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Number of abortions and post-abortion care services provided by method, 2000 to 2011
Increasing access
In order to reduce the negative consequences of unsafe abortion, we increase access to safe abortion and post-abortion care. In 2011 alone, we provided safe abortion and post-abortion care services to nearly 2 million women1 across the globe.
Key statistics
Key statistics from our efforts in the provision of safe abortion and post-abortion care include:
- The global number of safe abortions and post-abortion care services that we provided increased by 46% from 2010 to 2011.
- Most of this growth came from increases in home-based medical abortions, which grew by 72% from 2010 to 2011 and now represents 63% of all MSI’s safe abortions and post-abortion care.
- 55% of total safe abortion and post-abortion care services were provided in south Asia.
We also reduce harm from unsafe abortion by providing our safe abortion and post-abortion care clients with family planning. This is explored further in Chapter 6 in the section ‘Family planning following safe abortion and post-abortion care.’
