| AN |
auxiliary nurse |
| ANM |
auxiliary nurse midwife |
| CEDAW |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CESCR |
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| CRVS |
civil registration and vital statistics |
| CSE |
comprehensive sexuality education |
| D&C |
dilatation and (sharp) curettage |
| D&E |
dilatation and evacuation |
| EML |
WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (or Essential Medicines List) |
| EmOC |
emergency obstetric care |
| ERG |
External Review Group |
| ERRG |
Evidence and Recommendation Review Group |
| EST |
Evidence Synthesis Team |
| EtD |
Evidence to Decision |
| EVA |
electric vacuum aspiration |
| GDG |
Guideline Development Group |
| GRADE |
Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation |
| GRC |
Guidelines Review Committee |
| HMIS |
Health management information systems |
| IUD |
intrauterine device |
| IUFD |
intrauterine fetal demise |
| IV |
intravenous |
| LMIS |
logistics management information systems |
| LMP |
last menstrual period |
| MVA |
manual vacuum aspiration |
| NEML |
national essential medicines list |
| NGO |
nongovernmental organization |
| NMRA |
national medicines regulatory authorities |
| NSAID |
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug |
| OCP |
oral contraceptive pill |
| PCB |
paracervical block |
| PHC |
primary health care |
| PICO |
population, intervention, comparator, outcome(s) |
| Rh |
Rhesus (blood group) |
| SDG |
Sustainable Development Goal |
| SRH |
sexual and reproductive health |
| STI |
sexually transmitted infection |
| UHC |
universal health coverage |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
| UNFPA |
United Nations Population Fund |
| USA |
United States of America |
| VAS |
visual analogue scale |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
