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Ipas conducts policy- and program-relevant research on abortion in collaboration with diverse global, regional, national and local partners. We generate new knowledge for the larger reproductive health and rights community.
Accelerating contraceptive uptake through post-pregnancy care models Background Abortion self-care—an abortion with pills obtained without a prescription—is becoming more common globally. But little is known about access to postabortion contraception f …
Abortion Service Quality (ASQ) Initiative Background Ipas, Ibis Reproductive Health, and Metrics for Management are collaborating to develop a global standard for measuring the quality of abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, for abort …
Home 9 Search Results A prospective, comparative study of clinical outcomes following clinic-based versus self-use of medical abortion using mifepristone with misoprostol Background Medabon, a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol, is used f …
Gender-based violence puts women and girls at higher risk for unwanted pregnancy, and survivors require specially tailored care that includes access to emergency contraception and abortion.
Women and girls—and all people who can get pregnant—can’t determine their own futures without laws and policies that support access to abortion and contraception.
No matter where they live, women and girls—and all people who can get pregnant— should have access to the highest possible quality of abortion and contraceptive care.
Stigma shames and silences women who seek abortions—plus their health-care providers and anyone associated with abortion—and it contributes greatly to the incidence of unsafe abortion.
Home 9 Search Results Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programs have a positive impact on young people’s sexual and reproductive health—and their ability to make safe and informed decisions. But the topic of abortion remains absent from mos …
Home 9 Search Results Maryam Abdulahi (left) participated in Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation’s on-the-job training (OJT) and now trains other health workers on safe postabortion care at the Kutai Primary Health Care Center, Jigawa State. Globally, …
We are committed to supporting a woman’s right to have an abortion using pills—on her own, when and where she wants.
People in crisis settings are at higher risk of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion—and urgently need access to safe abortion and contraception.
Men can play a crucial role—as partners, family members, community leaders and professionals—in expanding abortion access.
Home 9 Search Results Abortion access in Mexico is expanding as a growing advocacy movement gains traction. In 2007, Mexico City passed landmark legislation to make abortion legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Between 2019-2021, the stat …
Home 9 Search Results Abortion restrictions in Chile loosened in 2017, and abortion is now legally available in cases of rape, fetal malformation and risk to a woman’s life. Still, real access to legal abortion care remains limited due to a lack o …
Home 9 Search Results In Central America, Ipas works in one of the most restrictive legal environments for abortion in the world. Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have complete abortion bans; in El Salvador, women are imprisoned for suspected a …
Home 9 Search Results Abortion is only legal in Bolivia in cases of rape, incest and immediate risk to a woman’s health or life. Consequently, unsafe abortion is the third leading cause of maternal death, and an estimated 185 women undergo clandes …
Home 9 Search Results Ipas works in Argentina to reduce preventable injury and death from unsafe abortion. It is estimated that, each year, unsafe abortion accounts for 18% of pregnancy-related deaths and more than 50,000 preventable hospitalizati …
Ipas Nepal works closely with the Ministry of Health and Population to improve the quality of safe abortion services and women’s ability to access them. Programs include training abortion providers, supporting health centers’ efforts to improve quality of care, training young people to be peer educators in sexual and reproductive health and rights, and helping train and support female community health volunteers who reach women in their communities with pregnancy tests and referrals for safe abortion.