Publication Date December 1, 2021 Research & Evidence

Thinking Big about Postabortion Care: Improving postabortion care and postabortion family planning through identification, prioritization, and enabling critical behaviors

Complications from miscarriage and unsafe induced abortions are a major cause of mortality or morbidity for women worldwide, particularly in low and middle-income countries. USAID and its partners have been investing resources in improving the access to and quality of postabortion care (PAC) for decades. New guidance from USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership contributes to that work by leveraging lessons learned from global efforts to date by unpacking key behaviors around PAC and postabortion family planning. Specifically, the guidance pinpoints and prioritizes key actions, actors, enabling and inhibiting factors, and strategies at different levels in order to transform global PAC. For each behavior, the guidance describes pathways to change demonstrated to enable and sustain the behavior. Country programs can use this guidance to identify and resolve context-specific challenges and opportunities to promote quality PAC and postabortion family planning.

Publication Date September 1, 2023 Program & Technical Resources

Revitalizing and Scaling Up Postpartum and Postabortion Family Planning Within Universal Health Coverage: Global Convening Report

MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics held a global convening, “Revitalizing and Scaling Up Postpartum and Postabortion Family Planning within Universal Health Coverage.” Presentations reviewed progress and challenges, how the pillars of universal health coverage intersect with Postpartum Family Planning/Post-abortion Family Planning, and how the maternal health and family planning communities need to come together.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

A Call to Action – Postpartum and Postabortion Family Planning: High-Impact Practices That Must Be Scaled up Through Universal Health Coverage and Primary Health Care Frameworks

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Primary Health Care (PHC) frameworks provide unique opportunities to advance scale-up of postpartum and postabortion family planning (PPFP and PAFP), interventions which are crucial in reducing unmet need for contraception and have proven impacts on maternal, newborn, and child survival and wellbeing. This Call to Action urges all stakeholders to champion five priority actions to support scaling up PPFP and PPFP in the UHC and PHC contexts.

Publication Date September 1, 2024 Training & Guidance

2024 Postabortion Care Curriculum

Postabortion care (PAC) is a package of lifesaving interventions that combines maternal healthcare, including emergency treatment for complications of induced or spontaneous abortion, with voluntary contraceptive counseling and service delivery before a PAC client is discharged from a facility. When PAC is accessible, affordable, of high-quality, and performed by capable healthcare providers, it can prevent maternal deaths and disabilities and improve access to contraception.

Publication Date March 1, 2021 Research & Evidence

Opportunities and Challenges of Delivering Postabortion Care and Postpartum Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article, originally published in Global Health: Science and Practice, was developed to assist decision-makers in maximizing the provision of essential services without compromising access to quality family planning care and while minimizing the risk of COVID-19 transmission among clients, between clients, and health care workers.

Publication Date July 1, 2024 Program & Technical Resources

Strengthening the Family Planning Component of Maternal Health Care: A New Call to Action to Seize the Opportunity Provided by Universal Health Coverage and Primary Healthcare Frameworks

Postpartum family planning (PPFP) and postabortion family planning (PAFP) are recognized as high-impact, evidence-based interventions that can reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity, respond to unmet need for voluntary contraception, and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Although there has been progress over time and some notable success, efforts in scaling up PPFP and PAFP have been uneven, as the result of a variety of continuing barriers. Scaling up PPFP and PAFP requires stronger health system stewardship, community and private sector engagement, measurement, and financing. Maternal health leadership is also essential.