The Americas Archives

February 28, 2018

Fatima’s story

February 27, 2018

Improving contraceptive choice and access for young women in Kenya

February 21, 2018

Health systems need to do more to meet postabortion contraceptive needs of young women, study says

January 18, 2018

Updated UN sexuality education guidance expands abortion content

January 10, 2018

Study calls for more focus on women’s choices of postabortion contraceptives

January 4, 2018

One key to high-quality abortion care: post-training support for providers

December 18, 2017

Meet Bolivia’s champions for abortion rights

December 18, 2017

Behind the scenes of Bolivia’s historic abortion law change

December 15, 2017

Legal abortion access greatly expanded in Bolivia

December 14, 2017

Ipas and IRC partner to combat barriers to abortion care in crisis settings

Crisis settings

September 27, 2017

Reproductive health assistance for Rohingya refugees

September 22, 2017

Doctors as champions for abortion rights

September 22, 2017

Dr. Victoria Ramirez joins the call for legal abortion in El Salvador

September 7, 2017

Promising new evidence on the safe use of medical abortion by women and health volunteers

Can women accurately self-assess their eligibility for medical abortion? New research from Nepal indicates that, with some simple guidance, they can—a finding with broad implications for the growing question of how much medical oversight of the medical abortion process is needed.