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The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade one year ago. Since then, millions of Americans have lost access to abortion. Ipas’s global network has also seen a ripple effect around the world, with impacts in many of the countries where we work.
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This evidence brief from the AMoCo study presents selected results of a knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors (KAPB) survey given to health professionals providing abortion-related care. Providers are critical to providing timely and high-quality comprehensive abortion care (CAC) that can decrease abortion-related complications. This survey aims not only to assess the KAPB of CAC providers in hospital settings but to identify provider-related barriers to adequate CAC and points for improvement in the provision and accessibility of CAC services.
Our free online training for sexual and reproductive health professionals just got better. Ipas University (IpasU) is a free online learning platform featuring interactive courses designed for practicing clinicians, clinicians in training, health-care …
New research shows why bisexual and pansexual youth need comprehensive sexuality education that meets their needs
Home 9 Search Results From invisible to indispensable: Resources for advocates and educators CSE as a human right Access to inclusive comprehensive sexuality education is an essential human right. There are international human rights mechanisms th …
Home 9 Search Results NEXT: Resources for advocates and educators From invisible to indispensable: Recommendations Our findings clearly and consistently point to recommendations that are relevant for a broad array of audiences–including youth educ …
Home 9 Search Results NEXT: See our Recommendations From invisible to indispensable: Our findings in detail 1.Unsatisfied with school-based CSE, youth seek information elsewhere–with mixed results. 2.Discrimination experiences are similar around t …
This April, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with Ipas Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officially launched a study on the “impact of the domestication of the Maputo Protocol in the Democratic Republic of Congo”. The study evaluates implement …
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As a devastating armed conflict forced thousands of displaced people to gather in camps outside Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Ipas DRC team knew sexual and reproductive health services that included abortion were desperately needed. In the spirit of their tagline, “Makoki ya Mwasi,” a Lingala term that loosely translates as “the rights of women,” Ipas DRC refused to let a lack of funding deter them. They only had enough resources for 10 days of services, but worked around the clock to launch a mobile clinic and make every second count for the women and girls who needed them.
Ipas Afrique Francophone and le Centre ODAS are proud to play a significant role alongside all the stakeholders of the safe abortion movement in Benin for the Beninese government to guarantee women’s rights and access to safe and legal abortion service …
New research shows why bisexual and pansexual youth need comprehensive sexuality education that meets their needs
Research on abortion complications in crisis settings has been limited to date, but a multi-year study by Ipas and partners is filling that gap—with initial findings pointing to the need to prioritize programs improving postabortion, safe abortion and …
The Abortion-related Morbidity and Mortality in Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (AMoCo) study is a multi-year research project to assess the magnitude and severity of abortion-related complications in hospitals located in fragile or conflict-affected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR) and Nigeria.
Through projects like a rap battle about gender-based violence, a sexual education game app, a short story contest and a podcast, Ipas Bolivia has been using creative storytelling and inventive methods of engagement to raise awareness of sexual and rep …
Home 9 Search Results What is values clarification? Given the central role that values play in our lives, it is important to understand how values form and how they affect our decision-making and behavior. Values clarification (VC) is both a theo …