Worldwide 75 million women need postabortion care (PAC) services each year following
safe or unsafe induced abortions and miscarriages. We reviewed more than 550 studies on …

Each year, an estimated 210 million women become pregnant. Worldwide, more than one
fourth of these pregnancies will end in abortion or an unplanned birth. While many abortions …

Complications from spontaneous abortions and unsafely induced abortions pose a serious
global threat to women's health and lives. An estimated 46 million induced abortions are …

METHODS: Between April 1997 andAugust 1998, women treated for abortion complications
in six Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) hospitals in the Mexico City metropolitan …

Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality and morbidity in Latin
America. Postabortion care (PAC) using preferred technologies and a woman-centred …

Forty per cent of the world's women are living in countries with restrictive abortion laws,
which prohibit abortion or only allow abortion to protect a woman's life or her physical or …

Background Health systems could obtain substantial cost savings by providing safe abortion
care rather than providing expensive treatment for complications of unsafely performed …

Context: Despite international calls to recognize unsafe abortion as a serious health
problem in developing countries, very little quantitative information exists on national levels …

This report analyzes the results of an operations research project carried out at two sites in
Egypt to improve the medical care and counseling of postabortion patients. Preintervention …

These recommendations present an evidence-based assessment of provision of
contraceptives at the time of surgical abortion. Most methods of contraception, including the …