science & Medicine
    • "It's very much part of this movement to undermine democracy": A qualitative study of European Union level opposition strategies against reproductive health and rights [2024]
• Fiji
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Social capital and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Fiji: a scoping review of humanitarian preparedness and response planning and guidance documents [2025]
• Finland
  • Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
    • Obstetric claims in Finland 2012-2022-A nationwide patient insurance registry study [2024]
• High-income countries
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Strengthening open disclosure after incidents in maternity care: a realist synthesis of international research evidence [2023]
  • Women and Birth
    • Health professionals' experiences of whistleblowing in maternal and newborn healthcare settings: A scoping review and thematic analysis [2024]
• India
  • Global Health Action
    • Inequity in India: the case of maternal and reproductive health [2013]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
    • Reproductive rights of women with intellectual disability in India [2023]
• International
  • BMJ
    • Self care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights [2019]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Why a good law is not always good enough: a global review of restrictions to supportive laws for sexual and reproductive health and rights [2024]
    • Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review [2024]
    • Hostilities faced by people on the frontlines of sexual and reproductive health and rights: a scoping review [2023]
    • 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]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Improving measures of women’s and girls’ sexual empowerment [2024]
    • Advancing the “sexual” in sexual and reproductive health and rights: a global health, gender equality and human rights imperative [2024]
    • Addressing harmful gender norms in sexual health services [2024]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Sexual and reproductive health and rights are basic human rights: The FLASOG Panama Declaration and FIGO Cartagena Declaration [2023]
    • FIGO Ethics and Professionalism Guideline 082: Menstrual Hygiene Management [2021]
    • Sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugee and migrant women: gynecologists' and obstetricians' responsibilities [2020]
    • FIGO Ethics and Professionalism Guideline: Decision Making about Vaginal and Caesarean Delivery [2020]
    • FIGO Ethics and Professionalism Guideline 076: Criminal Proceedings for Medical Errors in Obstetrics and Gynecology [2020]
  • 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]
  • Lancet
    • Accelerate progress-sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: report of the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission [2018]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Masculinities and sexual and reproductive health and rights: a global research priority setting exercise [2024]
  • Lancet Planetary Health
    • Key considerations for research into how climate change affects sexual and reproductive health and rights [2024]
  • 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]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • The dynamics of funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocacy and movement building [2023]
    • A digital health governance agenda for sexual and reproductive health and rights [2023]
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
    • Sexual and reproductive health and rights | OHCHR
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2024]
    • Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Private Sector [2024]
    • Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments: A Global Review [2023]
    • Sexual and Reproductive Justice Cannot Wait: All Rights, All People, Acting Now [2023]
    • Gender Transformative Approaches to Achieve Gender Equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2023]
    • Advancing Rights, Transforming Lives: Strategic Engagement with the United Nations Human Rights System to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2023]
    • No Exceptions, No Exclusions: Realizing sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice for all [2021]
    • 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]
• Iran
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • A pronatalist turn in population policies in Iran and its likely adverse impacts on reproductive rights, health and inequality: a critical narrative review [2023]
• Iraq
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights regulatory frameworks across the Arab states region - Iraq [2022]
• Japan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Characteristics and trends of medical malpractice claims in Japan between 2006 and 2021 [2023]
• Jordan
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights regulatory frameworks across the Arab states region - Jordan [2022]
• 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]
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Health Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean. A Baseline for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health [2023]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments: A Latin America and the Caribbean Review [2024]
• 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]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Expanding access to sexual and reproductive health and rights through evidence-based policy dialogue: implications for practice from a multicountry initiative [2025]
    • Necessary but not sufficient: a scoping review of legal accountability for sexual and reproductive health in low-income and middle-income countries [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Systematic review of reviews on interventions to engage men and boys as clients, partners and agents of change for improved sexual and reproductive health and rights [2025]
  • BMJ Public Health
    • Climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights research in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review [2024]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • A composite index; socioeconomic deprivation and coverage of reproductive and maternal health interventions [2024]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Accelerating Progress in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Decision-Making: Trends in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Future Perspectives [2024]
  • Journal of Urban Health
    • The Urban Environment and Disparities in Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes in the Global South: a Scoping Review [2023]
  • 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]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Accelerating Progress in Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Decision-Making: Trends in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Future Perspectives [2024]
• Malawi
  • Ministry of Health Malawi
    • National sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policy [2017]
• Mexico
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Prevalence of different variations of non-consented care during the childbirth process in Mexico by geographical regions: comparing ENDIREH survey data from 2016 to 2021 [2024]
• Netherlands
  • BMJ Quality & Safety
    • Consent and refusal of procedures during labour and birth: a survey among 11 418 women in the Netherlands [2024]
• Nigeria
  • Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
    • National Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Persons with Disabilities with emphasis on Women and Girls [2018]
• Norway
  • Regjeringen.no
    • Norwegian guidelines for sexual and reproductive health [2022]
• OECD countries
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
    • Transforming laws and norms to achieve universal sexual and reproductive health and rights [2025]
• Palestine
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Sexual and reproductive health and rights in Palestine - securing spaces to speak out [2024]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights Regulatory Frameworks across the Arab States Region - Palestine [2022]
• Portugal
  • Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
    • Medico-legal litigation in Obstetrics: a characterization analysis of a decade in Portugal [2015]
• South Africa
  • National Department of Health South Africa
    • National Integrated Sexual Reproductive Health and Right Policy 2020 [2020]
  • South African Medical Research Council
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Disability Policy Analysis [2021]
• Southern Africa
  • Southern African Development Community
    • Score Card for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the SADC Region Fast tracking the Strategy for SRHR in the SADC Region 2019 – 2030 [2019]
  • United Nations Development Programme
    • Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Key Populations in Law and Policy: A Handbook for Decision Makers [2024]
• Spain
  • PLoS ONE
    • Professional responsibility in obstetric-gynecological nursing: Update of the case law of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia (Spain) [2023]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Health technology assessment for sexual reproductive health and rights benefits package design in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review of evidence-informed deliberative processes [2024]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Support for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a new index based on World Values Survey data [2024]
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health and rights and their associations with reproductive agency: a population-based cross-sectional study in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe [2024]
• Sweden
  • International Journal of Public Health
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Migrants in Sweden: An Ideal-Type Analysis Exploring Regional Variations of Accessible Documents [2024]
  • Public Health Agency of Sweden
    • National Strategy for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) [2022]
• Switzerland
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Are pregnancy outcomes affected by the lack of legal status? A demographic study based on 850,288 live births in Switzerland [2023]
• Tanzania
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
    • Report on Tanzania’s Compliance with its Human Rights Obligations on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2021]
• Uganda
  • Women's Health
    • A scoping review of qualitative studies on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Uganda: Exploring factors at multiple levels [2024]
• Ukraine
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • Sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice in the war against Ukraine 2022 [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Virginity testing and hymenoplasty multi-agency guidance
  • Frontiers in Dementia
    • Intersecting sex and gender diversity with sexual rights for people living with dementia in later life: an example of developing a learning framework for policy and practice [2024]
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
    • Inequalities in sexual and reproductive outcomes among women aged 16-24 in England (2012-2019) [2024]
  • Midwifery
    • Consent practices in midwifery: A survey of UK midwives [2024]
• United States
  • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
    • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement: Breastfeeding As a Basic Human Right [2022]
    • 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
    • Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Obstetrics and Gynecology [2024]
    • Ethical Considerations for Increasing Inclusivity in Research Participants [2024]
    • Addressing Social and Structural Determinants of Health in the Delivery of Reproductive Health Care: ACOG Committee Statement No. 11 [2024]
    • ACOG Committee Statement No. 12: Health Care for Women and Gender-Diverse Active-Duty and Reserve Uniformed Service Members and Veterans [2024]
    • Health Care for Immigrants [2023]
    • Ethical Considerations for the Delivery of Obstetric and Gynecologic Care During a Pandemic [2023]
    • 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]
    • 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]
