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Postpartum and postabortion contraception

Afghanistan

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Scaling-up post-pregnancy family planning services: experiences and challenges from Afghanistan [2023]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Integrating family planning into postpartum care through modern quality improvement: experience from Afghanistan [2014]

Australia

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Patterns in the provision of government-subsidised hormonal postpartum contraception in Queensland, Australia between 2012 and 2018: a population-based cohort study [2024]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • General practitioners' views and experiences of postpartum contraception counselling and provision: a qualitative-descriptive study [2024]

• Midwifery
  • An exploration of the contraceptive counselling practices of midwives who provide postpartum care in Australia [2024]

Bangladesh

• Journal of Global Health
  • Postpartum family planning counselling during maternity care visits in Bangladesh and its effect on contraceptive initiation [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Effects of maternal healthcare service utilization on modern postpartum family planning access in Bangladesh: insights from a National representative survey [2025]

Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo

• Open Access Journal of Contraception
  • Postpartum family-planning barriers and catalysts in Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo: a multiperspective study [2018]

Cambodia

• JMIR mHealth and uHealth
  • A Mobile Phone–Based Support Intervention to Increase Use of Postabortion Family Planning in Cambodia: Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation [2020]

• Reproductive Health
  • Mobile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF): the development of a mobile phone-based (mHealth) intervention to support post-abortion family planning (PAFP) in Cambodia [2016]

Cameroon

• Reproductive Health
  • Pregnancy risks and contraceptive use among postpartum mothers in Cameroon: implications for improving the coverage of postpartum family planning services [2023]

Canada

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Postpartum Contraception and Consent

China

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Characteristics and contraceptive practices among Chinese women seeking abortion: a multicentre, descriptive study from 2019 to 2021 [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Effectiveness of post-abortion care services to protect women's fertility in China: A systematic review with meta-analysis [2024]

Denmark

• JAMA Network Open
  • Postpartum Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Risk of Depression [2025]

• Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Postpartum hormonal contraceptive use in Denmark during 1997-2021 [2025]

East Africa

• Systematic Reviews
  • Post-abortion family planning use, method preference, and its determinant factors in Eastern Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Ethiopia

• BMJ Open
  • Does family planning counselling during health service contact improve postpartum modern contraceptive uptake in Ethiopia? A nationwide cross-sectional study [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Post-Abortion Contraceptive Utilization and Associated Factors in Ethiopia [2022]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Strengthening Postabortion Family Planning Services in Ethiopia: Expanding Contraceptive Choice and Improving Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2016]

• Heliyon
  • Uptake of postpartum modern family planning and its associated factors among postpartum women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors associated with modern contraceptives uptake during the first year after birth in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Postpartum modern contraception utilization and its determinants in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Reproductive Health
  • Utilization and its factors of post abortion modern contraceptive in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • Postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device use and its associated factors in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • The effect of maternal educational status, antenatal care and resumption of menses on postpartum contraceptive use in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Prevalence and predictors of post-abortion modern contraceptive utilization among reproductive age women in Ethiopia [2023]

Finland

• Contraception
  • Contraceptive plans and purchase after an induced abortion: A nationwide register study from Finland [2024]

Ghana

• BMC Public Health
  • Does the type of abortion provider influence contraceptive uptake after abortion? An analysis of longitudinal data from 64 health facilities in Ghana [2015]

• Global Public Health
  • Post-abortion contraception choices of women in Ghana: A one-year review [2015]

India

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
  • Postpartum IUCD: Rediscovering a Languishing Innovation [2015]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Post Abortion Family Planning [2016]
  • Postpartum IUCD Reference Manual [2010]

• PLoS ONE
  • Post-abortion contraceptive use among currently married women in India: New evidence from National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 (NFHS-5) [2025]
  • Examining the linkages between maternity services and postpartum modern contraceptive adoption among young women in India: Insights from the 2015-16 and 2019-21 National Family Health Survey [2023]
  • Role of maternal and child health services on the uptake of contraceptive use in India: A reproductive calendar approach [2022]

