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Let’s talk about what that really means By Anu Kumar, Ipas President and CEO Today is International Safe Abortion Day. Around the world, people are taking action to expand access to abortion—and raising awareness that abortion is essential health care. …
A thought-provoking conversation between Ipas President and CEO Anu Kumar and award-winning author, advocate, professor and social commentator Michele Goodwin.
L’effort audacieux pour coordonner et catalyser le mouvement en faveur de l’avortement sécurisé en Afrique francophone débute In English Rejoignant les actions du monde entier pour la Journée internationale pour l’avortement, le 28 septembre, cette sem …
A bold new effort to coordinate and catalyze the safe abortion movement across Francophone Africa is under way.
Protect everyone’s right to reproductive freedom For over 50 years, Ipas has supported communities around the world to ensure access to abortion and contraception for all. You can help us. Learn more about giving to Ipas -> See our impact in 2025 – …
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.
Ruling comes after years of advocacy by activists and organizations, including Ipas In a historic ruling that stands to expand reproductive rights across Mexico, the nation’s supreme court declared on Sept. 7 that laws criminalizing abortion are …
Among the hundreds of anti-abortion legal restrictions enacted in the United States in recent years—nearly 100 in 2021 alone—Texas Senate Bill 8 is the most draconian of all. It effectively bans abortion in the state, thereby reducing Roe v Wade into a …
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 Raízes da mudança: um guia de advocaci_a passo a passo para expandir o acesso a o aborto seguro, publicado pelo Ipas em 2018.
In Nigeria, where abortion is highly restricted and access to services is limited, more and more people are self-managing their abortions after going to patent medicine vendors (PMVs) for abortion information and pills.
Ipas Indonesia is using the momentum of new national guidelines on postabortion care to “shift the paradigm” on women’s reproductive health in the country.
Home 9 Search Results in English en español en français Como auto-administrar, de forma segura, um aborto usando pílulas O aborto com pílulas é uma forma segura e eficaz de interromper uma gravidez. Ele permite que a mulher administre sozinha o p …
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 pílulas de aborto para interromper uma gravidez indesejada, como usar as pílulas e como saber se funcionaram.
This study will document the abortion experiences of displaced women and girls with a focus on self-managed abortion and information access in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement (Uganda).
Download File Search Results 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 policy and programm …
A crucial vote for reproductive health, rights and justice
Representatives of seven youth groups from across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are joining forces to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortion care in accordance with the Maputo Protocol.