abort operation - Health Topics
Making health for all a reality, and moving towards the progressive realization of human rights, requires that all individuals have access to quality health care, including comprehensive abortion care services – which includes information, management of abortion, and post-abortion care. Lack of access to safe, timely, affordable and respectful abortion care poses a risk to not only the ... In this guideline, recommendations are presented across three domains that are essential to the provision of abortion care: Law and policy, Clinical services and Service delivery.
Understanding the Context
Evidence has demonstrated that in gestational ages less than 12 weeks, pregnant persons can safely and effectively manage their own medical abortions using mifepristone and misoprostol in combination or misoprostol alone. Enabling this option can significantly improve access to safe, timely, affordable and person-centred abortion care. Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter. Four major hospitals in Gaza (Kamal Adwan Hospital, Indonesia Hospital, Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics, and European Gaza Hospital) have had to suspend medical ...