Preventing unsafe abortion

PUBLICATIONS

Clinical guides

• Packages of interventions
  Family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
  4 August 2010
• Frequently asked clinical questions about medical abortion
  31 December 2007
• Complications of abortion
  Technical and managerial guidelines for prevention and treatment
  31 December 1995
• Clinical management of abortion complications: a practical guide
  31 December 1994

Evidence and research

• What health-care providers say on providing abortion care in Cape Town, South Africa: findings from a qualitative study
  Social science research policy brief
  20 September 2010
• Mid-level health-care providers are a safe alternative to doctors for first-trimester abortions in developing countries
  Social science research policy brief
  31 December 2008
• Frequently asked clinical questions about medical abortion
  31 December 2007
• The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes
  31 December 2004
• Studying unsafe abortion: a practical guide
  31 December 1996

Monitoring and evaluation

• Facts on induced abortion worldwide
  Fact sheet
  11 January 2012
• Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2008
  Sixth edition
  21 March 2011
• Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003
  Fifth edition
  31 December 2007
• Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2000
  Fourth edition
  31 December 2004
• Studying unsafe abortion: a practical guide
  31 December 1996

Policy and programmatic issues

• Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems
  Second edition
  16 May 2012
• What health-care providers say on providing abortion care in Cape Town, South Africa: findings from a qualitative study
  Social science research policy brief
  20 September 2010
• Mid-level health-care providers are a safe alternative to doctors for first-trimester abortions in developing countries
  Social science research policy brief
  31 December 2008
• The WHO Strategic Approach to strengthening sexual and reproductive health policies and programmes
  19 September 2007
• Preventing unsafe abortion and its consequences - Priorities for Research and Action
  31 December 2006
• Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic
  The Lancet sexual & reproductive health series
  25 November 2006
• The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes
  31 December 2004
• Abortion and contraception in Romania: a strategic assessment of policy, programme and research issues
  31 December 2004
• Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems
  31 December 2003
• Abortion in Viet Nam: An assessment of policy, programme and research issues
  31 December 1999
• Post-abortion family planning: a practical guide for programme managers
  31 December 1997

Work in the area of prevention of unsafe abortion is done exclusively within the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP).