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Africa

• WHO African Region
  • WHO African Region's Countries Abortion Health Profiles [2020]

Argentina, Nigeria, South-East Asia

• JAMA Network Open
  • Medication Abortion Safety and Effectiveness With Misoprostol Alone [2023]

Australia

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Time trends and characteristics associated with abortion method used by young Australian women [2025]

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Evidence-based practice and policy recommendations regarding early medical abortion: a consensus statement [2020]

• Queensland Health
  • Termination of pregnancy

• SA Health
  • Termination of Pregnancy in the First Trimester
  • Termination of Pregnancy and Intrauterine Fetal Death in the Second Trimester

• WA Health
  • Western Australian Abortion Care Clinical Guidelines

Australia, New Zealand

• Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Exploring Emotional Well-Being and Support of Midwives Who Provide Termination of Pregnancy Care: An International Survey [2025]

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The use of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynaecology [2024]
  • Clinical Guideline for Abortion Care

Bangladesh

• BMC Research Notes
  • Socioeconomic inequalities of pregnancy termination among reproductive age women in Bangladesh: a decomposition analysis using demographic and health survey [2024]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh National Comprehensive Menstrual Regulation (MR) and Post-Abortion Care (PAC) Services Guidelines [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • Cost of goods sold analysis and recommendations to reduce costs of co-packaged mifepristone–misoprostol for medical abortion [2020]

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Estimation of induced abortions in Brazil: review of the indirect method calculation based on hospital admissions due to abortion complications [2025]
  • Abortion-related complications in Brazil: results from the World Health Organization Multi-country Survey on Abortion (MCS-A) [2025]

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • National Abortion Survey - Brazil, 2021 [2023]
  • Abortion and race in Brazil, National Abortion Surveys 2016 to 2021 [2023]
  • The use of misoprostol in the termination of pregnancy: a review of studies carried [2022]

Burkina Faso

• Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health
  • The Domestication of Misoprostol for Abortion in Burkina Faso: Interactions Between Caregivers, Drug Vendors and Women [2022]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Postabortion care service availability, readiness, and access in Burkina Faso: results from linked female-facility cross-sectional data [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Induced abortion incidence and safety in Burkina Faso in 2020: Results from a population-based survey using direct and social network-based estimation approaches [2022]

• Studies in Family Planning
  • Social Network-Based Induced Abortion Incidence Estimation in Burkina Faso: Examining the Impact of the Network Generating Question [2022]

Cambodia

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • A prospective, comparative study of clinical outcomes following clinic-based versus self-use of medical abortion [2023]

Canada

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Nurse practitioner medication abortion providers in Canada: results from a national survey [2025]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • First-trimester surgical abortion practice in Canada in 2012 [2023]
  • Abortion remains absent from family medicine training in Canada [2018]
  • First-trimester medical abortion practices in Canada: National survey [2016]
  • Abortion health services in Canada: Results of a 2012 national survey [2016]

• CMAJ Open
  • Abortion services and providers in Canada in 2019: results of a national survey [2022]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Induced Abortion: Surgical Abortion and Second Trimester Medical Methods [2018]
  • Medical Abortion [2016]
  • Medical Abortion in Canada
  • Abortion

Canada, United States

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

China

• Advances in Therapy
  • Post Abortion Care and Management After Induced Abortion During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Chinese Expert Consensus [2021]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Recent trend and correlates of induced abortion in China: evidence from the 2017 China Fertility Survey [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Prevalence of induced abortion among Chinese women aged 18-49 years: Findings from three cross-sectional studies [2022]

• Nursing Open
  • Psychosocial intervention programme based on the needs of women undergoing termination of pregnancy for foetal anomalies: A modified Delphi study [2024]

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Estimating induced abortion incidence and the use of non-recommended abortion methods and sources in two provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa and Kongo Central) in 2021: results from population-based, cross-sectional surveys of reproductive-aged women [2023]

Denmark

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Medication and procedural abortions before 13 weeks gestation and risk of psychiatric disorders [2024]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
  • Lifetime Induced Abortions and Live Births: A 40-Year Historical Cohort Study [2024]

Denmark, Finland, Netherlands

• Birth Defects Research
  • The quality and the accuracy of codes for terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomalies recorded in hospital databases in three countries in northern Europe [2023]

East Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Pooled prevalence and associated factors of pregnancy termination among youth aged 15-24 year women in East Africa: Multilevel level analysis [2023]

• Scientific Reports
  • Employing machine learning models to predict pregnancy termination among adolescent and young women aged 15-24 years in East Africa [2024]

