| 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 |