• Reproductive Health
  • The state of postpartum contraceptive use in India: descriptive lessons from nationally representative survey data [2025]
  • Contraceptive behavior of women in India after induced abortion [2024]
  • Understanding the healthcare provider role on post abortion contraception adoption in India using National Family Household Survey-5 [2023]

• Studies in Family Planning
  • Associations Between Abortion Services and Acceptance of Postabortion Contraception in Six Indian States [2015]

Indonesia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Levels, trends and correlates of unmet need for family planning among postpartum women in Indonesia: 2007–2015 [2017]

International

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Expulsion of intrauterine devices after postpartum placement by timing of placement, delivery type, and IUD type: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• BMC Women's Health
  • Implementation strategies, facilitators, and barriers to scaling up and sustaining post pregnancy family planning, a mixed-methods systematic review [2023]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Successful strategies that address gender-related barriers and promote bodily autonomy within efforts to scale up and sustain postpregnancy contraception: a scoping review [2025]

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Utilisation, effectiveness, and safety of immediate postpartum intrauterine device insertion: a systematic literature review [2023]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Immediate versus delayed postpartum insertion of contraceptive implant and IUD for contraception [2022]

• Contraception
  • Safety of the progesterone-releasing vaginal ring (PVR) among lactating women: A systematic review [2015]
  • Progestogen-only contraceptive use among breastfeeding women: a systematic review [2015]
  • Combined hormonal contraceptive use among breastfeeding women: an updated systematic review [2015]

• Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Expanding access to postpartum contraception [2024]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Postabortion Care: 20 Years of Strong Evidence on Emergency Treatment, Family Planning, and Other Programming Components [2016]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • FIGO position statement on postpartum intrauterine devices (PPIUD) [2025]
  • Post-Abortion Contraception, including Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives [2021]
  • The negative impact of COVID-19 on contraception and sexual and reproductive health: Could immediate postpartum LARCs be the solution? [2020]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Postpartum contraception: A matter of guidelines [2024]

• Ipas
  • Postabortion contraception: When and what type
  • Postabortion IUD use: Safety and timing

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and factors associated with early resumption of sexual intercourse among postpartum women: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

Ivory Coast, Nigeria

• Studies in Family Planning
  • Contraceptive Use Before and After Abortion: A Cross-Sectional Study from Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire [2022]

Kenya

• BMC Public Health
  • Missed opportunities for family planning counselling among postpartum women in eleven counties in Kenya [2022]

Liberia

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Successful Proof of Concept of Family Planning and Immunization Integration in Liberia [2015]

Low and middle income countries

• Contraception
  • Missed opportunities for family planning: an analysis of pregnancy risk and contraceptive method use among postpartum women in 21 low- and middle-income countries [2015]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Antenatal Care Interventions to Increase Contraceptive Use Following Birth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis [2024]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • mHealth interventions for postpartum family planning in LMICs: A realist review [2024]

• Reproductive Health
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of postpartum contraceptive use among women in low- and middle-income countries [2019]

Mexico

• BMJ Open
  • Comparison of immediate postpartum contraception among women with a high versus low risk pregnancy in Mexico: a retrospective cohort study [2021]

Nepal

• BioMed Research International
  • Unmet Need for Family Planning in Nepal during the First Two Years Postpartum [2014]

• JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association
  • Prevalence of Postpartum Family Planning Service Coverage in Selected Referral Facilities of Nepal [2020]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Integrating postpartum IUD counselling and insertion into routine maternity care in Nepal: Assessing trends over time [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Postabortion contraceptive use among women in Nepal: results from a longitudinal cohort study [2024]
  • Assessing knowledge, attitudes, and practice of health providers towards the provision of postpartum intrauterine devices in Nepal: a two-year follow-up [2021]
  • Prevalence and correlates of postabortion long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) use among young women (24 and below) in Nepal: Strategy in the search for improvements [2019]

New Zealand

• New Zealand College of Midwives
  • Consensus Statement: Long Acting Reversible Contraception [2018]

Pakistan

• Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
  • Acceptability, continuation and complication rate of postpartum insertion of intrauterine contraceptive device among Pakistani women [2023]

