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This guide is a resource for future health professionals who want to learn about and engage in abortion issues. Abortion is a critical but often neglected area of women’s rights, women’s health and health science education. The guide was developed for health sciences students—including students in medicine, nursing, midwifery, pharmacology, public health and other related fields—and can be adapted for other audiences too.
This factsheet shares findings from a study conducted by Ipas and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) that finds abortion content is limited or missing in most medical schools in the world.
Recommendations and dosing recommendations for use of prophylactic antibiotics in safe abortion care.
Organized in four parts, this training manual aims to foster an advocacy perspective in health-care providers who are involved in delivering abortion and/or postabortion care. The manual will help providers recognize their personal power as advocates and identify different circumstances and means to advocate for comprehensive abortion care to the full limits of the law.
This illustrated wallchart presents a clear, easy-to-read, 10-step guide to performing uterine evacuation using the Ipas MVA Plus® and Ipas EasyGrip® cannulae.
This wallchart outlines the steps for correctly processing and cleaning the Ipas MVA Plus and Ipas EasyGrip cannulae.
Cette boîte à outil est destinée aux défenseurs de l’avortement qui veulent soutenir l’intégration de l’avortement aux programmes d’éducation complète à la sexualité (ECS). Y sont traitées les principaux points à prendre en considération lorsqu’on souhaite défendre l’ECS et des outils sont proposés qui permettent d’aider les défenseurs à développer une stratégie et un plan d’activités adaptés à leur contexte national.
Yukti Yojana – A Public Private Partnership for Expanding Availability of Safe Abortion Services in Bihar, featured in the compendium of successful projects in the field of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health that was launched in a conference ‘Sharing of Best Practices: Improving Maternal, New Born and Child Health in India’. The conference was jointly organised by FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre of Excellence and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals’ CSR arm Glenmark Foundation on March 28, 2018 in New Delhi.
This policy brief has been developed in consultation with experts in India after a careful review of the Indian context and mapping it with the WHO Guidelines on ‘Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception’ released in 2015. The policy brief highlights legal and policy recommendations for strengthening women’s access to comprehensive abortion care in India.
This reference guide provides information and recommendations based on evidence for dilatation and evacuation (D&E), a form of abortion that utilizes a combination of specialized forceps and vacuum aspiration to evacuate the uterus at or after 13 weeks gestation, for women who need either induced abortion, treatment of incomplete abortion or postabortion care.
This reference guide provides information and recommendations based on evidence for medical abortion at or after 13 weeks gestation, sometimes called induction abortion or termination in the second trimester, using misoprostol-based regimens (mifepristone plus misoprostol or misoprostol only) for women who need either induced abortion, treatment of incomplete abortion or postabortion care.
A calculadora de AMIU é uma ferramenta para os gestores de aquisições e distribuidores das unidades sanitárias que calculam o número de aspiradores de aspiração manual intra-uterina (AMIU) que deve ser mantido em stock nas unidades sanitárias. Ao usar dados das unidades sanitárias, a calculadora de AMIU estimará a quantidade apropriada de aspiradores Ipas AMIU Plus® e Válvula Simples para satisfazer a demanda. A calculadora usa uma metodologia de previsão baseada em estatÃsticas e desenvolvida por John Snow, Inc., de acordo com o número médio de casos e factor de reuso de instrumentos Ipas AMIU de 25.
Le calculateur d’AMIU est destiné aux distributeurs et responsables de l’approvisionnement des institutions de santé qui doivent calculer le nombre d’aspirateurs manuels intra-utérins (AMIU) qu’il est nécessaire de conserver en stock dans chaque institution de santé. En fonction des données de l’institution, le calculateur d’AMIU d’Ipas estimera les quantités appropriées d’aspirateurs Ipas AMIU Plus et d’aspirateurs à valve unique correspondant au volume de travail. Il utilise une méthode de prévision statistique développée par John Snow, Inc., fondée sur un volume de travail quotidien moyen, et un facteur de réutilisation des instruments d’AMIU de 25.
La calculadora de AMEU es para gerentes y distribuidores de insumos para unidades de salud quienes calculan la cantidad de aspiradores de aspiración manual endouterina (AMEU) que se deben mantener en el inventario de cada unidad de salud. Utilizando los datos de su unidad de salud, la calculadora Ipas de AMEU estimará las cantidades necesarias de aspiradores Ipas AMEU Plus y aspiradores de válvula sencilla para cubrir la demanda esperada. Utiliza la metodologÃa estadÃstica de estimación elaborada por John Snow, Inc., la cual toma en cuenta su demanda diaria promedio y un factor de uso del instrumental Ipas de AMEU de 25.
The MVA calculator is for health facility supply managers and distributors who calculate the number of manual vacuum aspirators (MVA) to keep in stock in health facilities. Using facility data, the Ipas MVA calculator will estimate appropriate quantities of Ipas MVA Plus® and Single-Valve aspirators to meet expected caseload. It uses a statistically based forecasting methodology developed by John Snow, Inc., based on average daily caseload and reuse factor for Ipas MVA instruments of 25.
IpasUniversity, or IpasU, is your gateway to learning about safe abortion and postabortion care. Courses in English and Spanish are designed for clinicians and other professionals who work in reproductive health programming.
The Helms amendment is a law barring U.S. foreign assistance from being used for abortion services. This fact sheet describes the negative impact of the Helms amendment on women in Kenya, where abortion is legal under certain circumstances.
This fact sheet summarizes the work and scope of the World Health Organization (WHO); details efforts by the Trump administration and anti-rights allies to defund the agency prior to the coronavirus outbreak; and provides recommendations for the U.S. Congress to protect the work of the agency and other international organizations.