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 |