About Us

We work with partners around the world to advance reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception.

Ipas Sustainable Abortion Care

Our Work

The global movement for legal, accessible abortion is growing. Our staff and partners in countries as diverse as Bolivia, Malawi and India are working to ensure all people can access high-quality abortion care.

Where We Work

The global movement for legal, accessible abortion is growing. Our staff and partners in countries as diverse as Bolivia, Malawi and India are working to ensure all people can access high-quality abortion care.

Resources

Our materials are designed to help reproductive health advocates and professionals expand access to high-quality abortion care.

For health professionals

For advocates and decisionmakers

Training
resources

For humanitarian settings

Abortion VCAT resources

For researchers and program implementors

COURTESY OF JOYPURHAT DISTRICT HOSPITAL

June 10, 2020

Canada announces support to Ipas to protect access to safe abortion and contraception during COVID-19 pandemic

The global coronavirus outbreak is a major threat to the health of women and girls globally and is anticipated to disproportionately affect low-resource settings where barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care already existed. Today, the government of Canada affirmed that the failure to meet women’s and girls’ urgent SRH needs, including abortion, is a denial of basic rights to health, autonomy, and gender equality.

Through rapid funding from Global Affairs Canada, Ipas will work in select countries in the global south to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by:

  • Providing personal protective equipment (PPE) and developing guidelines, training and support for providers to protect front line workers and preserve people’s confidence in health facilities as low risk places to go for essential care, including abortion
  • Streamlining abortion services to improve access to abortion care using innovations including abortion telemedicine, “no touch” and minimal visit abortion care, pharmacy access and accurate information to women who opt to self-manage abortion
  • Improving forecasting of abortion commodities and design strategies to address essential supply shortages, including PPE
  • Working with humanitarian organizations to strengthen “light touch” approaches like abortion with pills and self-managed abortion in humanitarian settings

For more information, contact [email protected].

 
Photo: At the Joypurhat District Hospital in Bangladesh, Ipas remotely managed the placement of handwashing basins in public areas for patients and visitors to use before entering and exiting to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.