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This publication, created by Ipas and the Center for Reproductive Rights, is designed to help individuals and groups consider the potential impact of abortion regulations and offer tools to help assess legal risk when supporting access to self-managed abortion.
Watch on Facebook Ipas Impact Report 2020-2021 A virtual conversation about recognizing and dismantling the white supremacy and anti-rights opposition movement and its connections with reproductive justice. Following the insurrection at the U.S. Capito …
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.
Download File in English en français em portugues Ipas Impact Report 2020-2021 Abogar por el acceso al aborto es diferente a la abogacÃa en cualquier otro tema de atención médica global. Esta publicación comparte conocimientos y lecciones aprendidas po …
A thought-provoking conversation between Ipas President and CEO Anu Kumar and award-winning author, advocate, professor and social commentator Michele Goodwin.
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.
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.
Refugees and displaced people face uniquely challenging barriers to abortion access, including the collapse of health systems, statelessness, and a lack of prioritization of sexual and reproductive health services by humanitarian agencies. In this commentary published in Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, the authors summarize the evidence around abortion access in humanitarian contexts, and highlight the opportunities for interventions that could increase knowledge and support around self-managed abortion.
Este guia de facilitação é um complemento para RaÃzes da mudança: um guia de advocaci_a passo a passo para expandir o acesso a o aborto seguro, publicado pelo Ipas em 2018.
Ce guide aide les femmes à déterminer si elles peuvent utiliser des comprimés d’avortement pour interrompre une grossesse non désirée, leur indique comment les utiliser et comment vérifier s’ils ont fonctionné.
Este guia ajuda as mulheres a saber se podem usar pÃlulas de aborto para interromper uma gravidez indesejada, como usar as pÃlulas e como saber se funcionaram.
Download File Ipas Impact Report 2020-2021 This factsheet describes a study in East Africa to explore and document refugee and displaced women’s experiences with abortion in humanitarian settings, to inform the development of interventions, guide polic …
These two fact sheets—Measuring Abortion Service Quality and Abortion Metrics Matter— describe the Abortion Service Quality Initiative’s work to develop a set of common, reliable and evidenced-based metrics to evaluate the quality of abortion care.
Watch the recording Ipas Impact Report 2020-2021 This webinar features three community-based organizations—in Argentina, Uganda and Indonesia—that have partnered with Ipas to make change. Speakers share their organizations’ unique approaches to expandi …
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.
Esta guÃa ayuda a las mujeres a saber si pueden usar pastillas de aborto para interrumpir un embarazo, cómo usarlas y cómo saber si funcionaron.
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.
O aborto por profissionais treinados é um procedimento seguro e comum, legal sob pelo menos uma condição em quase todos os paÃses 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 disponÃvel para outras mulheres em um paÃs que acolhe refugiados.