Background The WHO estimates that 13% of maternal mortality is due to unsafe abortion,
but challenges with measurement and data quality persist. To our knowledge, no systematic …

BACKGROUND: The 1990–2008 estimates for the maternal mortality associated with unsafe
abortion require a re-examination. OBJECTIVE: To provide the latest estimates of the …

Objective This review aims to provide the latest global and regional estimates of the
incidence and trends in induced abortion, both safe and unsafe. A related objective is to …

Until recently, WHO operationally defined unsafe abortion as illegal abortion. In the past
decade, however, the incidence of abortion by misoprostol administration has increased in …

Two recent efforts to quantify the causes of maternal deaths on a global scale generated
divergent estimates of abortion-related mortality. Such discrepancies in estimates of abortion …

This sixth edition of the WHO Global and regional estimates of unsafe abortion and
associated mortality is intended for policy-makers and programme managers, health …

This study measured the contribution of abortion-related deaths to overall maternal mortality
and calculated the underestimation of maternal mortality using verbal autopsy and clinical …

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new report in March documenting that the
number of women dying from unsafe abortions worldwide has declined significantly over the …

In countries where induced abortion is legally restricted, as in most of Latin America,
evaluation of statistics related to induced abortions and abortion-related mortality is …

OBJECTIVE: To examine characteristics and causes of legal induced abortion–related
deaths in the United States between 1998 and 2010. METHODS: Abortion-related deaths …