Each year, 25 million women and girls around the world have unsafe abortions. We’re working to bring that number to zero.

Ipas is the only international organization solely focused on expanding access to safe abortion and contraceptive care. Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, we work with partners to train abortion providers, connect women with vital information so they can access services, and to advocate for safe, legal abortion.

Our work is urgent

44,000 women and girls die each year from unsafe abortions, and millions more suffer serious, often permanent injuries. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Around the world, our programs strive to improve reproductive health services for women and girls, increase their access to these services, and expand their sexual and reproductive rights.

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Our impact in 2019

731,261

Women and girls received abortion care at Ipas-supported facilities

2,597,468

Contraceptive care methods—including postabortion and standalone—provided

389,000

Unsafe abortions we helped avert^*
* Modeled using Impact 2 (v4) Marie Stopes International 2016

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We’re dedicated to meeting the reproductive health needs of women and girls worldwide. Learn about our global results and read stories that highlight the importance of safe abortion in our 2019 Impact Report.

Abortion remains essential during the coronavirus outbreak

In times of crisis, we know that women and girls are often disproportionately affected. Sexual and reproductive health care may be neglected or difficult to access, and disrupted supply chains may reduce access to contraceptives and safe abortion supplies. All these factors can in turn drive more people to seek unsafe abortions.

Abortion care is a time-sensitive service that cannot be significantly deferred without profound consequences for women and their families. Ipas is working to ensure that pregnancy care, including abortion care, remains an essential health service during the coronavirus outbreak.

How the pandemic is impacting abortion care

GRACE TAMBATAMBA-CHIYABA, Ipas Zambia director

As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise in Zambia, visits to health facilities are being discouraged. This may lead to health providers not prioritizing sexual and reproductive health care, because of the perception that those services are not urgent or important.

Ipas Zambia is committed to ensuring that women and girls have access to sexual and reproductive health services and that provision of those services remains an important focus of the Ministry of Health agenda. We will be working as well to ensure that health workers—who are on the frontlines of the pandemic—receive all the support they need to provide these services.
GRACE TAMBATAMBA-CHIYABA, Ipas Zambia director

More on how the pandemic is impacting abortion care

Climate change will affect everything

Ipas President and CEO Anu Kumar and colleague Tanvi Monga explain why women and girls will be disproportionately affected by climate change—and what we can do about it.

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Ipas is happy to be included on Charity Navigator’s list of highly rated charities promoting women’s health, education, rights and social services—a list compiled for Women’s History Month.

Abortion self-care is health care. Ipas is committed to supporting a woman’s right to have an abortion using pills on her own, when and where she wants. Learn more.

‘Everyone is welcome at my hospital’

Dr. Georgina Díaz Orozco is a doctor and Ipas-trained abortion provider in Guadalajara, Mexico—and one of the few providers in Jalisco state to offer abortion care after the first trimester. “It is very important that people have access to this care,” she says.

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We’ve learned that when we work to empower women, we need to include men in the process if we want to see real change. Watch Krishna Pingua, a youth leader in India, talk about his passion for sharing sexual and reproductive health information with other men in his community—and read about how he and other young men are making a difference.