First Trimester Abortion: Pocket Book for Health-Care Providers

Overview

Goal of the pocketbook:
Management of first trimester abortion. Strengthening the knowledge and standardizing the skills of health-care providers, enabling them to provide women-centred, comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services, leading to a reduction in the complications of first trimester abortion.

Scope of the pocketbook: Management of first trimester abortion
The document “First trimester abortion – Pocketbook for health-care providers” highlights the key points and standard protocols for providing comprehensive abortion care (CAC) by a trained health-care provider (medical officer/nursing personnel/midwife/primary health-care worker) who is authorized to provide CAC as per the country’s legal framework.