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Access to family planning after an abortion is a vital part of comprehensive reproductive health care. Clinical studies have shown that fertility can rapidly return following an abortion. But access to such care has not been widely available to women in Pakistan.
In Ghana, people who get abortion pills at pharmacies are just as likely to use contraception afterward as those who go to clinics.
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Ipas’s Dr. Demeke Desta shares what it was like before the law changed—and the progress he’s seen since.
The High Court in Malawi has ruled that adolescent survivors of sexual violence have the right to access abortion services in both public and private health facilities. Previously, abortion was only legally permitted to save a pregnant person’s life.
Together, we expanded reproductive freedom. With support from donors and partners, Ipas brought lifesaving reproductive health care to almost 2.5 million people at over 10,000 health access points across 24 countries. And we reached millions more with essential information about reproductive health.
Abortion rights in cases of stealthing: reflections, challenges and legal possibilities in Brazil: In 2025, Ipas-supported research in Brazil examined “stealthing,” removing a condom during sex without consent, and how it may fit within Brazilian law as a form of sexual violence with implications for legal abortion eligibility. This paper argues that pregnancies resulting from “stealthing” should qualify for legal abortion under existing exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape.
Everyone deserves the freedom to decide whether and when to become pregnant. When people don’t have access to contraception and accurate information on family planning, they have less control over their lives and futures. But of the 923 million people in low- and middle-income countries who want to avoid pregnancy, 218 million lack access to modern contraceptive methods due to barriers like cost, limited services, misinformation, provider bias, and gender inequality.
Home 9 Search Results “Women with disabilities are often excluded in information on sexual and reproductive health, including safe abortion and contraception.” Patience Ogolo Dickson, founder of Advocacy for Women with Disability Initiative, Niger …
Yotse got pregnant when she was 15. Her story is not unique. An average of 61 teenagers become pregnant every day in Bolivia.
Home 9 Search Results Bolivia title Subtitle Bolivian context. Possibly numbers pulled from SOW that need to be checked and/or updated. In Bolivia, 3,652 marriages and free unions of adolescents aged 15 to 18 years were registered, between 2015 t …
Home 9 Search Results Estelle title Estelle, age 25, lives in rural Malawi with her seven-year-old son and runs a pastry business. “When I got pregnant at 17, I longed to finish my secondary school education, but my parents forced me to marry the …
Chinsinsi represents millions of girls in Malawi, where the teenage pregnancy rate is 29%—one of the highest in the Southern Africa sub-region
The girls featured in these stories are children struggling to raise children of their own. Each one of them is a portrait of resilience.
At age 14, Nur Aini was in school, working toward her dream of becoming a teacher. Then she got pregnant.
This PMAC learning brief examines the pharmacy training and support aspects of a pilot study in two peri-urban union councils in Islamabad Capital Territory. It highlights how frontline pharmacy staff are trained to provide informed, client-centered post-pregnancy family planning care. Drawing on data from the first six months of the study, the brief showcases how the intervention aligns with High Impact Practices (HIPs), offering insights into client profiles, training effectiveness, and family planning uptake.
Girls deserve the right to choose their own path in life. That’s why we tackle the interrelated factors of child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and school dropout.
Ipas’s SMA research in Cambodia and Ghana provides insights into women’s uptake of post-abortion contraception from pharmacists versus clinics. Results showed that although the rates of contraceptive use were the same between women who got abortion pills from a pharmacy versus a clinic, pharmacy clients were more likely to use a less effective method, and contraceptive information and options were more readily offered by clinics, indicating a need for supporting pharmacies in providing more information and effective methods at the time of SMA purchase.
A mixed-methods study assesses whether respondent-driven sampling can be used to feasibly recruit participants with recent abortion experiences in humanitarian contexts, offering practical guidance for researchers working in hard-to-reach settings.