Technical and clinical guidance
Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems (WHO, 2012)
This publication provides the latest evidence-based guidance on clinical care. It includes information on how to establish and strengthen services, and outlines a human-rights-based approach to laws and policies on safe, comprehensive abortion care.
Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion (WHO, 2014)
This reference should be useful to a range of providers in different settings and varying legal and health service contexts; it is oriented to providers who already have the requisite skills and training necessary to provide safe abortion and/or treat complications of unsafe abortion.
Medical Management of Abortion (WHO, 2019)
These guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for healthcare workers to help ensure high-quality healthcare for those seeking a medical abortion.
Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception
This guideline provides a range of options for expanding health worker roles in the provision of safe abortion care, the management of complications of abortion (also known as post-abortion care in some settings and provided as part of emergency obstetric care) and for post-abortion contraception provision.
Best practice in comprehensive abortion care
This Best Practice Paper sets out the essential elements of a high-quality abortion care service including comprehensive post-abortion care and contraception, and it includes recommendations to assist policy makers in moving their services forward.
WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health (WHO, 2019)
This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on key public health self-care interventions, including for SRHR. The guideline reiterates existing recommendations on self-management of medical abortion.
Clinical updates in reproductive health
These Clinical Updates in Reproductive Health contain concise, up-to-date, evidence-based clinical recommendations on comprehensive abortion care, with new topics and resources added regularly.
Best practice guidance on safe abortion
This website (SafeAccess Hub) provides a collection of evidence-based best practice guides for those working on safe abortion programmes.