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This brief highlights how international, more open, gender-inclusive trade can boost women’s role in the economy, can reduce gender equality gaps, and can expand women’s empower, health and education—and how trade, women’s empowerment and sexual and reproductive health and rights are mutually reinforcing.
In March 2025, a broad spectrum of key stakeholders gathered in Mogadishu, Somalia, to discuss how to build a sustainable ecosystem for maternal and reproductive health care. A strategic roadmap emerged from the multi-day event, along with a shared commitment by stakeholders to implement the plan and transform the country’s maternal and reproductive health landscape.
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.
This study centers African adolescents’ own voices and shows that when policies are less restrictive and services are easier to reach, adolescents are more likely to obtain safe care and less likely to resort to unsafe abortion methods. These findings support the push for youth-responsive services, clearer pathways to care, and reforms that reduce fear, delay, and stigma.
In two humanitarian settings in Uganda and Kenya, a respondent-driven sampling study examines abortion incidence and safety, providing evidence on access and outcomes where care is often constrained.
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.
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 protect and fulfill many human rights. In facilitating an increasingly restrictive landscape around abortion access, the U.S. has breached its international human rights obligations.
Girls and young women find power in information to secure their futures
Protect everyone’s right to reproductive freedom This year Ipas brought lifesaving reproductive health care to almost 2.5 million people across 24 countries. And we reached millions more with essential information about reproductive health. With your s …
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.