Abortion in humanitarian settings

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An estimated 26 million women and girls of reproductive age are living in humanitarian settings around the world, yet they often have little or no access to contraception and safe abortion care. We’re working with international humanitarian organizations to fill that gap and ensure women and girls affected by crisis have reproductive health options that include safe abortion and contraception.

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One Rohingya woman’s story shows what’s at stake for so many refugees in need of reproductive health care

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Photo exhibit on reproductive health care for Rohingya refugees

Ipas and the Danish Ambassador to the United States hosted a photo exhibit reception to highlight the critical need for reproductive health care for Rohingya refugees. Watch this short video from the event, prepared by the Danish embassy staff.

Paramedics, midwives and doctors who go through Ipas’s training can provide menstrual regulation (as abortion is known in Bangladesh) and treatment for complications of unsafe abortion.

Essential health care

At a health center in the refugee camp where Noor was living, she was able to safely end her unwanted pregnancy that was the result of sexual assault as she fled her village in Myanmar.

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A basic necessity in any crisis

Reproductive health care is a basic necessity for women and girls in humanitarian settings, but all too often services are not available. We need to open our eyes to this problem and take action to ensure the care they need is provided.
HAUWA SHEKARAU, COUNTRY DIRECTOR, IPAS NIGERIA

PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

In Pakistan, Ipas and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) partnered to conduct trainings focused on one of the major barriers to the provision of abortion care in humanitarian settings—the stigma surrounding abortion and a lack of knowledge about the abortion procedure and its legal status.