Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)
May 17, 2024 · 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.
Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec 3, 2024 · 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)
Mar 8, 2022 · 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: Safety - World Health Organization (WHO)
Sep 24, 2020 · 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.
Ask the expert: 10 questions on safe abortion care
Sep 26, 2022 · 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.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH)
Life-threatening complications that may result from unsafe abortion include haemorrhage, infection, and injury to the genital tract and internal organs. In addition to the deaths and disabilities caused by unsafe abortion, there are major social and financial costs to women, families, communities and health systems.
WHO issues new guidelines on abortion to help countries deliver ...
Mar 9, 2022 · 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 …
New mobile phone app helps healthcare workers provide …
Aug 7, 2023 · This app takes the individual characteristics of patients and generates patient-specific assessments or recommendations, which can then be given to healthcare providers to consider. The tool guides the healthcare worker through assessing abortion-seekers for possible risks, and also gives them checklists and further context to help them in managing cases. It …
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.
Widening access to quality abortion care from the grassroots up
In a series of captivating stories, the World Health Organization together with IBP Network highlights some important key players in this abortion care movement: local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs). In many parts of the world, these organizations are successfully translating WHO’s research and evidence-based …