The Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), in partnership with Ipas Africa Alliance, held a regional exchange learning webinar on 25 August 2021, hosted by the Africa Coalition for Safe Abortion (ACSA). ACSA is a broad-based coalition of regional health and human rights civil society organizations that are committed to advocate for access to safe and legal abortion services in line with the Maputo Protocol. This one-page fact sheet outlines the discussion and actions taken during the learning exchange.
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Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Access to Safe Abortion in Nigeria
Sexual and reproductive health care is often neglected or difficult to access during a crisis, and this can in turn drive more people to seek unsafe abortions that risk their health and lives. For these reasons, Ipas Nigeria conducted a study to understand the impact of Nigeria’s COVID-19 lockdowns on access to safe abortion. Overall, study findings show that the lockdowns exacerbated the pandemic’s impact on women’s access to safe abortion services.
The Potential of Self-Managed Abortion to Expand Abortion Access in Humanitarian Contexts
Raízes da Mudança: Guia de Facilitação
Comment interrompre une grossesse à l’aide de comprimés
Como fazer um aborto com pílulas
Self-managed abortion: Barriers and opportunities
Abortion Service Quality Initiative
The Power of Local: How Ipas’s grantmaking to community-based groups is expanding abortion access
Disability inclusion in reproductive health programs: An orientation and values clarification toolkit
This toolkit provides all the resources needed to plan workshops for organizations that want to build a disability inclusion mindset among their staff and partners who work on abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights programs.
Cómo tener un aborto con pastillas
Esta guía ayuda a las mujeres a saber si pueden usar pastillas de aborto para interrumpir un embarazo, cómo usarlas y cómo saber si funcionaron.
How to buy abortion pills that are safe and effective
Abortion with pills is a safe and effective way to end a pregnancy, but you must use the right medications. There are many counterfeit and poor-quality abortion pills available. Here are 10 common questions and answers to help you find the right pills.
Transformação de atitudes em relação ao aborto: um kit de ferramentas de clarificação de valores para contextos humanitários.
O aborto por profissionais treinados é um procedimento seguro e comum, legal sob pelo menos uma condição em quase todos os países do mundo. No entanto, mulheres e meninas que vivem em ambientes humanitários muitas vezes não podem obter este serviço essencial de saúde reprodutiva – mesmo quando está disponível para outras mulheres em um país que acolhe refugiados.
How to have an abortion with pills
This guide helps women know if they can use abortion pills to end an unwanted pregnancy, how to use the pills, and how to know if they worked.
Expanding political support for abortion access and rights: Global lessons for advocates
Advocating for abortion access is unlike advocacy on any other global health-care issue. This publication shares insights and lessons learned by Ipas staff and our partners around the world through decades of advocacy work to expand abortion access. The content outlines key obstacles and opportunities that advocates encounter, plus strategies for overcoming common challenges.
Medication Abortion Self-Care: A guide for community accompaniment to support women
This guide includes basic information on medication abortion (abortion with pills) and was developed to help community members trained in accompaniment to support women with safe options in their abortion care. The term “accompaniment” refers to any support offered a woman during her entire experience of considering, seeking and engaging in abortion self-care.
Ipas 2020 Impact Report: Abortion is essential health care
We believe in a world where every person can determine their own future. In our 2020 Impact Report, learn about Ipas’s global results and our vital work to protect and expand abortion access during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vers un écosystème durable de l’avortement : Un cadre pour la conception, l’action et l’évaluation des programmes
Que des individus se trouvent dans l’incapacité d’interrompre une grossesse non désirée en toute confiance et en toute sécurité est un défi qui perdure encore aujourd’hui pour garantir l’accès universel aux soins complets de santé sexuelle et reproductive.
Hacia un ecosistema sostenible del aborto: marco para el diseño, la acción y la evaluación de programas
Un reto continuo para garantizar acceso universal a los servicios de atención integral a la salud sexual y reproductiva es la incapacidad de las personas para interrumpir un embarazo no deseado con confianza y seguridad.
Improving Access to Abortion in Crisis Settings: A legal risk management tool for organizations and providers
This tool is designed to help program planners and organizations understand abortion law and manage legal risk when providing or supporting access to abortion for people who are displaced by crisis. It provides general guidance and can be used online or in-person and with program teams, field teams, program managers and other decision-makers. It can also be incorporated in risk- and security-assessment processes.