What Should I Do after an Abortion?
Post-Abortion Care (referred to as PAC). According to WHO guidelines, the core components of PAC include medical services for abortion complications, post-abortion family planning services (PAFPS), post-abortion counselling services, post-abortion community services, and comprehensive post-abortion reproductive health services.
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- Chinese name
- Care after miscarriage
- Foreign name
- Post-Abortion Care
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- PAC
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- Consulting services after abortion, etc.
- Post-Abortion Care (referred to as PAC). According to WHO guidelines, the core components of PAC include medical services for abortion complications, post-abortion family planning services (PAFPS), post-abortion counselling services, post-abortion community services, and comprehensive post-abortion reproductive health services.
- It is a standardized medical service process. Through a series of services, it promotes contraceptive knowledge and implements effective contraceptive methods to the general public, especially patients who come to undergo abortion surgery.
- Post-abortion family planning services (PAFPS) are a very important part of the PAC system. The key points of PAFPS are four aspects: strengthening the awareness of "immediate contraception", making informed choice of appropriate contraceptive methods, implementing contraceptive measures immediately, and insisting on proper use. By 2001, post-abortion services had been implemented in more than 40 countries around the world, and abortion rates had fallen by 25-50% in countries that have implemented post-abortion family planning services (FAFPS). International experience shows that the implementation of PAFPS can significantly reduce the rate of repeated abortions. Take the United States as an example. After one year, the rate of correct contraception among those who implement PAFPS is 48% higher than those who do not, and the rate of unintended pregnancy is reduced by 25%. This is because PAFPS uses methods such as one-on-one consultation, education for male partners, and the provision of medicines to effectively keep women away from the harm of repeated abortions even if they take the correct contraceptive method after abortion.
At present, there are 8 million abortions per year in China. Repeated abortion rates are as high as 50% in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. 88.2% of infertile women have undergone abortion surgery. The main causes of repeated abortions are: indifferent awareness of contraception or misunderstanding of contraceptive methods in young reproductive age groups, and China has not yet fully launched family planning services after abortion.
Because of this, in recent years, the Family Planning Branch of the Chinese Medical Association has been actively advocating the implementation of the PAC project in China. Since the launch of the "Scientific Contraception, Staying Away From People" proposal in 2009, the PAC project has achieved staged results. With the efforts of obstetrics and gynecology experts, the Guide to Family Planning Services after Abortion was published in the Chinese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in April this year, providing standardized standards and references for future medical system practice. In addition, the PAC project has received strong support from the International Center for Healthy Reproduction. Since 2006, the International Center for Healthy Reproduction has participated in the EU-funded PAC cooperative research project in China, which has provided a powerful help.
- Post-Abortion Quality Family Planning Service (PAC) is a standardized service system that has been successfully implemented in many countries. It promotes contraceptive knowledge to the majority of the reproductive age group, and at the same time implements contraceptive measures for women who have undergone abortion surgery to reduce repeated abortions rate. The Chinese Medical Association Family Planning Branch has been actively advocating the implementation of this standardized system in China.
- The post-abortion high-quality family planning service (PAC) and consulting expert clinic will integrate a team of senior experts to set up a private space, a dedicated contraceptive and abortion clinic consultation room, and provide a wide range of humanity for women (couples) and abortion patients of childbearing age. Forms of health consulting services. The clinic will provide face-to-face consultation and guidance to the patient, explaining it with pictures and pictures, informing about precautions after abortion and re-pregnancy soon after miscarriage, helping to analyze the cause of accidental pregnancy; assisting in selecting appropriate contraceptive methods and guiding patients to use correctly, while also guiding Implementation of follow-up measures; preventing unintended pregnancy, thereby reducing induced abortion and reducing repeated abortion rates; and providing comprehensive reproductive health services and psychological counseling services, and regularly holding a series of free lectures to the public to enable patients to understand the dangers of abortion and reproductive health knowledge To protect women's reproductive and mental health.
- There are about 13 million abortions every year in China. Women of childbearing age, especially adolescents, not only have high abortion rates, but also have repeated abortion rates and high-risk abortion rates. Induced abortion will not only cause complications such as menstrual disorders, uterine perforation, endometriosis, secondary infertility, etc., but will also cause psychological stress to the subject to varying degrees, and the unmarried person will have more severe psychological disorders. The establishment of high-quality post-abortion family planning services (PAC) and consulting specialist clinics will explore the new model of reducing artificial and natural abortion rates and protecting women's reproductive and mental health through the efforts of expert teams.