- Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)
Making health for all a reality, and moving towards the progressive realization of human rights, requires that all individuals have access to quality health care, including comprehensive abortion care services – which includes information, management of abortion, and post-abortion care Lack of access to safe, timely, affordable and respectful abortion care poses a risk to not only the
- Abortion care guideline - World Health Organization (WHO)
In this guideline, recommendations are presented across three domains that are essential to the provision of abortion care: Law and policy, Clinical services and Service delivery
- Abortion: Safety - World Health Organization (WHO)
Can medical abortion be self-managed by the client herself? When using the combination mifepristone and misoprostol regimen, the medical abortion process can be self-managed for pregnancies up to 12 weeks of gestation, including the ability to take the medications at home, without direct supervision of a health-care provider
- 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
- 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
- Aborto - World Health Organization (WHO)
El aborto peligroso se produce cuando una persona carente de la capacitación necesaria pone fin a un embarazo, o ello se hace en un entorno que no cumple las normas médicas mínimas, o cuando se combinan ambas circunstancias
- 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
- From guidelines to implementation: increasing access to quality . . .
The International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) is working with national professional societies of obstetrics and gynaecology to improve access to self-managed abortion Despite legal provisions for abortion in Zambia, rates of unsafe abortion remain high
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