  • American Psychological Association
    • APA Resolution on Confidentiality and Reproductive Health [2023]
  • Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
    • The Use of Chaperones during Sensitive Examinations and Treatments [2022]
    • Racism and Bias in Maternity Care Settings [2021]
    • Nursing Care of Incarcerated Women During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period [2018]
  • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
    • America's Racial Reckoning Within Perinatal Communication: A Rapid Review Using Sociotechnical Systems Theory to Compare Publications Before and After 2020 [2023]
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    • Advancing Clinical Research with Pregnant and Lactating Populations [2024]
    • Research with Pregnant and Lactating Persons: Mitigating Risk and Liability: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief [2023]
    • Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating Persons in Clinical Trials: Proceedings of a Workshop [2022]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Integrating Lawyers Into Perinatal Care Teams to Address Unmet, Health-Harming Legal Needs [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin [2023]
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [2025]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Social determinants of health and obstetric outcomes: A report and recommendations of the workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine [2024]
    • Executive summary: Workshop on social determinants of health and obstetrical outcomes, February 1–2, 2022, cosponsored by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the Commonwealth Foundation, and the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, with support from the Society for Women’s Health Research [2023]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Cognitive bias and medical error in obstetrics—challenges and opportunities [2022]
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #62: Best practices in equitable care delivery–Addressing systemic racism and other social determinants of health as causes of obstetrical disparities [2022]
  • Women's Health
    • Centering disability visibility in reproductive health care: Dismantling barriers to achieve reproductive equity [2023]
• Vietnam
  • BMC Public Health
    • Causes and determinants of inequity in maternal and child health in Vietnam [2012]
• West and Central Africa
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Taking Stock: Sexual and Reproductive and Health and Rights in Climate Commitments: A West and Central Africa Review [2024]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • The role of artificial intelligence in sexual and reproductive health and rights [2024]
    • Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights: country cases [2024]
    • Extending sexual and reproductive health and rights to future generations through science and evidence [2024]
    • Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights to advance universal health coverage: 2023 joint statement by HRP, WHO, UNDP, UNFPA and the World Bank [2023]
    • Inequality monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health [2022]
    • Companion workbook: exercises to guide the process of inequality monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health [2022]
    • Sexual and reproductive health interventions in the WHO UHC Compendium [2021]
    • Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Infographic snapshot [2021]
    • Economic and financing considerations of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights [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]
    • State of inequality: reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [2015]
    • 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
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights national policies
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Sterilization
    • Prenatal screening and diagnosis
    • Induced abortion
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: assisted reproductive technology
    • Cloning, stem cells
    • Adolescence

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
    • Key populations are being left behind in universal health coverage: landscape review of health insurance schemes in the Asia-Pacific region [2022]
    • Legal and policy trends impacting people living with HIV and key populations in Asia and the Pacific 2014–2019 [2021]
• Australia
  • HIV Legal
    • HIV Legal
  • HIV/AIDS Legal Centre
    • Publications
• Brazil
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Discrimination, stigma, and AIDS: a review of academic literature produced in Brazil (2005-2010) [2012]
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Necropolitics in the field of HIV: some reflections from the stigma of AIDS [2021]
  • Global Public Health
    • Stigmatisation and resistance processes: Reflections on the field of HIV research and an agenda for contemporary stigma studies [2024]
  • 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 Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
    • Canadian consensus statement on HIV and its transmission in the context of criminal law [2014]
  • HIV Legal Network
    • Publications
  • 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]
• Central and Eastern Europe
  • AIDS Research and Therapy
    • Addressing HIV stigma in healthcare, community, and legislative settings in Central and Eastern Europe [2023]
• Central Asia, Europe
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
    • HIV stigma in the healthcare setting: Monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia [2024]
    • Stigma: survey of people living with HIV - Monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia: 2022 progress report [2023]
    • Thematic report: HIV and migrants [2017]
• China
  • PLoS ONE
    • Stigma against People Living with HIV/AIDS in China: Does the Route of Infection Matter? [2016]
• Colombia
  • Healthcare
    • HIV Stigma and Discrimination in Colombian Healthcare: Insights from a National Cross-Sectional Analysis of General Practitioners [2025]
• East Africa
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients and associated factors among women in East African countries: using the most recent DHS data (2015-2022) [2024]
