This dosage card serves as a quick reference guide for health-care providers who are administering medical abortion.
Protocols for medical abortion [dosage card]
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Abortion attitude transformation: A values clarification toolkit for global audiences
This toolkit is a resource for trainers, program managers and technical advisors who organize or facilitate training events and advocacy workshops in the field of sexual and reproductive health. It provides experienced trainers with the background information, materials, instructions, and tips necessary to effectively facilitate abortion values clarification and attitude transformation interventions.
What You Need to Know About Abortion Restrictions on U.S. Global Health Assistance
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.
Who can provide abortion care? Considerations for law and policy makers.
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.
Roots of Change: A step-by-step advocacy guide for expanding access to safe abortion
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.
Abortion attitude transformation: Values clarification activities adapted for young women
This publication supplements Abortion care for young women: A training toolkit (Ipas, 2013). It modifies six values clarification and attitude transformation activities to focus specifically on young women and abortion.
Roots of Change: a step-by-step guide for expanding access to safe abortion – EXCERPT
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.
Abortion Attitude Transformation: A values clarification toolkit for disability inclusion
This toolkit is a resource for facilitators, program managers and technical advisors who organize or facilitate workshops in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights and who want to advance programming on safe abortion care for women and girls with disabilities.
Paracervical Block Technique
This job aid provides clinicians with step-by-step instructions for performing a paracervical block.
Mifepristone/Misoprostol Gestational Dating Wheels
Tool for assessing gestational age for medical abortion.
Effective training in reproductive health: Course design and delivery. Reference manual.
This manual is intended for use in training-of-trainers courses.
The impact on young women when abortion is a crime
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.
Toward a Sustainable Abortion Ecosystem: A framework for program design, action and evaluation
A continuing challenge in ensuring universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care is the inability of individuals to confidently and safely terminate an unwanted pregnancy. This framework for sustainable...
Woman-Centered, Comprehensive Abortion Care Reference Manual, Second Edition
This manual provides guidance to health-care personnel on improving the quality of care available to women seeking uterine evacuation services.
Youth act for safe abortion: A training guide for future health professionals
This guide is a resource for future health professionals who want to learn about and engage in abortion issues. Abortion is a critical but often neglected area of women’s rights, women’s health and health science education. The guide was developed for health sciences students—including students in medicine, nursing, midwifery, pharmacology, public health and other related fields—and can be adapted for other audiences too.
Most medical students want training in abortion care—but schools don’t provide it
This factsheet shares findings from a study conducted by Ipas and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) that finds abortion content is limited or missing in most medical schools in the world.
Recommendations for use of prophylactic antibiotics in safe abortion care (card)
Recommendations and dosing recommendations for use of prophylactic antibiotics in safe abortion care.
Providers as advocates for safe abortion care: A training manual
Organized in four parts, this training manual aims to foster an advocacy perspective in health-care providers who are involved in delivering abortion and/or postabortion care. The manual will help providers recognize their personal power as advocates and identify different circumstances and means to advocate for comprehensive abortion care to the full limits of the law.
Making change happen: A review of progressive abortion policy change in Africa
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.
Steps for performing manual vacuum aspiration using the Ipas MVA Plus® and EasyGrip® cannulae
This illustrated wallchart presents a clear, easy-to-read, 10-step guide to performing uterine evacuation using the Ipas MVA Plus® and Ipas EasyGrip® cannulae.