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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Postabortion Care

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' and programs 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)

Youssef, Hala, Nahla Abdel-Tawab, John Bratt, Ton van der Velden, and Mohamed Abou-Gabal. “Linking family planning with postabortion services in Egypt: Testing the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of two models of integration,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2006
"Programmatic update: Linking family planning with postabortion services in Egypt: Testing two models of integration," PAC in Action 10: 8, November. (PDF)

Westley, Elizabeth and Laura Raney. "Emergency contraception: A necessary component of postabortion family planning services," PAC in Action 10: 1–2, November. (PDF)

Youssef, Hala, Nahla Abdel-Tawab, Ton van der Velden, and Mohamed A. Gabal. "Linking family planning with postabortion services in Egypt: Is it feasible to offer family planning counseling on the ward?" FRONTIERS Research Update no. 10. Cairo: Population Council. (requests for this publication may be sent to pcouncil@pccairo.org)

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

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)

Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium. "Youth-friendly PAC: Meeting the needs of young PAC clients," PAC in Action newsletter, November. (PDF)

"Postabortion family planning benefits clients and providers," Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Technical Brief. Washington, DC: US Agency for International Development. (PDF)

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

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

Postabortion Care (PAC) Initiative for Francophone Africa Committee. "Issues in postabortion care: Scaling-up services in Francophone Africa." Washington, DC: USAID/AFR/SD and SARA/AED. (PDF)

"Russia: Postabortion family planning counseling and services lead to increased contraceptive use," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 44. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

"Senegal: Expand access to safe postabortion care services in rural areas," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 43. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Unwanted Pregnancy and Postabortion Complications in Pakistan: Findings from a National Study." Islamabad: Population Council. (PDF)

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)

EngenderHealth. “Taking postabortion care services where they are needed: An operations research project testing PAC expansion in rural Senegal,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Savelieva, Irina, John M. Pile,  Inna Sacci, and Rathan Loganathan. “Postabortion family planning operations research study in Perm, Russia,”  FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2002
Benson, Janie and Victor Huapaya. “Sustainability of postabortion care in Peru,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)   

Blanchard, Kelly, Shelley Clark, Beverly Winikoff, Gayle Gaines, Ghazala Kabani, and Caitlin Shannon. “Misoprostol for women’s health: A review,” Obstetrics and Gynecology 99(2): 316–332. (abstract)

Clark, Shelley, Jennifer Blum, Kelly Blanchard, Loren Galvão, Horace Fletcher, and Beverly Winikoff. “Misoprostol use in obstetrics and gynecology in Brazil, Jamaica, and the United States,” International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 76(1): 65–74.*

Langer, Ana, Angela Heimburger, Cecilia García-Barrios, and Beverly Winikoff. “Improving postabortion care in a public hospital in Mexico,” in Nicole Haberland and Diana Measham (eds.), Responding to Cairo: Case Studies of Changing Practice in Reproductive Health and Family Planning. New York: Population Council, pp. 236–256. (additional information)

2001
“Honduras: Postpartum and postabortion patients want family planning,” FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 25. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

Medina, Ruth, Ricardo Vernon, Irma Mendoza, and Claudia Aguilar. "Expansion of postpartum/postabortion contraception in Honduras," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2000
"Burkina Faso: Upgrading postabortion care benefits clients and providers," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 3. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Egypt: Expand access to postabortion care," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 12. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Kenya: Offer family planning in hospital wards," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 5. :Population Council. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Meeting women's health care needs after abortion," FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 1. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

"Senegal: Train more providers in postabortion care," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 4. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

1999
Huntington, Dale and Nancy J. Piet-Pelon (eds.). Postabortion Care: Lessons Learned from Operations Research. (PDF) (to order, contact publications@popcouncil.org)

1998
Abdel-Tawab, Nahla, Dale Huntington, Ezzeldin O. Hassan, Hala Youssef, and Laila Nawar. "Counseling the husbands of postabortion patients in Egypt: Effects on husband involvement, patient recovery and contraceptive use," Cairo: Population Council and Egyptian Fertility Care Society. (PDF in Arabic)

Huntington, Dale (ed.). Advances and Challenges in Postabortion Care Operations Research: Summary Report of a Global Meeting. New York: Population Council  (PDF)

"Postabortion care: A reproductive health priority," Population Council Annual Report 1998. New York: Population Council.

1997
"Improving the counseling and medical care of postabortion patients in Egypt," Research Summaries. Cairo: Population Council and Egyptian Fertility Care Society. (PDF in Arabic)

Nawar, Laila, Dale Huntington, Ezzeldin Osman Hassan, Hala Youssef, and Nahla Abdel-Tawab. "Scaling-up improved postabortion care in Egypt: Introduction to university and Ministry of Health and population hospitals," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Final Report. Cairo: Population Council. (PDF) (PDF in Arabic)

"Postabortion case load study in Egyptian public sector hospitals," Research Summaries. Cairo: Population Council and Egyptian Fertility Care Society. (PDF in Arabic)

* Not available from the Population Council.



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31 October 2007