• East Asia
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • The Influence of Anticipated HIV Stigma on Health-related Behaviors, Self-rated Health, and Treatment Preferences Among People Living with HIV in East Asia [2023]
• Eastern and Southern Africa
  • UNAIDS
    • Impact of community-led and community-based HIV service delivery beyond HIV: case studies from eastern and southern Africa [2025]
• Egypt
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV by health care providers in Egypt [2023]
• Ethiopia
  • AIDS Research and Treatment
    • Perceived Stigma and Its Association with Gender and Disclosure Status among People Living with HIV/AIDS and Attending Antiretroviral Therapy Clinics in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care
    • Predictors of Discrimination Towards People Living with HIV/AIDS Among People Aged 15–49 Years in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Perceived stigma and depression among the HIV-positive adult people in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
    • Evaluation of a guideline developed to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings and establishing consensus [2018]
  • SAHARA-J
    • Factors associated with discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV among adult population in Ethiopia: analysis on Ethiopian demographic and health survey [2020]
• 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]
• Germany
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Associations Between Experienced and Internalized HIV Stigma, Adversarial Growth, and Health Outcomes in a Nationwide Sample of People Aging with HIV in Germany [2021]
• Ghana
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Multilevel analysis of discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS and associated factors in Ghana: demographic health survey of 2022 Ghana data [2024]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Endorsement of HIV-related stigma among men in Ghana: What are the determinants? [2024]
• Hong Kong
  • BMC Public Health
    • HIV-related public stigma in the era of "Undetectable = Untransmittable": a population-based study in Hong Kong [2024]
• India
  • Journal of Global Health
    • HIV-related stigma trends in the general population of India during an era of antiretroviral treatment expansion, 2005-16 [2020]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Handbook on Prevention and Management of Stigma and Discrimination Associated with HIV & AIDS [2022]
    • The HIV & AIDS (P & C) Act, 2017
  • Scientific Reports
    • Sociodemographic correlates of discrimination against PLHIV in High HIV prevalence states of India, NFHS 2016-21 [2023]
  • United Nations Development Programme
    • A global HIV stigma reduction framework adapted and implemented in five settings in India [2013]
• Indonesia
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • Misconceptions and stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS: a cross-sectional study from 2017 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
  • PeerJ
    • Investigation of discriminatory attitude toward people living with HIV in the family context using socio-economic factors and information sources: A nationwide study in Indonesia [2022]
• International
  • AIDS
    • Systematic review and quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis of interventions to address HIV-related stigma and discrimination [2023]
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • HIV Among Indigenous peoples: A Review of the Literature on HIV-Related Behaviour Since the Beginning of the Epidemic [2015]
  • Annals of Global Health
    • The Fight for an AIDS-Free World: Confronting the Stigma, Reaching the Marginalized [2024]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Socio-demographic, clinical and service use determinants associated with HIV related stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Explaining inequity in knowledge, attitude, and services related to HIV/AIDS: a systematic review [2024]
    • Temporal trends in inequalities of the burden of HIV/AIDS across 186 countries and territories [2023]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Law, criminalisation and HIV in the world: have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful pandemic response? [2021]
    • Understanding and comparing HIV-related law and policy environments: cross-national data and accountability for the global AIDS response [2020]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • HIV-related stigma and associated factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Global Commission on HIV and the Law
    • Global Commission on HIV and the Law
  • HIV Justice Network
    • HIV Justice Network
  • International AIDS Society
    • Ethical considerations in HIV cure research: points to consider [2013]
  • International Labour Organization
    • HIV and AIDS
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Frameworks and measures for HIV-related internalized stigma, stigma and discrimination in healthcare and in laws and policies: a systematic review [2022]
    • 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]
  • UN Women
    • Financing for gender equality in the HIV response [2021]
    • HIV and AIDS
  • UNAIDS
    • Stigma and discrimination towards key populations: measuring attitudes, practices and actions among law enforcement [2025]
    • Preventing and responding to an HIV-related human rights crisis — Guidance for United Nations agencies and programmes [2024]
    • Ethics considerations for HIV phylogenetic analyses [2024]
    • Equity in the HIV response: Assessing progress and charting a way forward [2024]
    • Code of conduct to prevent abusive conduct and sexual misconduct at UNAIDS events and gatherings [2024]
    • Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate All Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination [2023]
    • Decriminalisation and the end of AIDS: keep the promise, follow the science, and fulfill human rights [2023]
    • Ending inequalities and getting on track to end AIDS by 2030 — A summary of the commitments and targets within the United Nations General Assembly’s 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS [2022]
