Ensuring high-quality abortion care

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Midwives in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) participated in the family planning training as part of Ipas Indonesia’s TAKENUSA program. Read more

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 2024, we helped health systems expand abortion access

access points supported by Ipas

At Ipas-supported health facilities:

people received abortion services

people received contraception

Two women in hijabs and gloves are focused on a medical procedure in a clinic. One is holding a piece of medical equipment, and they appear to be working together in a clinical setting.

Maryam Ado Abdullahi (left), Director of Primary Healthcare at Kutai Primary Health Care Center, in the Jigawa State, Nigeria participated in Ipas’s on-the-job training (OJT) and now trains other health workers on safe postabortion care. © Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation

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.

Abortion Care Quality (ACQ) Tool

The first ever global standard for measuring the quality of abortion services in low- and middle-income countries is here.

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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.

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