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In celebration of Ipas’s 40th anniversary, Ipas’s Anu Kumar explains why American women should care about the health of women everywhere.
In celebration of Ipas’s 40th anniversary, Anu Kumar explains why our mission is as vital as ever.
This is an advocacy tool for implementing authorities, service providers and NGOs on safe abortion and sex selection.
This publication highlights the work in Nepal since legal reform a decade ago and puts a spotlight on the key ingredients for successful scale-up of abortion care, including partnerships with government and NGOs and integration of abortion within the country’s Safe Motherhood program.
This 12-page job aid supports efficient inventory management of misoprostol (and mifepristone, depending on the setting) and other maternal-health medicines. It defines sound inventory management practices that can help reduce stock-outs and oversupply situations, and is for use by staff in public health facilities, nongovernmental organizations (civil society organizations) and private for-profit clinics and hospitals.
This is a fact sheet highlighting women’s perspectives on abortion care as part of operations research in Zambia.
Ipas works around the world every day to strengthen girls’ voices and their ability to choose the path that’s right for them.
This trainer’s manual is intended for use in training-of-trainers courses, along with its companion document, Effective training in reproductive health: Course design and delivery – Reference manual. The trainer’s manual comes with a CD-ROM that includes PowerPoint® presentations and additional exercises for the trainer.
This guide focuses on ways to plan, implement, use and finalize an assessment of how young women and their communities relate to abortion, through locally relevant, community and/or youth-led processes. It is designed to gain insights into the local context surrounding abortion care for young women to inform program design and to support meaningful youth participation in project design. It is a global resource for community groups, youth groups, peer educators, trainers, administrators, program managers and technical advisors of abortion care programs.
Sexual violence can have devastating effects on individuals, families, communities and societies. The findings from the study presented in this report are part of a regional collaboration in Central America to prevent sexual violence and to ensure that victims and survivors have access to all the services provided by the health and justice systems that they may need.
This research report on second-trimester abortion in Ethiopia—which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world—explores the factors causing women to delay abortion care until the second trimester, thereby facing greater risks of medical complications.
La stigmatisation de l’avortement joue un rôle central dans la marginalisation sociale, médicale et juridique des soins d’avortement à travers le monde et a des conséquences négatives sur la santé des femmes, des jeunes filles, des personnes trans et de leurs communautés. La stigmatisation de l’avortement est à l’origine du nombre élevé de décès et séquelles évitables dus à l’avortement non sécurisé à travers le monde.
Abortion stigma plays a critical role in the social, medical and legal marginalization of abortion care around the world—and it leads to negative health outcomes for women, girls, trans people and our communities. It drives the high number of preventable deaths and injuries around the world due to unsafe abortion.
Esta herramienta corta explica cómo utilizar la Escala de actitudes, creencias y acciones estigmatizantes (SABAS).
El estigma del aborto desempeña un papel fundamental en la marginación social, médica y jurÃdica de los servicios de aborto en todo el mundo y produce resultados negativos para la salud de las mujeres, niñas y personas trans y sus comunidades. El estigma del aborto impulsa el alto Ãndice de muertes y lesiones evitables atribuibles al aborto inseguro a nivel mundial.