Preventing Unsafe Abortion: Achievements and Challenges of a Global Figo Initiative

Publication date: Available online 12 June 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Anibal Faundes, Rodica Comendant, Berna Dilbaz, Guyo Jaldesa, Robert Leke, Basab Mukherjee, Marina Padilla de Gil, Luis Tavara, The FIGO Initiative for the Prevention of Unsafe AbortionAbstractFIGO established the Working Group on Prevention of Unsafe abortion in 2007 and a parallel program or "Initiative" with the same name. The initiative involved 46 FIGO member societies from seven regions: South-Southeast Asia, Eastern-Central Europe & Central Asia, North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern-Central-Southern Africa, Western-Central Africa, Central America & Caribbean and South America. Each society working in collaboration with the corresponding Ministry of Health and other agencies carried out a Situational analysis and prepared a plan of action based on the findings. Such plans of action are continuously monitored by annual evaluation of the progress in the implementation at Regional Workshops. A substantial progress has been achieved in providing legal and safe abortion services, replacing curettage for Manual Vacuum Aspiration or misoprostol and introducing and expanding post-abortion contraception with emphasis on long acting methods, such as IUDs and contraceptive implants.
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Category: OBGYN Source Type: research