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Also Available In: Español Français English Ipas tem uma ambição ousada – erradicar o aborto inseguro em todo o mundo – e para tal precisamos que outras pessoas nos ajudem a alcançar esta ambição. Em todas as esferas em que trabalha, Ipas conta com par …
Also Available In: Español English Português L’ambition qui motive Ipas est audacieuse – éradiquer l’avortement non sécurisé dans le monde – et nous avons besoin des autres pour nous aider à faire de cette ambition une réalité. Dans tous les aspects de …
Also Available In: English Français Português Ipas tiene una ambición audaz —erradicar el aborto inseguro a nivel mundial— y necesitamos la ayuda de otras personas para lograr este objetivo. En cada esfera donde trabajamos, Ipas cuenta con socios u org …
Also Available In: Español Français Português Ipas has a bold ambition—to advance reproductive justice around the world by ensuring access to abortion and contraception—and we need others to help us achieve it. In every sphere in which we work, Ipas re …
COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund Ipas is working to ensure that abortion remains an essential health service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is creating many barriers to abortion care—and some politicians are shamefully using it as a reason to d …
© Ipas Nepal © Ipas Nepal The Ipas Nepal team preparing boxes of personal protective equipment to dispatch to health centers they support (above). The team delivered thousands of masks and gloves, plus eye protection, hand sanitizer, soap and other sup …
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the gender, racial and economic inequities in health-care systems around the world that make it difficult for women, people of color, LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups to get the essential health care the …
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. We also focus on targeted re …
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 …
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 for medical abortion (MA) in …
The right to an abortion is not a standalone right. It depends upon people also having other human rights: to health, to equality, to privacy and to live free from violence and discrimination. That’s why Ipas works with diverse partners toward a world …
The U.S. government has a major role to play in the global effort to fight unsafe abortion. But one key U.S. foreign policy—the Helms Amendment—diminishes that role by restricting women’s access to abortion and contraception in developing countries aro …
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. Ipas works to improve care for women and girls who experience …
Strengthening local and global movements for abortion rights 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. We advocate around the world …
Making high-quality abortion care a priority—even in the world’s most remote regions 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. Stigma leads some people to believe that abortion is a rare occurre …
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 most programs, even in places …
Globally, the majority of women who suffer deaths and injuries due to unsafe abortion are at or after 13 weeks of pregnancy. Ensuring women have access to high-quality abortion care at this stage of pregnancy is therefore critical to reducing the harmf …
We are committed to supporting a woman’s right to have an abortion using pills—on her own, when and where she wants.