Implementing comprehensive abortion care in emergencies: guidance, tools and field-based examples

Overview

The objective of this guidance is to provide front-line SRH and gender-based violence (GBV) service providers, programme managers and coordinators working in humanitarian settings with information and tools to support the provision of high-quality comprehensive abortion care in emergencies services. The document summarizes key elements of existing comprehensive abortion care guidelines with the aim of overcoming the “know-do gap” and supporting humanitarian actors to address morbidity and mortality due to complications of unsafe abortion and lack of access to safe abortion care services.

This document was developed by the SRH-Task Team (SRH-TT) of the Global Health Cluster and informed by consultations with SRH and GBV actors at the global, regional and national levels. Some specific information and sources are anonymous at the request of the key informants due to the sensitive nature of this topic.