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Why advocates and policymakers should be concerned, and what can be done

These learning briefs – a project anchor brief, a user-focused brief, and a pharmacist-focused brief – summarize lessons learned by the PMAC project during multiple phases of the project.

The Abortion Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Intentions (KAPI) Survey with optional add-on supplements, developed by Ipas, is a comprehensive resource designed to assess and enhance community understanding, attitudes and support around abortion care.

Our research shows how people and the health system in Samburu County, Kenya, are impacted in numerous ways by the climate crisis—and articulates how healthy people and communities are more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Referral Hospital in Jigawa State, a fragile setting–Results of the AMoCo study

Download PDF view on BMC The Geneva Consensus Declaration in Action In humanitarian contexts, where abortion complications are a leading cause of maternal mortality, providing quality post-abortion care (PAC) is an important part of needed services. Th …

This report focuses on the damage Project 2025 would have on overseas development assistance and international cooperation.

These two learning products – a project brief and a technical brief – describe the Ipas Development Foundation’s work to increase contraceptive uptake and continuation after self-managed medical abortion.

These three learning products — a market systems development plan (MSDP) overview, a workshop event summary, and a low fidelity process infographic — document our project’s efforts to understand, describe, and enhance the post-medication abortion contraceptive market in Pakistan

The Received Social Support Scale (R3S) is a 9-item tool designed to measure social support received by people seeking abortion care.

Resource downloads: Market Analysis Report Workshop Dissemination Summary PMAC Strategy Deck  The Post-Medication Abortion Contraception (PMAC) Market in Kenya: A Thriving Landscape Awaiting Exploration These three learning products — a market analysis …

Child marriage, teenage pregnancy and school dropout are intricately linked and present serious, interrelated challenges for girls globally—and in Africa. An effec­tive, holistic framework to use in addressing these challenges is the “CTS nexus,” which refers to the connections and interactions between child marriage, teen pregnancy and school dropout.

In this report, we are proud to share some of the key impacts of our work in 2023. 

Piloted in Guatemala in 2023 and formally launched in Uganda in February 2024, Protego is a threat to existing international human rights frameworks.

This executive summary provides an overview of findings from a forthcoming 2024 report, Mission Creep: Expanding Attacks on Gender Threaten the United Nations. It provides key findings and recommendations as to how feminist activists, government representatives, and UN officials can prepare an intersectional human rights response that is cross-cutting, bold, and prepared to defend the universality of human rights.

Resource downloads: Learning Brief #1 Learning Brief #2 Infographic Post Medication Abortion Contraception (PMAC) Project Kenya These learning products—two emerging learning briefs and a final intervention package infographic—describe Ipas’s work to in …

This evaluation report details the 2022 performance evaluation of the “Humanitarian Response Program” implemented in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh by Ipas. The evaluation assessed facility readiness and capacity of the service providers to provide comprehensive menstrual regulation (MR), post abortion care (PAC), contraceptive services and trauma/survival centered care. This evaluation also documents relevant challenges and barriers faced during program implementation and provides recommendations for the program’s sustainability and future scale-up.

As Actualizações clínicas em saúde reprodutiva foram concebidas para fornecer ao pessoal do Ipas, formadores, parceiros e outros provedores de serviços de saúde acesso a recomendações actualizadas e baseadas na evidência. Em geral, as recomendações são as mesmas que aquelas na edição de 2012 do guia da Organização Mundial da Saúde titulado Abortamento seguro: orientação técnica e de políticas para sistemas de saúde, Segunda edição. Em casos excepcionais, as recomendações foram modificadas de acordo com os contextos em que trabalhamos. Além disso, se houver evidência mais actualizada para informar as recomendações, estas serão actualizadas aqui.

Actualités cliniques dans le domaine de la santé reproductive vise à permettre aux membres du personnel d’Ipas, aux formateurs, à nos partenaires et aux autres professionnels de santé d’avoir accès aux recommandations basées sur des éléments factuels les plus récentes.

This article describes the pathways to care for women with severe abortion-related near miss events in a fragile context.