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Bookmark or Share- New clinical handbook launched to support quality abortion careClinical services relating to abortion include not only the procedure itself, but also the provision of information and counselling, pain management and post-abortion care, including contraception. In line with WHO’s updated recommendations, the Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care additionally provides expanded guidance on how health workers can support self-management ...
- Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)Abortion regulations that force people to travel to attain legal care, or that require mandatory counselling or waiting periods, burden health systems and can result in women experiencing travel costs, loss of income or the need to resort to unsafe abortion.
- Abortion care guideline - World Health Organization (WHO)Abortion care guideline: executive summary (incl. Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish) Medical management of abortion (summary chart of recommendations) Medical management of abortion (Pocket guide of recommendations) Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief
- Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)Abortion is a simple health care intervention that can be safely and effectively managed by a wide range of health workers using medication or a surgical procedure. In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a medical abortion can also be safely self-managed by the pregnant person outside of a health care facility (e.g. at home), in whole or in part.
- First ever country level estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortionThe Guttmacher Institute, the World Heath Organization and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) today released the first-ever model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates for 150 countries, highlighting major disparities in access to sexual and reproductive health care. The new estimates indicate that unintended pregnancy and abortion rates vary widely between ...
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