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) Medical management of abortion Medical management of abortion: pocket guide Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care Web annexes A Key international human rights standards on abortion B Technical meetings during guideline development
Ask the expert: 10 questions on safe abortion care In July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a Twitter space with Dr Bela Ganatra, head of the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion unit in the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), including HRP, on improving access to comprehensive abortion care everywhere
WHO issues new guidelines on abortion to help countries deliver . . . Alongside the clinical and service delivery recommendations, the guidelines recommend removing medically unnecessary policy barriers to safe abortion, such as criminalization, mandatory waiting times, the requirement that approval must be given by other people (e g , partners or family members) or institutions, and limits on when during pregnancy an abortion can take place Such barriers can
WHO releases new guidelines on safe abortion WHO has released new guidelines on abortion care in a bid to protect the health of women and girls and help prevent over 25 million unsafe abortions that currently occur each year around the world Based on the latest scientific evidence, these consolidated guidelines bring together over 50 recommendations spanning clinical practice, health service delivery, and legal and policy interventions
Abortion: Safety - World Health Organization (WHO) In addition to non-specialist and specialist doctors, a wide range of health worker cadres – such as auxiliary nurses, auxiliary nurse midwives, nurses, midwives, associate advanced associate clinicians, pharmacists and doctors of complementary medicine – can provide various aspects of medical abortion services
Aborto - World Health Organization (WHO) The macroeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the costs and outcomes PLoS One 2021 May 6;16(5):e0250692 doi: 10 1371 journal pone 0250692 PMID: 33956826; PMCID: PMC8101771 8 Vlassoff et al Economic impact of unsafe abortion-related morbidity and mortality: evidence and estimation challenges
From guidelines to implementation: increasing access to quality . . . However, surgical abortion needs to remain an option, not only for post-abortion and second-trimester care, but also for when it is a woman’s preference MSI's global strategy focuses on strengthening the recruitment, training and retention of abortion providers This approach includes screening to recruit only pro-choice providers and
Ensuring healthy outcomes: Access to quality abortion care for the . . . Access to the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, is a core human right The ability to decide if and when to have children, and access to safe, timely, respectful and person-centred abortion care, and post-abortion care, when needed, helps to safeguard the health and well-being of women, girls, their families and their communities The World Health
Abortion rate estimate - World Health Organization (WHO) Model-estimated abortion rates were sorted within Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) regions, annually per 1000 women aged 15–49 years in 2015–2019, with 80% and 95% uncertainty intervals Northern America is an SDG region and contrasts with North America, with Mexico in Latin America and the Caribbean