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Australia

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

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Therapeutic termination of pregnancy

• SA Health
  • Termination of pregnancy

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • First-trimester medical abortion practices in Canada: National survey [2016]
  • Abortion health services in Canada: Results of a 2012 national survey [2016]

China

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

Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Surgical versus medical methods for second trimester induced abortion
  • Surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
  • Perioperative antibiotics to prevent infection after first-trimester abortion
  • Nitric oxide donors for cervical ripening in first-trimester surgical abortion
  • Misoprostol for induction of labour to terminate pregnancy in the second or third trimester for women with a fetal anomaly or after intrauterine fetal death
  • Medical versus surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
  • Medical methods for mid-trimester termination of pregnancy
  • Medical methods for first trimester abortion
  • Doctors or mid-level providers for abortion
  • Cervical preparation for second trimester dilation and evacuation
  • Cervical preparation for first trimester surgical abortion
  • Antibiotics for incomplete abortion

Developing countries

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Facility-based treatment for medical complications resulting from unsafe pregnancy termination in the developing world, 2012: a review of evidence from 26 countries [2016]

Estonia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Abortion trends from 1996 to 2011 in Estonia: special emphasis on repeat abortion [2014]

Europe

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Austerity and Abortion in the European Union [2016]

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

Finland

• PLoS ONE
  • Perinatal outcomes after induced termination of pregnancy by methods: A nationwide register-based study of first births in Finland 1996–2013 [2017]

Honduras

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Changes in the use of manual vacuum aspiration for postabortion care within the public healthcare service network in Honduras [2014]

International

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

• Lancet
  • Global, regional, and subregional classification of abortions by safety, 2010–14: estimates from a Bayesian hierarchical model [2017]

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

Iran

• Archives of Iranian Medicine
  • Induced abortion rate in Iran: a meta-analysis [2013]

Kenya

• BMC Public Health
  • Factors associated with repeat induced abortion in Kenya [2015]

Kyrgyzstan

• Contraception
  • Provision of medical abortion by midlevel healthcare providers in Kyrgyzstan: testing an intervention to expand safe abortion services to underserved rural and periurban areas [2018]

Malawi

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Costs of postabortion care in public sector health facilities in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Decrease in Use of Manual Vacuum Aspiration in Postabortion Care in Malawi: A Cross-Sectional Study from Three Public Hospitals, 2008–2012 [2014]

Nepal

• Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
  • Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal [2017]
  • Increasing Awareness and Access to Safe Abortion among Nepalese Women: An evaluation of Network for Addressing Women's Reproductive Rights in Nepal (NAWRN) Program [2009]
  • The Influence of Male Partners in Pregnancy Decision-Making and Outcomes in Nepal [2007]
  • Unsafe Abortion. Nepal Country Profile 2006 [2006]
  • Nepal Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) National Facility-based Abortion Study 2006 [2006]

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

Norway

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Implementing medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol in Norway 1998–2013 [2016]

Pakistan

• Studies in Family Planning
  • Induced Abortions and Unintended Pregnancies in Pakistan [2014]

South Africa

• World Health Organization
  • What health-care providers say on providing abortion care in Cape Town, South Africa: findings from a qualitative study: social science policy brief [2010]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Preventing unsafe abortion to reduce maternal mortality: report of the regional meeting, Kathmandu, Nepal, 17-20 Septermber 2012 [2013]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Health care providers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards induced abortions in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia: a systematic literature review of qualitative and quantitative data [2015]

Tanzania

• PLoS ONE
  • Incidence of Induced Abortion and Post-Abortion Care in Tanzania [2015]

Thailand

• Reproductive Health
  • A survey of manual vacuum aspiration’s experiences among the new medical graduates in Thailand [2013]

Uganda

• BMC Public Health
  • Estimating the Costs of Induced Abortion in Uganda: A Model-Based Analysis [2011]

• PLoS ONE
  • Incidence of Induced Abortion in Uganda, 2013: New Estimates Since 2003 [2016]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Abortion statistics: protocols on disclosing personal data
  • Abortion statistics, England and Wales

• Royal College of Nursing
  • Termination of Pregnancy [2017]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Comprehensive Postabortion Care [2016]
  • Comprehensive abortion care [2015]
  • The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion [2011]

United States of America, Canada

• PLoS ONE
  • First trimester medication abortion practice in the United States and Canada [2017]

United States of America

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Reproductive Decisions [2017]

• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Abortion Training and Education [2014]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2014 [2017]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Society of Family Planning clinical guidelines: pain control in surgical abortion part 1 — local anesthesia and minimal sedation [2018]
  • Medical abortion reporting of efficacy: the MARE guidelines [2016]
  • Cervical dilation before first-trimester surgical abortion (<14 weeks' gestation) [2016]
  • Medical management of first-trimester abortion [2014]
  • Cervical preparation for second-trimester surgical abortion prior to 20 weeks' gestation [2014]
  • Surgical abortion prior to 7 weeks of gestation [2013]
  • Management of postabortion hemorrhage [2013]
  • Interruption of nonviable pregnancies of 24–28 weeks' gestation using medical methods [2013]
  • First-trimester abortion in women with medical conditions [2012]
  • Prevention of infection after induced abortion [2011]
  • Labor induction abortion in the second trimester [2011]
  • Induction of fetal demise before abortion [2010]
  • Cervical preparation for surgical abortion from 20 to 24 weeks’ gestation [2008]

Vietnam

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

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Preventing unsafe abortion [2017]
  • Expanding health worker roles for safe abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy [2016]
  • Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception [2015]
  • Overview of abortion cases with severe maternal outcomes in the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health: a descriptive analysis [2014]
  • From concept to measurement: operationalizing WHO’s definition of unsafe abortion [2014]
  • Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion [2014]
  • The World Health Organization’s Safe Abortion Guidance Document [2013]
  • Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems [2012]
  • Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2008 [2011]
  • Unsafe abortion - Global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003 - 5th edition [2007]
  • Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic [2006]
  • Preventing unsafe abortion and its consequences - Priorities for Research and Action [2006]
  • Managing incomplete abortion [2006]
  • Frequently Asked Clinical Questions about medical abortion [2006]
  • Preventing unsafe abortion
  • Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception - Interactive website

Zambia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Signal functions for measuring the ability of health facilities to provide abortion services: an illustrative analysis using a health facility census in Zambia [2016]

Articles in journals

• Reproductive Health
  • Measuring abortion-related mortality: challenges and opportunities [2015]

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