This factsheet provides an overview of the Helms Amendment and how it harms the world’s most vulnerable women by denying them access to safe abortion services.
This memo summarizes key findings from an online survey among 800 registered voters nationwide conducted by Hart Research on behalf of Ipas.
Medical abortion at or after 13 weeks gestation (‘second trimester’) and Postabortion care at or after 13 weeks gestation (‘second trimester’) each provide up-to-date clinical information, activities and learning materials for trainers.
When talking about the Helms Amendment and U.S. foreign assistance for safe abortion, these key messages are simple and represent what voters feel, according to 2020 polling results.
Ce guide a été conçu à l’usage des activistes qui souhaitent agir et défendre l’extension de l’accès aux soins d’avortement sécurisé dans leur pays. Il vous aidera, vous et vos collègues, à développer une stratégie s’appuyant sur les considérations uniques du plaidoyer en faveur de l’avortement. Il est conseillé de suivre pas à pas les étapes du guide avec un groupe restreint de parties prenantes déterminées à travailler ensemble pour étendre l’accès aux soins d’avortement sécurisé. Même s’il s’agit d’une introduction destinée à ceux qui débutent comme défenseurs de l’avortement, ce guide est également une source d’informations et de références utiles pour les activistes qui ont davantage d’expérience.
Ce guide de facilitation accompagne La base du changement : Un guide par étape sur le plaidoyer pour l’accès à l’avortement sécurisé qu’Ipas a publié en 2018. Le guide sur le plaidoyer, La base du changement, a été élaboré pour apporter de l’aide aux défenseurs nationaux qui souhaitent s’impliquer directement dans le plaidoyer en faveur d’un accès plus étendu aux soins d’avortement sécurisé dans leur pays.
L’échelle d’auto-efficacité par rapport à l’avortement (Abortion Self-Efficacy Scale, ASES) est un outil composé de 15 items conçu pour mesurer l’auto-efficacité par rapport à l’avortement au niveau personnel et communautaire. L’outil peut être utilisé dans le cadre d’une recherche formative pour éclairer la conception, le contenu et la formulation des messages d’interventions visant à accroître l’auto-efficacité en matière d’avortement. Il peut également être utilisé pour mesurer les changements au fil du temps dans l’auto-efficacité par rapport à l’avortement. De plus, les scores ASES peuvent être utilisés pour comprendre les facteurs associés à l’auto-efficacité par rapport à l’avortement.
This situational assessment, conducted by Ipas in collaboration with international and in-country agencies in March-May 2015, looks at comprehensive abortion care (CAC) needs and opportunities in francophone West Africa. It concludes there are clear and promising opportunities to expand CAC services to the women who need them and are entitled to them by law, despite the cultural, religious and political opposition to CAC that remains strong in some settings. It also offers specific recommendations in support of implementing CAC programs in francophone West Africa.
A set of guides and related resources providing up-to-date clinical information, activities and learning materials for trainers to use in helping health-care workers acquire the appropriate knowledge, attitudes and practical skills they need to provide first-trimester medical abortion.
Esta guía está dirigida a promotores interesados en apoyar mayor acceso a los servicios de aborto seguro en su país. Les ayudará a usted y a sus colegas a formular una estrategia que tenga en cuenta las consideraciones únicas para actividades de promoción y defensa (advocacy) relacionadas con el aborto. Se recomienda que utilice esta guía en colaboración con un pequeño grupo de partes interesadas comprometidas a trabajar de manera conjunta para ampliar el acceso a los servicios de aborto seguro. Aunque esta guía es una introducción dirigida a las personas que están comenzando su trabajo de advocacy por el aborto, también es un recurso útil para promotores con experiencia.
Este guia destina-se a defensores interessados em apoiar a expansão do acesso a serviços de aborto seguro nos seus países e ajudará você e seus colegas a desenvolverem uma estratégia que toma em conta as considerações exclusivas para a defesa de direitos relacionados ao aborto. Pretende-se que você trabalhe com este guia juntamente com um pequeno grupo de intervenientes que estão comprometidos em trabalhar em conjunto na expansão do acesso a serviços de aborto seguro.
Embora este guia seja uma cartilha para aqueles que podem ser novos na defesa do aborto, também é um recurso útil para defensores mais experientes.
This study sought to determine the proportion of women presenting for an induced abortion in Ghana who could use a gestational wheel to determine if they had reached at least 13 weeks or fewer than 13 weeks of pregnancy accurately.
Given the overall safety profile and increasing availability of medical pregnancy termination drugs, we asked: would the mifepristone–misoprostol regimen for medical termination at ≤10 weeks of gestation meet US Food and Drug Administration regulatory criteria for over-the-counter (OTC) approval, and if not, what are the present research gaps?
For women in India, access to abortion has been marred by extreme stigma, lack of awareness about its legality, unavailability of safe services near the community, and high costs charged by providers. Unsafe abortion practices were the third largest contributor of maternal deaths in India. However, over the last decade, women who cannot access safe and legal services have moved to self-use of medical abortion (abortion with pills) — perhaps a better option than resorting to life-threatening means.
This study explored women’s experiences accessing services and estimate costs incurred for first-trimester abortion at four public hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Despite the availability of government assistance for children through South Africa’s “child grant,” the affordability of raising a child was a major concern for women. Although theoretically available free of charge in the public sector, women experienced challenges accessing abortion services and incurred costs which may have been burdensome given average local earnings. These potential barriers could be addressed by reducing the number of required visits and improving availability of pregnancy tests and supplies in public facilities.