Our impact in 2024

Together, we expanded reproductive freedom

At more than 16,000 Ipas-supported health access points across 23 countries, the support of our donors and partners enabled more than 2.2 million people to access abortion or contraception in 2024.

Thank you!

Together, we stand against unprecedented challenges, and together we will ensure people have the right to make fundamental decisions about their own bodies and health.

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“I was born in a war season and grew up in a war season. My story is one shared by millions in my home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where years of conflict and recent intensified fighting have forced countless people into overcrowded displacement camps.

For women and girls in these camps, access to contraception, emergency contraception, abortion, and care for sexual violence is critical and lifesaving. That’s why Ipas DRC has set up mobile health clinics in some camps to deliver essential reproductive health services where they’re needed most.

My motivation for doing this work is simple: When I see a woman suffering, I see myself suffering.”

— Dr. Celestine Buyibuyi, community engagement advisor for Ipas DRC. See what a typical day for Dr. Celestine looks like.

“We are seeing the deadly result of abortion bans in Georgia and around the country. That is why this resolution is important: it affirms that reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right according to the United States’ own law, and that state abortion bans are violating federal law and endangering the lives of women.”

— United States Representative Nikema Williams of Georgia, as she introduced a resolution to the U.S. Congress condemning the criminalization of abortion in the U.S. The resolution urged governments at all levels—federal, state and local—to uphold abortion as a human right. Ipas helped spearhead the resolution, alongside its U.S. partners.

“I feel very reassured and heard when I use Te Acompaño [chatbot]. It reassures us that, as women, we’re free and fully entitled to choose what to do with our own bodies and to feel protected. The tools also are useful for having a safe abortion and making sure that our health is not at risk.”

— Elizabeth Martínez, a migrant from Honduras, crossed Mexico’s southern border looking to build a better life for her young children. There she learned of Ipas’s chatbot—Te Acompaño, which means “I accompany you” in Spanish—created especially to connect migrants with the reproductive health information and care they desperately need. Ipas worked with a broad array of partners and many migrants themselves to design this innovative web-based chatbot that’s expanding abortion access along the main migration routes in Mexico.

“Women need contraceptives and abortion care just as much as they need food and clean water during emergencies like floods.”

—Khusbu Poudel, Ipas Nepal’s program coordinator for climate justice, gender, and sexual and reproductive health and rights, is helping build climate-resilient health systems in a variety of ways. She and her teammates have constructed strategically located health facilities so women can still access reproductive health care after floods or landslides. And the team has so far supported 10 local governments to create climate change adaptation plans that address the need for accessible reproductive health care.

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