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Abortion is a common health intervention. It is very safe when carried out using a method recommended by WHO, appropriate to the pregnancy duration and by someone with the necessary skills. However, around 45% of abortions are unsafe. Unsafe abortion is an important preventable cause of maternal deaths and morbidities.
Abortion. WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 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 ...
Abortion, using the recommended methods, is a very safe procedure. It can happen as an outpatient procedure, or it can be done with medications or tablets. These tablets, Misoprostol and Mifepristone, are actually on the WHO’s core essential medicine list. When these tablets became known as a way to induce abortion decades ago, the medical ...
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 ...
Unsafe abortions can be prevented through: Comprehensive sexuality education. Prevention of unintended pregnancy through use of effective contraception, including emergency contraception. Provision of legal safe abortion. A safe abortion is an abortion carried out with a method that is recommended by WHO and that is appropriate to the pregnancy ...
Overview. Abortions are safe if they are done with a method recommended by WHO that is appropriate to the pregnancy duration and if the person providing or supporting the abortion is trained. Such abortions can be done using tablets (medical abortion) or a simple outpatient procedure. Unsafe abortion occurs when a pregnancy is terminated either ...
Français. Русский. Español. The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidelines on abortion care today, in a bid to protect the health of women and girls and help prevent over 25 million unsafe abortions that currently occur each year. “Being able to obtain safe abortion is a crucial part of health care,” said Craig ...
Principaux faits. L’avortement est une intervention sanitaire courante. Elle est sans risque lorsqu’elle est pratiquée selon une méthode recommandée par l’OMS, adaptée à la durée de la grossesse et quand la personne pratiquant l’avortement a les compétences nécessaires. Environ 45 % de l’ensemble des avortements sont non ...
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 ...
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 ...