Republic of Guinea

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Findings and Lessons Learned From Strengthening the Provision of Voluntary Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives With Postabortion Care in Guinea [2019]

South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Global Public Health
  • What contraception do women use after abortion? An analysis of 319,385 cases from eight countries [2018]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Global Health Action
  • Patterns and trends of postpartum family planning in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria: evidence of missed opportunities for integration [2015]

• International Journal of Reproductive Medicine
  • Postpartum Family Planning Use and Its Determinants among Women of the Reproductive Age Group in Low-Income Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - PMC [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Postpartum long-acting reversible contraceptives use in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence from recent demographic and health surveys data [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • The unmet needs for modern family planning methods among postpartum women in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature [2021]

• Systematic Reviews
  • Post-abortion family planning use and its determinants among women who received abortion care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• Women's Health
  • Determinants of early resumption of postpartum sexual intercourse in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Women's Health Reports
  • Intention to Use Postpartum Contraceptive and Its Determinants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]

Sweden

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Provision of long-acting reversible contraception at surgical abortion-A cross-sectional nationwide register study [2022]

• Contraception
  • Adherence to Swedish national recommendations for long acting reversible contraceptive provision at the time of medical abortion [2021]

Tanzania

• PLoS ONE
  • Initiation of postpartum modern contraceptive methods: Evidence from Tanzania demographic and health survey [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • A one-year cohort study of complications, continuation, and failure rates of postpartum TCu380A in Tanzania [2020]

Togo

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Improving the Quality of Postabortion Care Services in Togo Increased Uptake of Contraception [2016]

Turkey

• Journal of Transcultural Nursing
  • Women's Attitudes toward Family Planning in the Postpartum Period and Affecting Factors: Turkiye Sample [2025]

United Kingdom

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Contraception After Pregnancy

• Right Decisions
  • Postpartum contraception

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Best practice in post-abortion contraception [2022]

• Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
  • Improving Access to and Quality of Postpartum Contraception Provision [2022]

• WISDOM
  • Post natal Contraception Guideline [2020]

United States

• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
  • ABM Clinical Protocol #13: Contraception During Breastfeeding, Revised 2015 [2015]

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Contraception and sterilization selection at delivery among pregnant patients with malignancy [2024]

• Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
  • Buprenorphine and postpartum contraception utilization among people with opioid use disorder: a multi-state analysis [2025]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Access to Postabortion Contraception [2021]
  • Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2016]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Postabortion Contraception: Emerging Opportunities and Barriers [2017]

• JAMA Health Forum
  • Medicaid Policy Change and Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2024]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Postpartum Contraceptive Use Among US Medicaid Recipients [2022]
  • Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use Following State-Specific Changes in Hospital Medicaid Reimbursement [2022]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • National Postpartum Permanent Contraception Practices and Perceived Barriers [2024]
  • Contraception After Delivery and Short Interpregnancy Intervals Among Women in the United States [2015]

• Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Delivery at Catholic hospitals and postpartum contraception use, five US states, 2015-2018 [2022]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Consult Series #48: Immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception for women at high risk for medical complications [2019]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: contraception after surgical abortion [2019]
  • Society of Family Planning Guidelines: Postplacental insertion of intrauterine devices [2018]

West and Central Africa

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Increasing Use of Postpartum Family Planning and the Postpartum IUD: Early Experiences in West and Central Africa [2016]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience - Postpartum contraception [2022]
  • Self-management approaches for post-abortion contraception: Recommendations 51-54 (3.6.3) [2022]
  • Post-abortion contraception: Recommendations 41-47 (3.5.4) [2022]
  • Family Planning in Postabortion Care [2022]
  • Introducing the World Health Organization Postpartum Family Planning Compendium [2016]
  • It’s about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning [2014]
  • Programming strategies for postpartum family planning [2013]
  • Technical consultation on hormonal contraceptive use during lactation and effects on the newborn : summary report, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October 2008 [2010]
  • Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate [2009]
  • Postpartum Family Planning Compendium

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Postpartum (puerperium)
  • Long-acting reversible contraception
  • Intrauterine device (IUD)
  • Induced abortion
  • Family planning, contraception