Abortion care guideline
8 March 2022
| 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)
- Medical management of abortion (2018)
Other language versions
Related links
- Abortion care guideline (digital version)
- Abortion care guideline (resource kit)
- 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
- Clinical practice handbook for quality abortion care
Web annexes
- A. Key international human rights standards on abortion
- B. Technical meetings during guideline development
Supplementary materials
WHO Team
Guidelines Review Committee,
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH)
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
230
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978 92 4 003948 3
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