Evidence and Resources for Postabortion Care
Latest evidence and resources to guide PAC programming
Postabortioncare.org provides evidence-based resources to guide implementation of high-quality postabortion care. Designed for policymakers and implementers, this site serves as a repository for the USAID Postabortion Care Curriculum and other USG-compliant PAC implementation resources, latest reviewed literature on PAC, as well as country and project-specific case studies.
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Postabortioncare.org provides the latest in PAC implementation resources, peer-reviewed research, historical PAC resources and country case studies to support introduction and scale-up of quality postabortion care globally
2024 USAID Postabortion Care Curriculum
The USAID MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project has developed a revised Postabortion Care Curriculum (2024) for service providers that builds on the earlier 2010 edition. The curriculum incorporates updates from key resources and evidence from decades of PAC programming and implementation research worldwide, has removed outdated practices, and streamlined the narrative to improve understanding and skills acquisition.
PAC Connection
The PAC Connection, established in 2008, is an interagency working group of USAID and its implementing partners with activities or interest in PAC. Currently managed by MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership in close collaboration with a global steering committee, the PAC Connection meets semi-annually to share best practices, lessons learned, and technical knowledge on PAC.
PAC Implementation Resources
A collection of implementation resources intended to support high-quality delivery and scale-up of PAC, including the 2024 USAID Postabortion Care Curriculum for providers. Resources are organized by Provider Training Materials, Health Systems Guidance and Clinical Guidance.
Select Evidence
A collection of foundational resources to the PAC field, recent peer-reviewed literature, and links to external clinical guidance to support delivery of high-quality postabortion care.
Country Examples
A collection of country-specific PAC implementation materials, including technical briefs and full reports from recent PAC projects.
What we’re reading
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy: Reducing Mortality Among Women and Children
Accessible, affordable, and high-quality postabortion care (PAC) can prevent maternal death and disability and provides an important opportunity to prevent future unintended pregnancies. This supplement offers learnings on PAC provision from the community of partners around the world, including service delivery and community engagement models, approaches to support facility-based providers, best practices in pre- and post-procedure counseling, and approaches to institutionalize PAC in public- and private-sector health systems.
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.
Planification du passage à echelle de la planif ication familiale apres avortement adaptee aux adolescentes et jeunes au Sénégal
Entre septembre 2018 et juillet 2019, le projet Evidence to Action (E2A) de Pathfinder International, avec l’appui de l’USAID et en étroite collaboration avec le projet Neema de IntraHealth International a appuyé le Ministère de la Santé et de l’Action Sociale du Sénégal (MSAS) pour la mise en œuvre et la planification du passage à grande échelle (PAGE) d’une intervention dénommée planification familiale après avortement adaptée aux adolescents et jeunes (PFAA-AAJ). S’appuyant sur le cycle de projet de E2A illustré ci bas, ce résumé technique retrace les différentes étapes de cet appui ainsi les résultats clés obtenus.