FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
on Postabortion Care

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2007
Billings, Deborah L. and Ricardo Vernon (eds.). Avances en la atención postaborto en América Latina y el Caribe: Investigando, aplicando y expandiendo [Progress of postabortion care in Latin America and the Caribbean: Researching, applying, and expanding]. México, D.F.: Population Council and Ipas. (PDF, 903 KB) (more)

2006
Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium. "Postabortion family planning," PAC in Action newsletter, November. (PDF)

Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium. "Misoprostol in the PAC context," PAC in Action newsletter, May. (PDF)

2005
Foreit, James R. "Postabortion family planning benefits clients and providers," FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 4. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 560 KB)

Gonzáles, Fernando and Máriel Loayza. “Operations research to improve postabortion care (PAC) services in three public hospitals, Bolivia,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 270 KB)

2004
Brambila, Carlos.  "Developing a supervision instrument for postabortion care in Guatemala, Bolivia, and Mexico," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1009 KB)

"Peru: Leadership facilitates sustainability of postabortion care services," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 42. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

2003
Billings, Deborah L., Eliana del Pozo, and Hugo Arévalo. "Testing a model for the delivery of emergency obstetric care and family planning services in the Bolivian public health system," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council.
(PDF, 1.1 MB)

2002
Benson, Janie and Victor Huayapa. "Sustainability of postabortion care in Peru," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 685 KB)

2001
Medina, Ruth, Ricardo Vernon, Irma Mendoza, and Claudia Aguilar. "Expansion of postpartum and postabortion contraception in Honduras," FRONTIERS Final Report. (PDF, 637 KB)

"Honduras: Postpartum and postabortion patients want family planning," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 25. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 272 KB)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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