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 |