Bibliographic information
Recommendation
For intrauterine devices (IUDs): Recommend insertion/removal by auxiliary nurse midwives, nurses, midwives, associate/advanced associate clinicians, generalist medical practitioners and specialist medical practitioners.
Recommended in favor
Strong
Notes and Remarks
KEY HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS RELEVANT TO POST-ABORTION CONTRACEPTION
- Contraception should be provided only where the person has given free and informed consent to receive it.
- States must ensure availability of the full range of contraceptive options, including a wide range of modern, safe and affordable methods.
- States must ensure adequate access to essential medicines, including contraceptives, in an affordable and non-discriminatory manner.
- Everyone has a right to evidence-based information on all aspects of SRH, including contraceptives.
- Contraceptive information and services must be provided without discrimination, coercion or violence.
- Everyone has a right to privacy and confidentiality in the receipt of contraceptive information and services.
- Post-abortion contraceptive information and services should be available and accessible to adolescents without requiring parental or guardian authorization.
- States must guarantee that practices of conscientious refusal/objection do not infringe on the right to contraceptive information and services. For further information and sources, please refer to Box 1.2 and Web annex A: Key international human rights standards on abortion.
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WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience.