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  • COVID-19 impact
  • IPSRH: Focus on Abortion
  • Adding It Up
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
  • State legislation tracker

Reports

  • Global
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Articles

  • Global research
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Data & Visualizations

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  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Global

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

U.S.

  • Abortion
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  • Pregnancy
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Latin America & the Caribbean

The Guttmacher Institute’s work in Latin America and the Caribbean has focused on documenting the incidence and consequences of abortion and unintended pregnancy, and supporting strategies that enable women to better time and space their pregnancies. The Institute also has estimated age-specific abortion rates and the cost of providing postabortion care; documented adolescents’ knowledge and use of sexual and reproductive health information and services; and promoted fact-based, comprehensive sex education and youth-friendly, confidential services.

View sexual and reproductive health research and analysis in your location

  • Fact Sheet

    Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Worldwide

  • Policy Analysis

    Crisis on the Horizon: Devastating Losses for Global Reproductive Health Are Possible Due to COVID-19

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    Initiatives

    Adding It Up: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 760,000

    women are hospitalized annually for treatment of complications of unsafe abortion
  • 3 in 4

    surveyed teachers in Peru say they lack teaching materials on sexuality education
  • 32

    abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49 in Latin America occurred annually in 2015-2019

Resources

  • April 2012 Report

    Making Abortion Services Accessible in the Wake of Legal Reforms

    Gilda Sedgh, Susheela Singh and Lori S. Ashford

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
  • January 2012 Research Article

    Induced abortion: incidence and trends worldwide from 1995 to 2008

    Gilda Sedgh, Susheela Singh, Iqbal H Shah,, Elisabeth Åhman, Stanley K Henshaw and Akinrinola Bankole,The Lancet

    Global

    • Abortion
  • September 2011 Report

    Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Colombia: Causes and Consequences

    Elena Prada, Susheela Singh, Lisa Remez and Cristina Villarreal

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2011 Research Article

    ‘Without a plan’ but ‘keeping on track’: Views on contraception, pregnancy and abortion in Mexico City

    Fatima Juárez,Global Public Health

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • December 2009 Report

    Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health

    Susheela Singh, Jacqueline E. Darroch, Lori S. Ashford and Michael Vlassoff

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • December 2009 Report

    Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress

    Susheela Singh, Deirdre Wulf, Rubina Hussain, Akinrinola Bankole and Gilda Sedgh

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Pregnancy
  • May 2008 Report

    Asegurar un mañana más saludable en Centroamérica: Proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud de hoy

    Luis Rosero Bixby, Elena Prada, Susheela Singh and Akinrinola Bankole

    Global

    • Teens
  • November 2006 Report

    Early Childbearing in Guatemala: A Continuing Challenge

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • September 2006 Report

    Early Childbearing in Honduras: A Continuing Challenge

    Global

    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • April 2003 Report

    Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care 2003

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy

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