Eliminating unsafe abortion will require multisectoral actions that create and strengthen
enabling legal and policy environments for safe abortion and for the implementation of …

Research shows that women, healthcare providers, and even policy makers worldwide have
limited or inaccurate knowledge of the abortion law and policies in their country. These …

Abstract Background The Global Abortion Policies Database (GAPD), launched in June
2017, provides a verifiable, comprehensive, nuanced approach to information and data …

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance
for health systems states that regulatory, policy, and programmatic barriers that hinder …

Background Texts and interpretations on the lawfulness of abortion and associated
administrative requirements can be vague and confusing. It can also be difficult for a woman …

Although unsafe abortion remains a serious public health issue in many countries, access to
safe abortion care is increasing in parts of the developing world where it was once available …

Along with governments from around the world, African leaders agreed at the International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 to address unsafe abortion as …

Background Global mechanisms have been established to monitor and facilitate state
accountability regarding the legal status of abortion. However, there is little evidence …

We discuss the history of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) development of
guidelines for governments on providing safe abortion services, which WHO published as …

Consensus is lacking on the most appropriate indicators to document progress in safe
abortion at programmatic and country level. We conducted a scoping review to provide an …