Abortion Research Compendium – India

Health workforce and service delivery

In a sustainable abortion ecosystem, public and private evidence-based abortion services are shaped by individual and community needs. Services are free of stigma, respect human rights and are available through a trained and supported health workforce that meet clinical and service delivery standards.

Post-abortion contraceptive use among currently married women in India: New evidence from National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 (NFHS-5)

2025 Joemet Jose,Ajit Kumar Kannaujiya,Kaushalendra Kumar,Lotus McDougal,Katherine Hay,Abhishek Singh

Supporting self-managed abortion care in "practice not premise": a qualitative study of provider perspectives, roles, and information pathways to care in India

2025 Laura E. Jacobson,Caila Brander,Balasubramanian Palanisamy,Sruthi Chandrasekaran,Blair G. Darney,Julia M. Goodman,Ruvani Jayaweera,Caitlin Gerdts

Unsupervised Medication-Induced Abortions: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Tertiary-Care Hospital

2025 Preetam K. Lenka,Manoj Kumar Mohanty,Saubhagya K. Jena,Sudipta Singh,Jyotiranjan Sahoo

Respectful Abortion Care initiative: How a large-scale virtual training for providers in India increased knowledge of the new 2021 Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act

2024 Shantha Kumari, Kandala Aparna Sharma, Sumita Ghosh, Barru Aruna Suman, Ajey Bhardwaj, Manju Puri, Pushpa Chaudhary, Tapas Chatterjee, Sapna Dubey, Priya Karna