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

March 10, 2014

New guidance for evidence-based safe abortion care

The
World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new, online document to
assist health professionals in the provision of evidence-based safe
abortion care. The Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion is a companion to the 2012 edition of WHO’s Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems.

“The handbook will be useful to a range of providers in different
settings and varying legal and health service contexts,” says Dr. Monica
Dragoman of the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research.
“It distills clinical recommendations from the 2012 guidance into a
quick reference for key elements of evidence-based practice.”

The handbook covers clinical care from pre-abortion evaluation to
postabortion contraception and indications for follow-up. Drug regimens
for first- and second-trimester medical abortion, pain management
strategies and a review of aspiration abortion are also summarized.

Download the handbook.

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