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Africa

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • WHO African Region's Countries Abortion Health Profiles [2020]

Australia

• Department of Health Northern Territory Government
  • Northern Territory Clinical Guidelines for Termination of Pregnancy [2019]

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Using telehealth to provide early medical abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: a consensus statement [2020]
  • Nurse and midwife-led provision of mifepristone and misoprostol for the purposes of early medical abortion: a consensus statement [2020]
  • Evidence-based practice and policy recommendations regarding early medical abortion: a consensus statement [2020]
  • A consensus statement on publicly funded abortion service provision: a duty of care [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
  • Therapeutic termination of pregnancy
  • Termination of pregnancy

• SA Health
  • Termination of pregnancy

• WA Health, Government of Western Australia
  • Reports on induced abortions in Western Australia

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 mifepristone for medical termination of pregnancy [2016]
  • Termination of pregnancy [2016]
  • Late termination of pregnancy [2016]

Canada

• Alberta Health Services
  • Termination of Pregnancy [2017]

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Routine Pathology for Intrauterine Devices and Therapeutic Abortion: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • 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]

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

• Statistics Canada
  • Abortion

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]

Côte d'Ivoire

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

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]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Abortion Access and Safety with COVID-19 [2020]
  • FIGO Committee Statement: Ethical responsibilities in post-abortion care [2019]

• International Planned Parenthood Federation
  • IMAP statement on medical abortion [2018]

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

• 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]

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

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]

Nigeria

• 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 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]

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

• 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

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • RCOG and FSRH statement on women in England being able to take misoprostol at home [2018]

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

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

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and abortion care [2020]
  • Clinical Guidelines for Early Medical Abortion at Home [2019]
  • 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 College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation [2020]
  • Abortion Training and Education [2014]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2018 [2020]
  • Abortion | Data and Statistics

• 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]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • 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]
  • Vacuum aspiration for induced abortion in the first trimester [2015]
  • 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]
  • Managing incomplete abortion [2008]
  • 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]
  • Unsafe abortion
  • Preventing unsafe abortion: Fact sheet
  • 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]

Zimbabwe

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

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