Ensuring high-quality abortion care

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Making high-quality abortion care a priority—even in the world’s most remote regions

No matter where they live, women and girls—and all people who can get pregnant— should have access to the highest possible quality of abortion and contraceptive care.

To ensure high-quality abortion care, we train doctors, midwives and nurses to safely and respectfully perform abortions and provide counseling on contraceptive options. We equip health facilities, provide clinical guidance and help keep clinics stocked with necessary supplies. We also work to expand women’s right and ability to self-manage an abortion with pills.

These are Ipas’s areas of expertise, and we draw on decades of experience helping countries improve their health systems’ ability to provide accessible abortion care.

Our impact

In 2022, we helped health systems expand abortion access

health workers trained

At Ipas-supported health facilities:

people received abortion services

people received contraception

Midwives and Lady Health Visitors practice using IEC materials in Pinlaung, Myanmar.
Midwives and Lady Health Visitors practice using IEC materials in Pinlaung, Myanmar. © Ipas Myanmar

Abortion Service Quality Initiative

Ipas, Ibis Reproductive Health, and Metrics for Management are collaborating to develop a global standard for measuring the quality of abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, for abortions occurring both in and out of health-care facilities.

The Abortion Service Quality Initiative, launched in 2018, aims to develop a common set of measures that prioritize the needs, preferences and experiences of people seeking abortion in order to evaluate the quality of care. Read the fact sheets on this initiative and progress to date:  Abortion Metrics Matter and Measuring Abortion Service Quality.

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Our free online training for sexual and reproductive health professionals just got better.

We’ve added the latest evidence—plus lessons learned from health professionals globally—to our 2023 clinical recommendations on comprehensive abortion care.

Putting women at the center

Ipas Chief Scientific and Technical Officer Kathryn Andersen explains why woman-centered training for abortion providers is so important.

Read on WomenDeliver.org

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