Estonia

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

Ethiopia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Client satisfaction with abortion care service and its associated factors among women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence and determinants of pregnancy termination in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Heliyon
  • The level and deriving factors of repeat-induced abortion in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• Ministry of Health Ethiopia
  • Technical and Procedural Guideline for Abortion Care Services in Ethiopia [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Induced abortion among female students in higher education institutions in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Europe

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

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • Induced abortion [2017]

• WHO European Region
  • Abortions per 1000 live births

Finland

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Fear of childbirth after induced abortion in primiparous women: Population-based register study from Finland [2024]

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

• Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Factors influencing the risk of repeat termination of pregnancy: A register-based study in Finland [2023]

France

• PLoS ONE
  • Medication abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic in France: A research based on the French national health insurance database [2024]

Georgia

• BMC Health Services Research
  • The impact of COVID-19-related restrictions on pregnancy and abortion rates in the Republic of Georgia [2023]

Germany

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Assessment of relevance and actual implementation of person-centeredness in healthcare and social support services for women with unintended pregnancy in Germany (CarePreg): results of expert workshops [2024]

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Terminations of Pregnancy in the Pandemic Years 2020-2022 Compared to 2011-2019 [2024]

Ghana

• BMC Public Health
  • Individual and community-level factors associated with repeat induced abortion among women in Ghana: a multivariable complex sample logistic regression analysis of 2017 Ghana maternal health survey [2024]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Determinants of abortion among women of reproductive age in Ghana: multilevel analysis evidence from the 2022 Ghana demographic and health survey [2025]

• Nursing Open
  • Assessment of socio demographic factors on termination of pregnancy in Ghana [2024]

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]

India

• BMJ Global Health
  • Incidence of treatment for postabortion complications in India, 2015 [2020]

• Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
  • MTP Upto and Beyond 24 Weeks’ Gestation [2024]

• Global Public Health
  • The transformative terrain: An in-depth analysis of trends in self-managed abortion in India using NFHS-5 national data [2025]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Comprehensive Abortion Care [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Landscape assessment of the availability of medical abortion medicines in India [2024]

Indonesia

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Pregnancy Termination Among Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence from the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey [2025]

International

• Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Early medical abortion [2025]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Measuring availability of and facility readiness to deliver comprehensive abortion care: experiences and lessons learnt from integrating abortion into WHO's health facility assessments [2024]
  • Inclusion of abortion-related care in national health benefit packages: results from a WHO global survey [2023]
  • Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019 [2022]
  • Beyond safety: the 2022 WHO abortion guidelines and the future of abortion safety measurement [2022]
  • Abortion metrics: a scoping review of abortion measures and indicators [2021]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Medical methods for first trimester abortion [2022]
  • Self-administered versus provider-administered medical abortion [2020]

• Contraception
  • Standardizing abortion research outcomes (STAR): Results from an international consensus development study [2021]

• European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
  • The tools used to assess psychological symptoms in women and their partners after termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly: A scoping review [2023]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO Mifepristone & Misoprostol and Misoprostol Only Dosing Charts 2023 [2023]
  • Abortifacient Product Quality [2021]
  • Abortion Access and Safety with COVID-19 [2020]
  • FIGO Committee Statement: Ethical responsibilities in post-abortion care [2019]

• International Planned Parenthood Federation
  • IMAP Statement Abortion Self-Care [2021]
  • IMAP statement on medical abortion [2018]

• Ipas
  • Medical Abortion Reference Guide: Induced abortion and postabortion care at or after 13 weeks gestation (‘second trimester’) [2018]
  • Postabortion care

• Journal of Family & Reproductive Health
  • The Economic Burden of Abortion and Its Complication Treatment Cares: A Systematic Review [2020]

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

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Termination of pregnancy [2019]

• Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Motivations for Abortion or Continuation of an Unwanted Pregnancy: A Scoping Review of the Global Literature [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • The economics of abortion and its links with stigma: A secondary analysis from a scoping review on the economics of abortion [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • Telemedicine for the provision of medication abortion to pregnant people at up to twelve weeks of pregnancy: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Measuring abortion-related mortality: challenges and opportunities [2015]

• Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Midwifery care for late termination of pregnancy: Integrative review [2023]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Women's experiences of facility-based abortion care: A WHO qualitative evidence synthesis [2025]

• Women's Health
  • Health providers' reasons for participating in abortion care: A scoping review [2024]