    • Ending AIDS, ending inequalities — Fast-Track Cities [2022]
    • Dangerous inequalities: World AIDS Day report 2022 [2022]
    • Community-led AIDS responses — Final report based on the recommendations of the multistakeholder task team [2022]
    • HIV criminalization — 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 World AIDS Day report — Unequal, unprepared, under threat: why bold action against inequalities is needed to end AIDS, stop COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics [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]
• Ireland
  • Health
    • The discursive construction of HIV stigma in Irish print media [2021]
• Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Social History of Medicine
    • AIDS Inside and Out: HIV/AIDS and Penal Policy in Ireland and England & Wales in the 1980s and 1990s [2020]
• Italy
  • Scientific Reports
    • Investigating coping and stigma in people living with HIV through narrative medicine in the Italian multicentre non-interventional study DIAMANTE [2023]
• Kenya
  • African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
    • HIV stigma in Kenya: A family medicine led community orientated primary care approach [2021]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • The role of unintended pregnancy in internalized stigma among women living with HIV in Kenya [2021]
  • Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
    • Modeling the Effect of HIV/AIDS Stigma on HIV Infection Dynamics in Kenya [2021]
  • Health and Human Rights Journal
    • The HIV and AIDS Tribunal of Kenya: An Effective Mechanism for the Enforcement of HIV-related Human Rights? [2016]
  • Ministry of Health Kenya
    • The National HIV Aids Stigma and Discrimination Index [2015]
• Latin America
  • PLoS ONE
    • Levels of Spending and Resource Allocation to HIV Programs and Services in Latin America and the Caribbean [2011]
• 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]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Consensus on Adolescent and Young Adult HIV Research Consent in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2025]
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • Combating HIV stigma in low- and middle-income healthcare settings: a scoping review [2020]
    • 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]
  • Malawi Legal Information Institute
    • HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Management) Act, 2017
• Mozambique
  • SAHARA-J
    • Consensus on context-specific strategies for reducing the stigma of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zambézia Province, Mozambique [2013]
• Myanmar
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Characterization of HIV-Related Stigma in Myanmar [2023]
• Netherlands
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Unmasking Individual and Institutional HIV Stigma in Hospitals: Perspectives of Dutch Healthcare Providers [2024]
• Nigeria
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Characterizing the Relationship between HIV Peer Support Groups and Internalized Stigma Among People Living with HIV in Nigeria [2024]
  • 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]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • HIV / AIDS-Related Laws and Policies
• 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]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and factors associated with external HIV-related stigma in the South African population: Results from the 2017 population-based household survey [2024]
  • Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine
    • Be legally wise: When is parental consent required for adolescents’ access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)? [2020]
  • SSM - Population Health
    • Factors associated with external HIV-related stigma and psychological distress among people living with HIV in South Africa [2021]
• South Africa, Zambia
  • Journal of the International AIDS Society
    • The association between HIV stigma and HIV incidence in the context of universal testing and treatment: analysis of data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial in Zambia and South Africa [2022]
• Southern Africa
  • BMC Public Health
    • How does HIV-related stigma correlate with HIV prevalence in African countries? Distinct perspectives from individuals living with and living without HIV [2023]
• 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]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Individual and community level factors associated with discriminatory attitudes against people living with HIV/AIDS among women of reproductive age in three sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from the most recent demographic and health survey (2021/22) [2024]
  • BMJ Open
    • Scoping review of HIV-related intersectional stigma among sexual and gender minorities in sub-Saharan Africa [2024]
  • Global Public Health
    • Temporal changes in HIV-related stigma and sexual behaviours: An examination of 22 African countries [2024]
  • PLoS ONE
    • HIV-related perceived stigma and internalized stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
• Sweden
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence of HIV-related stigma manifestations and their contributing factors among people living with HIV in Sweden - a nationwide study [2024]
• Switzerland
  • AIDS
    • Prevalence of HIV-related stigma among people with HIV in Switzerland: addressing the elephant in the room [2024]
• Thailand
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Stigmatizing and discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) among general adult population: the results from the 6th Thai National Health Examination Survey (NHES VI) [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Improving Ethical and Participatory Practice for Marginalized Populations in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials: Lessons from Thailand [2014]
• Uganda
  • Uganda Legal Information Institute
    • HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Act, 2015
• Ukraine
  • United Nations Development Programme
    • Guide on the international standards, ECHR case law and national case law on HIV/AIDS and TB: Lawyer’s legal tools [2022]
• United Kingdom
