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Also Available In: English Français Português Ipas tiene una ambición audaz —erradicar el aborto inseguro a nivel mundial— y necesitamos la ayuda de otras personas para lograr este objetivo. En cada esfera donde trabajamos, Ipas cuenta con socios u org …

Ipas has a bold ambition—to advance reproductive justice around the world by ensuring access to abortion and contraception—and we need others to help us achieve it. In every sphere in which we work, Ipas relies on partners.

COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund Ipas is working to ensure that abortion remains an essential health service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is creating many barriers to abortion care—and some politicians are shamefully using it as a reason to d …

© Ipas Nepal © Ipas Nepal The Ipas Nepal team preparing boxes of personal protective equipment to dispatch to health centers they support (above). The team delivered thousands of masks and gloves, plus eye protection, hand sanitizer, soap and other sup …

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the gender, racial and economic inequities in health-care systems around the world that make it difficult for women, people of color, LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups to get the essential health care they need.

Ipas conducts policy- and program-relevant research on abortion in collaboration with diverse global, regional, national and local partners. We generate new knowledge for the larger reproductive health and rights community.

Accelerating contraceptive uptake through post-pregnancy care models Background Abortion self-care—an abortion with pills obtained without a prescription—is becoming more common globally. But little is known about access to postabortion contraception f …

Abortion Service Quality (ASQ) Initiative Background Ipas, Ibis Reproductive Health, and Metrics for Management are collaborating to develop a global standard for measuring the quality of abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, for abort …

Home 9 Search Results A prospective, comparative study of clinical outcomes following clinic-based versus self-use of medical abortion using mifepristone with misoprostol Background Medabon, a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol, is used f …

The right to an abortion is not a standalone right. It depends upon people also having other human rights: to health, to equality, to privacy and to live free from violence and discrimination.

The U.S. government has a major role to play in the global effort to fight unsafe abortion.

Gender-based violence puts women and girls at higher risk for unwanted pregnancy, and survivors require specially tailored care that includes access to emergency contraception and abortion.

Women and girls—and all people who can get pregnant—can’t determine their own futures without laws and policies that support access to abortion and contraception.

No matter where they live, women and girls—and all people who can get pregnant— should have access to the highest possible quality of abortion and contraceptive care.

Stigma shames and silences women who seek abortions—plus their health-care providers and anyone associated with abortion—and it contributes greatly to the incidence of unsafe abortion.

Home 9 Search Results Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programs have a positive impact on young people’s sexual and reproductive health—and their ability to make safe and informed decisions. But the topic of abortion remains absent from mos …

Home 9 Search Results Maryam Abdulahi (left) participated in Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation’s on-the-job training (OJT) and now trains other health workers on safe postabortion care at the Kutai Primary Health Care Center, Jigawa State. Globally, …

We are committed to supporting a woman’s right to have an abortion using pills—on her own, when and where she wants.

People in crisis settings are at higher risk of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion—and urgently need access to safe abortion and contraception.

Men can play a crucial role—as partners, family members, community leaders and professionals—in expanding abortion access.