La Guía de Ipas para la gestión de insumos de AM es una herramienta sencilla para la gestión de insumos, de gran utilidad en ámbitos de prestación de servicios donde se emplea el misoprostol para la atención postaborto (APA), así como en ámbitos donde se ofrecen tanto misoprostol para la APA como servicios de aborto inducido. Esta herramienta le permitirá calcular rápida y fácilmente el consumo mensual promedio de misoprostol (y mifepristona, dependiendo de su establecimiento) en su unidad de salud, así como los niveles mínimo y máximo de inventario recomendados. Esta herramienta fue elaborada por Ipas.
A Ferramenta de Orientação para Gestão de Suprimentos de AM do Ipas é uma ferramenta de gestão de suprimentos simples que pode ser usada com sucesso nos locais de prestação de serviços que usam misoprostol para serviços de assistência pós-aborto (APA), bem como nos locais onde misoprostol é usado para APA e para aborto induzido. Esta ferramenta ajudar-lhe-á a calcular de forma rápida e fácil o consumo médio mensal de misoprostol da sua unidade sanitária (incluindo mifepristona, dependendo do seu contexto) e os níveis mínimos e máximos de inventário recomendados. Esta ferramenta foi desenvolvida pelo Ipas.
La Guidance proposée par Ipas concernant les fournitures requises pour l’avortement médicamenteux constitue un outil de gestion des fournitures simple d’emploi pouvant être utilisé par les centres de fourniture de services qui utilisent le misoprostol dans le cadre des soins après avortement, ainsi que par les centres qui proposent le misoprostol à la fois dans le cadre des soins après avortement et pour des avortements provoqués. Cet outil permet de calculer rapidement et aisément la consommation moyenne mensuelle de misoprostol (et, le cas échéant, de mifépristone) de votre institution, ainsi que les stocks minimal et maximal recommandés. Cet outil a été développé par Ipas.
If your organization receives global health assistance (monetary and non-monetary) from the U.S. government, there may be certain types of abortion-related work that you cannot perform—and these restrictions can even limit work funded from sources other than the U.S. government.
This guide is intended for advocates interested in supporting expanded access to safe abortion care in their countries. It will help you and your colleagues develop a strategy that considers the unique considerations for abortion-related advocacy. It is intended that you will work through the guide with a small group of stakeholders who are committed to working together on expanded access to safe abortion care.
This resource is an excerpt from Ipas’s Roots of Change: a step-by-step advocacy guide for expanding access to safe abortion. The purpose of this section is to provide you with the key considerations and practical resources necessary to ensure a sustainable and well-functioning coalition for your advocacy work.
This fact sheet highlights the disproportionately high impact of criminal abortion laws on young women. In places where abortion is a crime, women who are young, poor, uneducated and facing an unwanted pregnancy are at greater risk of resorting to illegal and unsafe abortions, and consequently being investigated, arrested and prosecuted.
An overview of progressive abortion policy changes and trends in Africa, primarily between 2010-2016. It outlines strategies in regional policy work by Ipas and partners and points to examples of positive policy change, such as national law reform, updated standards and guidelines, commitments by policymakers, and the integration of safe abortion into regional strategies and actions plans on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
This guide is a resource for advocates, trainers, project managers and technical advisors who design programs and workshops to engage police on abortion issues. Drawing on the work of Ipas and other organizations, it offers practical strategies for partnering with police to address stigmatized issues and promote public health, with a specific focus on abortion. It can be used both in settings where abortion is legal and accessible and in settings where it is highly restricted.
The longstanding provider-patient confidentiality relationship is quietly eroding as an alarming number of medical staff across Latin America are reporting women and girls to the police for having abortions. Many countries now require, protect or encourage medical providers to breach their confidentiality duties when they treat women seeking postabortion care. This publication covers the three main ways health-care providers are compelled to breach confidentiality, based on the varying Latin American laws governing provider obligations on the issue of abortion. It also details how such laws impact both providers and women, and lists the many international bodies, declarations, consensus documents, etc. that establish standards for protecting patient confidentiality. Finally, the publication provides recommendations for international human rights bodies, governments and health-care professionals to protect women’s right to confidentiality as well as providers’ ethical obligation to uphold that right.
For women who want to end their pregnancies, laws that allow only medical doctors to provide abortion are real barriers. Abortion can safely be provided by nurses, midwives, paramedical personnel and other midlevel providers. Women who have correct information can take pills to end a pregnancy safely outside a health facility. However, many abortion laws require the involvement of one or more medical doctors. These laws criminalize women and other health professionals who end pregnancies safely without a doctor. Under doctor-only laws, health systems—particularly in the global south—cannot train enough abortion providers to make abortion accessible to all women. Doctor-only laws discriminate against women who belong to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and who are least likely to have access to medical doctors. Lawmakers need not designate who can provide abortion in the law. Documents such as national health standards and guidelines are better suited to clarify who are authorized providers. This publication explains how Standards and Guidelines, enacted by the Ministry of Health and ideally updated every few years, can reflect the latest scientific evidence in abortion care.
This resource is designed to help advocates and policymakers promote laws and policies that support access to safe abortion for young women. Parental involvement requirements in law or policy are common barriers that push young women toward illegal and often unsafe abortion.
This publication provides evidence and explanation for why Ipas urges governments and policymakers to ensure that all young women—including survivors of sexual violence—have access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including safe abortion services.
This toolkit is designed to help reproductive rights advocates participate in national constitutional reform processes. It looks at the potential consequences of constitutional protection of life at conception and outlines ways reproductive rights advocates can influence the constitutional reform process. It also may be useful for advocates facing constitutional amendments or engaging in litigation.
Health professionals’ refusal to provide service that they oppose on moral or religious grounds is a significant barrier to women’s access to safe abortion and other reproductive health services. This resource contains recommendations for enacting laws and regulations that safeguard women’s access to services while still protecting providers’ rights of conscience. It also provides information on human rights standards that address provider refusal and includes a list of further resources.
In Latin America, government responses to the Zika virus have been weak, disregarding the best interests of pregnant women and those who may become pregnant. This brief outlines Ipas’s stance on governments’ responses to the Zika crisis and women’s sexual and reproductive health needs. The brief also lists measures states can take to protect women’s health and rights during the Zika outbreak.
This card for humanitarian professionals provides an overview of manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) for safe abortion with a focus on humanitarian settings—plus instructions for how to obtain MVA equipment through Inter-Agency RH Kits and from DKT WomanCare.
This two-page material provides simple instructions for safely using abortion with pills and is intended as a resource for health providers to share with their patients. Available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
This job aid provides clinicians with step-by-step instructions for performing a paracervical block.