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Awareness, Understanding and HIV Stigma in Response to Undetectable = Untransmittable Messages: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample in the United Kingdom [2022]
  • British HIV Association
    • BHIVA Position Statement on HIV, the law and the work of the clinical team [2024]
    • HIV transmission, the Law and the work of the clinical team, January 2013 [2014]
  • UK Health Security Agency
    • Positive Voices 2022: survey report
• United States
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Assessing Structural Racism and Discrimination Along the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Continuum: A Systematic Review [2024]
  • 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]
  • Center for HIV Law and Policy
    • Center for HIV Law and Policy
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • HIV criminalization legal and policy assessment tool : legal, health, and equity considerations related to HIV criminalization, public health surveillance, and data privacy [2022]
    • HIV Stigma and Health Care Discrimination Experienced by Hispanic or Latino Persons with HIV — United States, 2018–2020 [2022]
    • Association Between Social Vulnerability and Rates of HIV Diagnoses Among Black Adults, by Selected Characteristics and Region of Residence — United States, 2018 [2022]
  • Congress.gov
    • Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2021 [2021]
  • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
    • Ending the HIV epidemic for all, not just some: structural racism as a fundamental but overlooked social-structural determinant of the US HIV epidemic [2022]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Assessing Different Types of HIV Communication and Sociocultural Factors on Perceived HIV Stigma and Testing among a National Sample of Youth and Young Adults [2022]
  • mHealth
    • mHealth to reduce HIV-related stigma among youth in the United States: a scoping review [2021]
  • Movement Advancement Project
    • HIV Criminalization Laws
  • National Institutes of Health
    • HIV-Related Stigma Research as a Priority at the National Institutes of Health [2021]
  • Public Health Reports
    • Effect of CDC 2006 Revised HIV Testing Recommendations for Adults, Adolescents, Pregnant Women, and Newborns on State Laws, 2018 [2020]
• Vietnam
  • AIDS and Behavior
    • Empowering Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam: A Hybrid Online-Offline Intervention to Combat Stigma [2024]
  • 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
    • Ensuring quality health care by reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination: technical brief [2024]
    • HIV/AIDS - stand up for human rights [2010]
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • HIV basic knowledge and stigma reduction in health care settings [2015]
• Zimbabwe
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Zimbabwean law and its impact on HIV programmes for key populations [2023]
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  • Topic
    • HIV/AIDS

Umbilical cord blood banking

• Australia
  • NSW Health
    • Cord Blood Banking
  • SA Health
    • Collection of Cord Blood in SA Public Health Services for Private Cord Blood Banking Clinical Directive
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Altruistic and directed umbilical cord blood banking for families at risk [2020]
• Canada
  • Canadian Blood Services
    • A Portrait of Cord Blood Units Distributed for Transplantation from Canadian Blood Services' Cord Blood Bank: First Analysis [2022]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Umbilical Cord Blood: Counselling, Collection, and Banking [2015]
• Europe
  • Haematologica
    • Family-directed umbilical cord blood banking [2011]
• Greece
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Perspectives for the Use of Umbilical Cord Blood in Transplantation and Beyond: Initiatives for an Advanced and Sustainable Public Banking Program in Greece [2024]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Consensus Statement of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2018]
• International
  • Cord Blood Association
    • Model Criteria for Regulation of Cord Blood Banks and Cord Blood Banking [2019]
  • Life
    • Fresh Umbilical Cord Blood-A Source of Multipotent Stem Cells, Collection, Banking, Cryopreservation, and Ethical Concerns [2023]
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Informed consent for cord blood donation. A theoretical and empirical study [2011]
• Mexico
  • BMC Medical Ethics
    • Ethical issues relating to the banking of umbilical cord blood in Mexico [2009]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Inconsistencies in Pregnant Mothers' Attitudes and Willingness to Donate Umbilical Cord Stem Cells: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from Saudi Arabia [2023]
• Spain
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Efficiency assessment of cord blood banking and compatibility with delayed cord clamping [2024]
• Switzerland
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Hybrid umbilical cord blood banking: literature review [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
    • BSHI guideline: HLA matching and donor selection for haematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation [2021]
  • Human Tissue Authority
    • Umbilical cord blood banking
  • NHS Blood and Transplant
    • Cord Blood Bank
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Banking [2006]
• United States
  • 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]
  • American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
    • Guidelines for Pediatric Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation-Unique Considerations [2021]
    • Guidelines for Cord Blood Unit Thaw and Infusion [2020]
    • Guidelines for Cord Blood Unit Selection [2020]
  • Blood
    • Selection of unrelated donors and cord blood units for hematopoietic cell transplantation: guidelines from the NMDP/CIBMTR [2019]
  • 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]
  • Stem Cells Translational Medicine
    • Mitigation of supply chain challenges in cell therapy manufacturing: perspectives from the cord blood alliance [2024]
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  • Topic
    • Cloning, stem cells