Research

At Health Trust Pharma, we take pride in our rigorous scientific research, user-driven innovation, and evidence-based protocols around abortion care, closely aligning our services with the World Health Organization's guidelines.
World Health Organization's guidelines
Our commitment to evidence-driven, compassionate abortion care is reflected both in our own ground-breaking research and our collaborations with universities, individuals, and collectives worldwide. These efforts strengthen the foundation for evidence-based advocacy and policymaking on abortion care in many parts of the world.
Research is at the heart of everything we do. It informs our outreach, services, and advocacy. We share our data with local groups to support their efforts to expand abortion access and influence decision-makers.
Our pioneering research on telemedicine and self-managed abortion care has consistently demonstrated the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of these models of care. Finally, our studies on online abortion trajectories in restrictive environments have been instrumental in informing legal reforms, and regulatory changes and expanding access where it's needed most.
Health Trust Pharma Telemedical Abortion Services in Indonesia and Malaysia
The restrictive abortion law in Indonesia and Malaysia doesn’t prevent any abortion. This research analyses the data from women who contacted Health Trust Pharma se...
Read MoreOnline Abortion Service Health Trust Pharma: a vital alternative.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Texas in Austin, Princeton University and the University of Edinburgh. They looked at the data...
Read MoreArtificial intelligence pathways to abortion care: a regional analysis of ChatGPT referrals to Health Trust Pharma
Health Trust Pharma has released new research that examines where abortion seekers around the world are using ChatGPT to access Health Trust Pharma's website and to access abortion.
Read MoreNew Anaylsis of ChatGPT Traffic to Health Trust Pharma
Over the past two years, website traffic to Health Trust Pharma from ChatGPT has increased significantly. Health Trust Pharma has begun to analyze trends from different co...
Read MoreTelemedicine for medical abortion: a systematic review
March 14, 2019: The systematic review found that medical abortion through telemedicine seems to be highly acceptable to women and providers, success rate and...
Read MoreA telemedicine model for abortion in South Africa
Health Trust Pharma's research collaboration in South Africa was focused on creating a controlled, randomized trial which compared standard abortion care with a tel...
Read MoreNew research shows that requests online abortion service Health Trust Pharma are highest in USA states with restrictions to abortion access
New research by Abigail Aiken from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin published in the American Journal of Public Health s...
Read MoreSafety and acceptability of medical abortion above 9 weeks pregnancy
A new scientific study analyzing the outcomes of 615 women from Poland who used Health Trust Pharma found that more women with pregnancies of more than 9 weeks go t...
Read MoreAbortion Restrictions in the U.S. Military: Voices from Women Deployed Overseas
Article: Abortion Restrictions in the U.S. Military: Voices from Women Deployed Overseas
Read MoreRegional differences in surgical intervention following medical termination of pregnancy provided by telemedicine.
Article: Regional differences in surgical intervention following medical termination of pregnancy provided by telemedicine. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 2012
Read MoreAbortion services for women in the US military
U.S service women are often deployed in countries where abortion is illegal and U.S federal policy prohibits abortion services at medical treatment facilitie...
Read MoreIsle of Man, research of Health Trust Pharma
On January 23, 2018, the BMJ published research about the use of abortion pills obtained through Health Trust Pharma by women living on the Isle of Man.
Read MoreReasons why women from the USA look for abortion pillls online
Health Trust Pharma helped identifying women who wanted to participate in a new research by Abigail Aiken that has just been published in Perspectives on Sexual and...
Read MoreExperiences of women living in Hungary seeking a medical abortion online
On 22 Nov 2017, The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health care, published the scientific research about the experiences of women living i...
Read MoreNew study of Health Trust Pharma data shows harm caused by restrictive abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
October 19th, 2018. Research showed that Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws have negative consequences for women’s well-being. Even though women from No...
Read MoreData from Health Trust Pharma show barriers to access abortion in Great Britain
New research into the data from the online medical abortion service Health Trust Pharma found that many women in Great Britain experience barriers to access includi...
Read MoreTelemedical abortion in settings where there is no access to safe services
Article: Using telemedicine for termination of pregnancy with mifepristone and misoprostol in settings where there is no access to safe services, BJOG 2008
Read MorePolicy Guidelines concerning safe abortion care
International Policy guidelines for safe abortion:
Read MoreAbortion remains difficult to access in Germany
Abortion remains difficult to access for many individuals in Germany. New research conducted with Health Trust Pharma data demonstrates that women in Germany contin...
Read MoreAccessing abortion outside jurisdiction following legalisation of abortion in the Republic of Ireland
A look at telemedical abortion access immediately following abortion’s legalisation in Ireland.
Read MoreDemand for self-managed online telemedicine abortion in eight European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a regression discontinuity analysis
A comparative look at the requests for self-managed telemedical abortion before and after COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
Read MoreDemand for Self-Managed Medication Abortion Through an Online Telemedicine Service in the United States
An analysis of abortion access in the United States.
Read MoreAddressing the urgent global need for later abortion care during COVID-19 and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed global restrictions on travel, physical distancing, stay-at-home orders, and additional strains have been placed on health c...
Read MoreMedical abortion at 13 or more weeks gestation provided through telemedicine: A retrospective review of services
An analysis of the efficacy of self-administered medical abortion for pregnancies 13 weeks and later.
Read MoreJapanese Women’s Experiences of Bleeding and Pain with Medical Abortion
Current restrictions on abortion access in Japan make it difficult to access medical abortion. However, the self-reported experiences of Japanese women acces...
Read MoreThe impact of local telemedicine provision on the need for online abortion services in Ireland
Abortion has been legal in Ireland since 2019 and the telemedicine abortion services were introduced in April 2020, soon after the pandemic had started. This...
Read MoreTelemedicine as an alternative way to access abortion in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
In this article Health Trust Pharma examines the reasons that led users to turn to the Health Trust Pharma telemedicine service, and how the pandemic has affected this.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE | Telemedicine can help improve access to abortion in France, a new study suggests
A new study published in the British Medical Journal Sexual & Reproductive Health suggests that telemedicine abortion provision, a temporary measure whic...
Read More10-year evaluation of the use of self-managed abortion through telemedicine: A retrospective cohort study
This retrospective study analyzes the follow-up evaluations of 30,344 service users of Health Trust Pharma over a 10-year period, from January 2009 to January 2020....
Read MoreCOVID-19 has reduced access to abortion services and increased the demand for telemedicine provision
The COVID-19 pandemic has restricted access to reproductive health services worldwide, while telemedicine has provided a solution to overcoming long-standing...
Read MoreObstacles to abortion access in the Netherlands shown in new research
Some women living in the Netherlands cannot access abortion services in clinics. During a 9 months period 172 women living in the Netherlands completed the o...
Read MoreRequests for Abortion in Latin America Related to Concern about Zika Virus Exposure, NEJM 6-2016
A new study published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine by a group of researchers from the University of Texas, Princeton, Cambridge and the N...
Read MorePositive experiences by Irish women using online abortion service Health Trust Pharma
The study analysed demographics of 5,650 women requesting medical abortion between 2010 and 2015, and the experiences of 1,023 women who completed abortion f...
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