Realising the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Access to Essential Medicines for Medical Abortion as a Core Obligation

Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, Katrina Perehudoff, Jelle Stekelenburg
2018

Background: WHO has a pivotal role to play as the leading international agency promoting good practices in health and human rights. In 2005, mifepristone and misoprostol were added to WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicines for combined use to terminate unwanted pregnancies. However, these drugs ...