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- Background and context (1.1)
- Guideline objective, rationale, target audience, inclusivity and structure (1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4)
- An enabling environment for comprehensive abortion care (1.3)
- Human rights including a supportive framework of law and policy (1.3.1)
- Availability and accessibility of information (1.3.2)
- Health system factors (1.3.3)
- Health system considerations (1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5)
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- Background (3.1, 3.1.1)
- Underlying principles and assumptions relating to recommendations on health worker roles (3.1.2)
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- Law & policy Recommendation 6: Mandatory waiting periods (3.3.1)
- Law & policy Recommendation 7: Third-party authorization (3.3.2)
- Clinical services Recommendation 8: Rh isoimmunization for abortion at gestational ages < 12 weeks (3.3.3)
- Clinical services Recommendation 9: Antibiotic prophylaxis for surgical and medical abortion (3.3.4)
- Clinical services Recommendation 10: Pre-abortion ultrasound scanning (3.3.5)
- Clinical services Recommendations 11–14: Pain management for surgical abortion and for prior cervical priming (3.3.6)
- Clinical services Recommendations 15 and 16: Pain management for medical abortion (3.3.6)
- Cervical priming prior to surgical abortion: Recommendations 17-20 (3.3.7)
- Law & policy Recommendation 21: Provider restrictions (3.3.8)
- Law & policy Recommendation 22: Conscientious objection (3.3.9)
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- Clinical services Recommendation 34: Follow-up care or additional services after abortion (3.5.1)
- Incomplete abortion management: Recommendations 35-38 (3.5.2)
- Management of non-life-threatening complications: infection and haemorrhage: Recommendations 39-40 (3.5.3)
- Post-abortion contraception: Recommendations 41-47 (3.5.4)
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- Supported service-delivery approaches: Recommendation 48 (Telemedicine) and Best Practice Statement 49 (3.6.1)
- Self-management Recommendation 50: Self-management of medical abortion in whole or in part at gestational ages < 12 weeks (3.6.2)
- Self-management approaches for post-abortion contraception: Recommendations 51-54 (3.6.3)
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- Annex 1: External experts and WHO staff involved in guideline development
- Annex 2: Selected human rights treaties and their treaty monitoring bodies
- Annex 3: References for the glossary
- Annex 4: Guideline development methods and process
- Annex 5: Health worker categories and roles
- Annex 6: Monitoring and evaluation of quality abortion care: identification of indicators
- Annex 7: Systematic reviews and links to PICOs and recommendations
- Annex 8: Law and policy domain PICO questions
- Annex 9: Clinical services domain PICO questions
- Annex 10: Service delivery domain PICO questions
- Annex 11: Details about guideline dissemination and updating
- Annex 12: Acknowledgements
- References