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A recently released national report details a study highlighting gaps in Kenya’s sexual and reproductive health services—and gives compelling evidence that expanding access to modern and effective family planning and contraception is crucial to preventing unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortion methods.
Adolescents in Kenya stand at a critical crossroads, facing what has been aptly termed the “triple threat”: new HIV infections, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and teenage pregnancies.
Conducted by Ipas in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and the Association for Prevention of Septic Abortion, Bangladesh (BAPSA), this study protocol introduces a new method for more accurately measuring maternal deaths caused by abortion complications among forcibly displaced populations living in refugee camps.
view pdf Search Results Abortion restrictions are incompatible with international human rights law. The U.S. government’s failure to ensure the provision of safe, legal, and accessible health care, including abortion, violates its obligations to protec …
Girls and young women find power in information to secure their futures
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 We work for a more just world—a …
Period poverty remains a pressing challenge in Kenya, disproportionately affecting teenage girls in rural areas. Life Lifters Kenya, an Ipas Collaborative grantee, is tackling this issue head-on.
Home 9 Search Results Now I have nothing. When the rain falls, it just falls. The children end up wet. Poor women are most impacted by climate change. Before Cyclone Idai hit the port city of Beira, Mozambique, Fátima João had a house to live in w …
Home 9 Search Results I can’t keep getting pregnant. Climate crises deny women power over their own bodies. Laura Joaquim Amandio lost the roof of her house during Cyclone Idai. Since then, she and her husband have struggled to provide for their t …
Home 9 Search Results Women-led Climate Justice Climate change is one of the defining crises of our time, and people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are affected by this crisis. The effects of climate change amount to a global public h …
Get Involved! Double your impact The fight for reproductive justice may be challenging, particularly at this moment. But together we’ve made progress, and we will keep moving forward. For more than 50 years, Ipas has resisted and persisted in our work …
For 52 years, Ipas has supported communities around the world to ensure access to abortion and contraception for all. We have a deep history and experience working on abortion in places in the world with very restrictive laws, and with health systems t …
Across Nepal’s remote hills, sustainable change begins with women. Through the Natural Leaders program, Ipas Nepal trains local women to tackle two urgent, interconnected crises: climate change and barriers to reproductive health. These grassroots leaders educate, advocate and challenge harmful social norms—proving that when women lead, communities grow stronger, healthier and more resilient.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, access to comprehensive abortion care remains a taboo topic, enshrined in restrictive legal frameworks and rigid social norms. Although some progress has been made, cultural and religious barriers still prevent women and girls from accessing the information and care they need.
The PMAC project in Pakistan takes a phased approach to gathering insights, developing and testing solutions, and refining interventions as needed to ensure we are addressing the challenges women face in accessing post medication abortion (MA) family planning (FP). This learning brief outlines key insights from developing, testing and refining prototypes (also referred to as the Medium-Fidelity Phase) aimed at increasing women’s access to post MA FP in Islamabad Capital Territory.
A pilot program by Ipas, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, and the Oromia Health Bureau proved that private pharmacies can safely expand access to abortion with pills—making essential care more available and closer to home for women in Ethiopia.
Ipas Malawi and partners hosted a national dialogue to address the systemic challenges limiting young girls’ autonomy and opportunities.
Get Involved! Double your impact The fight for reproductive justice may be challenging, particularly at this moment. But together we’ve made progress, and we will keep moving forward. For more than 50 years, Ipas has resisted and persisted in our work …
Reading toolkit We’ve pulled together the essentials for anyone seeking to read and resist: a specially curated reading list and discussion questions to start a conversation with friends, family or your local book club. Reading list With the help of ou …
Read to resist Movements for justice, democracy and human rights are facing especially challenging times. Yet this is far from the first time these movements have been on the defense. Resistance movements have always learned winning strategies and pers …