Iran

• PLoS ONE
  • Intentional abortion and its associated factors among female sex workers in Iran: Results from national bio-behavioral surveillance-2020 [2022]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Model of Care - Termination of Pregnancy Services [2023]
  • Investigation and Management of Complications of Early Termination of Pregnancy [2022]

Israel

• Ministry of Health Israel
  • Abortion Procedures

Ivory Coast

• PLoS ONE
  • Induced abortion incidence and safety in Côte d'Ivoire [2020]

Kenya

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

• Women's Health
  • Pregnancy termination and determinant factors among women of reproductive age in Kenya, evidence from Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey 2022: Multilevel analysis [2024]

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]

Latin America

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America [2021]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• BMJ Global Health
  • Abortion-related morbidity in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: findings of the WHO/HRP multi-country survey on abortion (MCS-A) [2021]

Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMJ Global Health
  • What’s needed to improve safety and quality of abortion care: reflections from WHO/HRP Multi-Country Study on Abortion across the sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and Caribbean regions [2021]

Low and middle income 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]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • The cost of post-abortion care (PAC): a systematic review [2022]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Assessing health systems' capacities to provide post-abortion care: insights from seven low- and middle-income countries [2025]

• Reproductive Health
  • Availability of medical abortion medicines in eight countries: a descriptive analysis of key findings and opportunities [2023]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Men’s involvement in women’s abortion-related care: a scoping review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries [2022]

Malawi

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

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Maternal Mortality from Induced Abortion in Malawi: What Does the Latest Evidence Suggest? [2021]

• 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]

Mexico

• BMC Public Health
  • Public hospital-based care for abortive events in Mexico: complication rates and socio-demographic factors, 2018-2022 [2025]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Standard for Abortion Counselling Aotearoa New Zealand [2022]
  • New Zealand Aotearoa Abortion Clinical Guideline [2021]
  • Abortion annual reports

Niger

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Postabortion care availability, readiness, and accessibility in Niger in 2022: results from linked facility-female cross-sectional data [2023]

Nigeria

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Trends in and predictors of pregnancy termination among 15–24 year-old women in Nigeria: a multi-level analysis of demographic and health surveys 2003–2018 [2020]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Inequities in the incidence and safety of abortion in Nigeria [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in misoprostol use and abortion complications: A cross-sectional study from nine referral hospitals in Nigeria [2018]

Norway

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

Pakistan

• BMJ Global Health
  • Abortion and unintended pregnancy in Pakistan: new evidence for 2023 and trends over the past decade [2025]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Postabortion Care in Pakistan: 2023 Assessment of the Health System’s Capacity to Provide Care [2024]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • An assessment of facility readiness for comprehensive abortion care in 12 districts of Pakistan using the WHO Service Availability and Readiness Assessment tool [2023]

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

Sierra Leone

• BMC Women's Health
  • Determinants of induced abortion among women of reproductive age: evidence from the 2013 and 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey [2023]

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]

Sri Lanka

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors associated with terminated pregnancies in Sri Lanka: A case study of the Sri Lankan Demographic and health survey (DHS) 2016 [2024]

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]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Understanding abortion-related complications in health facilities: results from WHO multicountry survey on abortion (MCS-A) across 11 sub-Saharan African countries [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Induced abortion in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Individual and contextual factors associated with abortion among reproductive age women in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from 24 recent demographic and health surveys [2024]

• Reproductive Health
  • A descriptive summary of the WHO availability assessments of medical abortion medicines in eight African countries [2024]

Sweden

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Contraceptive use among women seeking an early induced abortion in Sweden [2023]

• Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
  • Home use of mifepristone for medical abortion: a systematic review [2024]

Switzerland

• Scientific Reports
  • First trimester abortion protocols by facility type in Switzerland and potential barriers to accessing the service [2023]

Tanzania

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and determinants of pregnancy termination for childbearing women using the modified Poisson regression model: a cross-sectional study of the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) 2022 [2025]

• 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

• African Health Sciences
  • Application of a modified Poisson model in identifying factors associated with prevalence of pregnancy termination among women aged 15 - 49 years in Uganda [2022]

• 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: protocol for the release of personal data
  • Abortion statistics, England and Wales

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Abortion care [2025]
  • Abortion care (Quality standard) [2021]
  • Termination of pregnancy services

• NHS England
  • Abortion care [2025]
  • Provision of NHS termination of pregnancy centres for patients presenting with medical complexity and/or significant co-morbidities requiring NHS treatment [2021]

• Public Health Scotland
  • Termination of pregnancy statistics

• Reproductive Sciences
  • Feticide Before Termination of Pregnancy in Singleton Pregnancy - Trends in England and Wales 2012-2020, a Cross-sectional Study [2024]

• Right Decisions
  • Medical Termination of Pregnancy Protocol

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Best practice in telemedicine for abortion care [2022]
  • Best practice in post-abortion care [2022]
  • Best practice in abortion care [2022]
  • Clinical Guidelines for Early Medical Abortion at Home – England [2019]

• Scottish Government
  • Telemedicine early medical abortion at home: evaluation [2023]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Updated Mifepristone REMS Requirements [2023]
  • Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation: ACOG Practice Bulletin, Number 225 [2020]
  • Abortion Training and Education [2014]

• American Family Physician
  • Medical Methods for First-Trimester Abortion [2023]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Patient Acceptability of Telehealth Medication Abortion Care in the United States, 2021-2022: A Cohort Study [2024]
  • Population Group Abortion Rates and Lifetime Incidence of Abortion: United States, 2008-2014 [2022]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022 [2024]

• Contraception
  • Deception by obfuscation: Studnicki et al.'s retracted longitudinal cohort study of emergency room utilization following abortion [2024]
  • Characteristics of people obtaining medication vs procedural abortions in clinical settings in the United States: Findings from the 2021-2022 Abortion Patient Survey [2023]
  • Awareness of medication abortion among a nationally representative U.S. sample, 2021-2022 [2023]

• JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Mail-Order Pharmacy Dispensing of Mifepristone for Medication Abortion After In-Person Screening [2024]
  • Workforce Providing Abortion Care and Management of Pregnancy Loss in the US [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts [2025]
  • Prevalence of Self-Managed Abortion Among Women of Reproductive Age in the United States [2020]

• Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
  • Estimating the Period Prevalence of Publicly Funded Abortion to Space Live Births, 1999 to 2014 [2021]

• National Abortion Federation
  • Quality/Standards

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States [2018]

• Nature Medicine
  • Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the USA [2024]

• Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Abortion incidence and service availability in the United States, 2020 [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Access experiences and attitudes toward abortion among youth experiencing homelessness in the United States: A systematic review [2021]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist survey on abortion training and service provision [2021]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Prevention of infection after abortion and pregnancy loss [2025]
  • Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Management of hemorrhage at the time of abortion [2024]
  • Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Induction of fetal asystole before abortion Jointly developed with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine [2024]
  • Society of Family Planning Committee Statement: Abortion nomenclature [2023]
  • Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Medication abortion between 14 0/7 and 27 6/7 weeks of gestation: Jointly developed with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine [2023]
  • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: Pain control in surgical abortion part 2 - Moderate sedation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia [2021]
  • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: Management of individuals with bleeding or thrombotic disorders undergoing abortion [2021]
  • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: Cervical preparation for dilation and evacuation at 20-24 weeks' gestation [2020]
  • Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation [2020]
  • Society of Family Planning clinical guidelines: pain control in surgical abortion part 1 — local anesthesia and minimal sedation [2018]
  • 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]

• StatPearls
  • Misoprostol
  • Mifepristone

• Women's Health Issues
  • Interest in and Support for Alternative Models of Medication Abortion Provision Among Patients Seeking Abortion in the United States [2024]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care [2023]
  • WHO recommendations on self-care interventions: self-management of medical abortion, 2022 update [2022]
  • Abortion care guideline [2022]
  • Self-management of medical abortion [2020]
  • Preventing unsafe abortion: Evidence brief [2019]
  • Medical management of abortion [2018]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • Abortion: Fact sheet
  • Abortion (WHO Mortality Database)
  • Abortion

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• Reproductive Health
  • Access to mifepristone, misoprostol, and contraceptive medicines in eight countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: descriptive analyses of country-level assessments [2024]

WHO South-East Asia Region

• Reproductive Health
  • Strengthening regional commitment to ensuring access to medical abortion medicines in WHO's South-East Asia region: report of a participatory assessment and workshop [2024]

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Comprehensive abortion care – Teacher’s Manual for medical undergraduates [2024]
  • Second Trimester Abortion: Pocket Book for Health-Care Providers [2023]
  • Comprehensive Abortion Care: A Health Facility Assessment Tool [2023]
  • First Trimester Abortion - Pocket Book for Health Care Providers [2022]
  • Access to medical abortion medicines in the South-East Asia Region - a status report [2021]

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]

Zimbabwe

• BMJ Open
  • Severity and management of postabortion complications among women in Zimbabwe, 2016: a cross-sectional study [2018]

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