The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), in partnership with Ipas Africa Alliance, held a regional exchange learning webinar on 25 August 2021, hosted by the Africa Coalition for Safe Abortion (ACSA). ACSA is a broad-based coalition of regional health and human rights civil society organizations that are committed to advocate for access to safe and legal abortion services in line with the Maputo Protocol. This one-page fact sheet outlines the discussion and actions taken during the learning exchange.

Sexual and reproductive health care is often neglected or difficult to access during a crisis, and this can in turn drive more people to seek unsafe abortions that risk their health and lives. For these reasons, Ipas Nigeria conducted a study to understand the impact of Nigeria’s COVID-19 lockdowns on access to safe abortion. Overall, study findings show that the lockdowns exacerbated the pandemic’s impact on women’s access to safe abortion services.

Refugees and displaced people face uniquely challenging barriers to abortion access, including the collapse of health systems, statelessness, and a lack of prioritization of sexual and reproductive health services by humanitarian agencies. In this commentary published in Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, the authors summarize the evidence around abortion access in humanitarian contexts, and highlight the opportunities for interventions that could increase knowledge and support around self-managed abortion.

Este guia de facilitação é um complemento para Raízes da mudança: um guia de advocaci_a passo a passo para expandir o acesso a o aborto seguro, publicado pelo Ipas em 2018.

This research is being conducted by Ipas in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, the Guttmacher Institute and Epicentre, and is funded by Elrha/R2HC.

In Nigeria, where abortion is highly restricted and access to services is limited, more and more people are self-managing their abortions after going to patent medicine vendors (PMVs) for abortion information and pills.

Ipas Indonesia is using the momentum of new national guidelines on postabortion care to “shift the paradigm” on women’s reproductive health in the country.

Ce guide aide les femmes à déterminer si elles peuvent utiliser des comprimés d’avortement pour interrompre une grossesse non désirée, leur indique comment les utiliser et comment vérifier s’ils ont fonctionné.

Este guia ajuda as mulheres a saber se podem usar pílulas de aborto para interromper uma gravidez indesejada, como usar as pílulas e como saber se funcionaram.