Abortion care guideline
Overview
The objective of this guideline is to present the complete set of all WHO recommendations and best practice statements relating to abortion. While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in this document aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to quality abortion care.
This guideline updates and replaces the recommendations in the following previous WHO guidelines:
- Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems, second edition (2012)
- Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception (previously known as the “task sharing” guidance) (2015), and
- Medical management of abortion (2018)
Resource Kit (31 pages)
Summary chart of recommendations on medical management of abortion
Pocket guide of recommendations on medical management of abortion
Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief (11 pages)
Supplementary materials and web annexes
Web annex A. Key international human rights standards on abortion
Web annex B. Technical meetings during guideline development
Supplementary material 1. Evidence-to-Decision frameworks for the law and policy recommendations
Supplementary material 2. Evidence-to-Decision frameworks for the clinical service recommendations
Supplementary material 3. Evidence-to-Decision frameworks for the service delivery recommendations and best practice statements
Other language version
Executive summary
Abortion care guideline: executive summary (Includes access to the Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish versions of the executive summary)
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