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Induced abortion

 

Africa

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

Australia

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

• O&G Magazine
  • The tyranny of distance for Australian women seeking abortion [2018]
  • Mid-trimester surgical abortion [2018]
  • Feticide and late termination of pregnancy [2018]

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Termination of pregnancy

Australia, New Zealand

• O&G Magazine
  • Early medical abortion: reflections on current practice [2018]

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The use of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynaecology [2021]
  • The use of mifepristone for medical abortion [2019]

Bangladesh

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

Brazil

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

Burkina Faso

• 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]

Canada

• 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]

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

• 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]

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]

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]

Estonia

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

Ethiopia

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

• 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

• 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]

India

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

International

• BMJ Global Health
  • 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]

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

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • 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]

• 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]

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

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
  • Investigation and Management of Complications of Early Termination of Pregnancy [2022]

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]

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]

• 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]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • New Zealand Aotearoa Abortion Clinical Guideline [2021]

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

• 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 South-East Asia Region
  • 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]

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]

Switzerland

• Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Overlapping borders: limit of viability and late terminations of pregnancy – a retrospective multicentre observational study [2020]

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

• 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: protocols on disclosing personal data
  • Abortion statistics, England and Wales

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Abortion care (Quality standard) [2021]
  • Abortion care [2019]
  • Termination of pregnancy services

• NHS England
  • 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
  • Termination of Pregnancy in Scotland - Datasets
  • COVID-19 Wider Impacts – Termination of Pregnancy

• 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]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Updated Mifepristone REMS Requirements [2023]
  • Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation [2020]
  • Abortion Training and Education [2014]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2020 [2022]

• JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Workforce Providing Abortion Care and Management of Pregnancy Loss in the US [2022]

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

• 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 Committee Statement: Abortion nomenclature [2023]
  • 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]
  • 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]

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

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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