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Pictured above: Deepika Boipay is a nurse midwife at Pompara Health Center, Uttar Pradesh, India. How task-sharing increases abortion access for women and girls People around the world experience barriers when trying to access abortion care: stigma, cost, limited knowledge or a lack of providers. These barriers can force them to have unsafe abortions, which […]
When Ipas Mozambique Country Director Jorge Matine was in secondary school, his fellow students knew him as someone they could go to with questions about sexual and reproductive health. “Everyone has something to ask, something they want to know,” he says. He was a peer educator and close with his mother, who “was very open—I […]
By Anu Kumar We’re a month into a new decade, but as I reflect on the last few months of 2019 and consider the changes of the last few years, I am struck by how some things stay the same—like Ipas’s vision for a future where every woman and girl can determine her own future—and […]
Reproductive rights, including abortion rights, are human rights. That’s why Ipas advocates with UN human rights treaty bodies—committees of field experts who monitor the implementation of core international human rights provisions—to influence policies and ensure that the rights of women and girls are upheld. “The information that Ipas shares with human rights treaty monitoring bodies […]
Abortion is health care, and health care is a human right. That’s why efforts to advance universal health coverage (UHC)—an international effort to guarantee that all people, regardless of where they live, have access to essential, quality health services without financial hardship—must include strong language defining sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion care, as […]
Samuel Lamptey grew up around women—he has 11 sisters. This experience has helped him understand and empathize with the issues women face, including unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion. “We cannot make progress if we don’t understand the issues of women,” he says.
As the largest government funder of family planning and reproductive health services, the United States plays a vital role in improving public health around the world. But U.S. foreign policies like the Global Gag Rule—also known as the Mexico City Policy— and the Helms Amendment are actually harming health and rights by restricting women and […]
In rural villages in Jharkhand State, India, men tend to make decisions about family matters. But youth leaders—trained by Ipas Development Foundation (IDF)—are sharing sexual and reproductive health information and, ultimately, chipping away at traditional gender roles.
In Ghana, a police officer and abortion rights advocate devotes himself to safe abortion access
En Bolivia, el aborto está restringido por la ley, por lo cual muchas mujeres y niñas buscan interrumpir embarazos no deseados por sí mismas utilizando medicamentos para el aborto con medicamentos que obtienen de farmacias o de otros lugares. Reconociendo los posibles daños que estas mujeres y niñas podrían enfrentar si no tienen información correcta […]
Misoprostol, un medicamento utilizado para inducir el aborto, es fácil de acceder en la mayoría de las farmacias de México y puede obtenerse sin receta. Esto significa que muchas mujeres eligen el autocuidado del aborto, y que trabajadores de farmacias desempeñan un papel decisivo para asegurar que las mujeres puedan comprar misoprostol sin tener que […]
Health intermediaries in Kenya support women in self-managed abortion
The abortion drug misoprostol is readily available in most pharmacies in Mexico and can be obtained without a prescription. This means that many women choose abortion self-care—and that pharmacy workers play a crucial role in ensuring women can purchase misoprostol without facing stigma, judgment or misinformation.
In India, an estimated 15.6 million abortions occur each year—and out of those, about 12 million (73%) are medical abortions (or abortion with pills) that women experience in places other than health facilities.
Preâmbulo Nos últimos 25 anos, governos, provedores de saúde e sociedade civil tomaram medidas importantes para promover os direitos sexuais e reprodutivos de mulheres e raparigas, em conformidade com as normas internacionais de direitos humanos e orientações de saúde pública, incluindo a liberalização das leis de aborto em mais de 50 países. Além disso, o […]
Préambule Au cours des 25 dernières années, les gouvernements, les prestataires de santé et la société civile ont pris des mesures décisives pour faire progresser la santé et les droits sexuels et reproductifs des femmes et des jeunes filles conformément aux droits humains et aux directives de santé publique, par le biais notamment de l’assouplissement […]
Preámbulo En los últimos 25 años, gobiernos, prestadores de servicios de salud y la sociedad civil han adoptado medidas importantes para promover los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres y niñas, en consonancia con las normas internacionales sobre derechos humanos y la orientación en salud pública, que incluye liberalizar las leyes sobre aborto en […]
This joint declaration on abortion for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 (November 12-14, 2019) was developed by the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Center for Reproductive Rights, CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, Ipas, Marie Stopes International, Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ), SPECTRA and Vecinas Feministas por la Justicia Sexual y Reproductiva […]
Mexico’s Oaxaca State has become only the second state in the country to decriminalize abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. A revision to the state’s penal code means that women and girls can now legally access abortion services—including from public health centers—without fear of prosecution. “We celebrate this reform, as the government of […]
Malena Morales, Ipas Bolivia Country Director, shares why she’s a passionate advocate for abortion rights Ipas Bolivia Country Director Malena Morales first joined Ipas in 1999 and served as a medical advisor and coordinator of multi-year projects—including one on postabortion care and one to improve the community-level response to sexual violence—before becoming country director. Dr. […]