This training manual is for clinical mentors and others providing clinical and programmatic support to health-care providers offering abortion-related care. It includes content, activities and materials to improve their knowledge, attitudes and skills for clinical mentoring and provider support.
In 2017, Ipas continued to train doctors, midwives and nurses to safely and respectfully perform abortions and provide counseling on contraceptive options. We continued partnering with community-based organizations—experts on the needs of women and girls in their communities—to teach people about their sexual and reproductive rights. We also continued to educate policymakers about the need for safe abortion, to train police and lawyers on how to uphold women’s rights within their legal systems, and to partner with local groups that advocate for sexual and reproductive rights. Learn about our impact in 2017 and read stories and highlights from the year in our annual report.
Despite being a considerable percentage of the population, people with disabilities are grossly underserved and neglected by sexual and reproductive health services, particularly those focused on safe abortion and contraceptive care. While donors, sexual and reproductive health program implementers, universities and activists are beginning to examine the needs and rights of people with disabilities, considerable gaps persist in the specific areas of safe abortion and contraceptive care.
This guide is a resource for program implementers and managers, technical advisors and trainers who design interventions to improve access to abortion and contraceptive care. It offers strategies for improving disability inclusion in policy, service delivery and community engagement interventions and can be adapted to meet the unique needs of each context. Recommendations are based on the human rights model of disability, which includes a “twin-track” approach that promotes the empowerment of people with disabilities by creating disability-specific initiatives and integrating disability inclusion in general programming. Active and meaningful participation of people with disabilities throughout all stages of planning, implementing and evaluating abortion and contraceptive care interventions is a core principle underlying each recommendation included in this guide.
Until recently, WHO operationally defined unsafe abortion as illegal abortion. In the past decade, however, the incidence of abortion by misoprostol administration has increased in countries with restrictive abortion laws. Access to safe surgical abortions has also increased in many such countries. An important effect of these trends has been that, even in an illegal environment, abortion is becoming safer, and an updated system for classifying abortion in accordance with safety is needed across categories of safety.
Logically, all women receiving abortion care should also receive contraceptive information, and a method if they wish one; likewise, family planning providers should be equipped to support women who have unintended pregnancies. However, integrating family planning and abortion care is often a challenge.
Orientación y recursos para capacitadores y trabajadores de salud de primera línea en servicios de aborto.
This publication provides an overview of the neglected sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of migrant, refugee and displaced women.
Orientación y recursos para capacitadores y trabajadores de salud de primera línea en servicios de aborto.
La negativa por parte de profesionales de la salud a proporcionar servicios a los que se oponen por motivos morales o religiosos es una barrera significativa para el acceso de las mujeres a servicios de aborto seguro y otros servicios de salud reproductiva. Esta publicación contiene recomendaciones para promulgar leyes y reglamentos que salvaguarden el acceso de las mujeres a los servicios a la vez que protejan el derecho de cada profesional de la salud a la objeción de conciencia. Además, proporciona información sobre las normas de derechos humanos que abordan la negativa por parte de profesionales de la salud, así como una lista de recursos adicionales.
The study investigated whether women with etonogestrel implant placement in the immediate postabortion period have similar continuation rates to women with interval placement.The risk of discontinuation in women with postabortion placement was higher but not statistically different than women with interval placement (unadjusted hazard ratio 1.79, 95% confidence interval 0.81-3.96). For women who want a contraceptive implant after an abortion, immediate placement should be available.
Ipas works with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) to train medical students from around the world on the importance of safe abortion access for women’s health. Here, Joe Cherabie, a medical student in Lebanon and IFMSA student trainer on safe abortion, explains why he believes these trainings are so important.
Ipas works with the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) to train medical students from around the world on the importance of safe abortion access for women’s health. Here, Joe Cherabie, a medical student in Lebanon and IFMSA student trainer on safe abortion, explains why he believes these trainings are so important.
Orientación y recursos para capacitadores y trabajadores de salud de primera línea en servicios de aborto.
Orientación y recursos para capacitadores y trabajadores de salud de primera línea en servicios de aborto.
Support H.R. 3206: The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2013, which would ensure access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care that includes safe abortion.
The Hyde and Helms Amendments restrict federal funding for legal abortion care here and abroad and unfairly penalize women for being poor. This is a fact sheet comparing these U.S. policies on abortion.
Este manual fue creado para preparar a profesionales de la salud para que proporcionen servicios de atención postaborto de alta calidad. Es útil para una audiencia general, que incluye personal clínico, capacitadores, gerentes de programas y personas que llevan a cabo actividades de extension comunitaria. Ofrece información clínica a fondo sobre opciones seguras y eficaces para la evacuación endouterina en el primer trimestre y aborda asuntos generales relacionados con la prestación de servicios y el acceso a estos, tales como los derechos de las mujeres jóvenes, comunicación entre usuarias y prestadores de servicios, y monitoreo para mejorar los servicios. Puede ser utilizado en países donde no existen indicaciones legales para el aborto inducido o donde existen importantes restricciones al aborto inducido.
This resource is primarily intended to help legal and policy advocates utilize the concept of privacy to support providers in guaranteeing women’s right to confidential abortion care. Health-care professionals may also find the resource provides useful guidelines on protecting patient privacy. Included is a review of providers’ ethical obligations to maintain confidentiality, a review of human rights protections related to privacy in health care, and an analysis of how confidentiality is treated in different national laws. This resource will also show that requiring providers to report women suspected of obtaining unlawful abortions violates protections of privacy and confidentiality under international human rights law.
Este manual ofrece orientación para personal de salud sobre cómo mejorar la calidad de la atención disponible a las mujeres que buscan servicios de evacuación endouterina. Ha sido actualizado para que concuerde con la publicación de la Organización Mundial de la Salud titulada Aborto sin riesgos: Guía técnica y de políticas para sistemas de salud (2012) y otros documentos y artículos importantes basados en evidencia. Explica a fondo el procedimiento de evacuación endouterina con la aspiración manual endouterina (AMEU) y también explica los métodos de evacuación endouterina que utilizan misoprostol y mifepristona (a menudo conocidos como aborto con medicamentos). Fue creado para ser utilizado como un manual de participantes durante cursos facilitados por capacitadores y como un recurso de aprendizaje para ayudar a refrescar y fortalecer las habilidades de cada participante. Los elementos especiales son módulos que abordan asuntos generales relacionados con la prestación de servicios y el acceso a estos, tales como los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres, incluidos los derechos de las jóvenes; comunicación entre usuarias y prestadores de servicios; alianzas entre profesionales de la salud y la comunidad; calidad de la atención; y monitoreo para mejorar los servicios.