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Chief Operating Officer Prior to joining Ipas in 2016, Ms. Simutami served as Vice President for East Africa at PSI where she led and managed a region of 11 countries and more than 1700 staff, annual revenue of approximately 185 million and diverse pro …
Chief Scientific and Technical Officer Dr. Andersen sets Ipas’s strategic technical direction and research agenda in support of the organizational strategic plan and mission. She leads Ipas’s work to understand and advance key issues in abortion and co …
President and CEO Dr. Kumar joined Ipas in 2002 as Executive Vice President. In that role, she had oversight of Ipas’s fundraising and communications efforts, started a new technical area working with communities and pioneered work on abortion stigma. …
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Working at Ipas View current openings Our mission Ipas works globally to improve access to safe abortion and contraception so that every woman and girl can determine her own future. Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, we work with partners to make s …
Contact the Ipas Press Officer Now  Follow @IpasOrg Ipas is an international reproductive justice organization solely focused on expanding access to abortion and contraception. We work on five continents with partners and governments to make abortion …
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Since our founding in 1973, Ipas has improved reproductive health by expanding access to abortion and contraception and by protecting individuals’ right to bodily autonomy and to make their own reproductive health decisions. Our vision and our mission …
Our Leadership To make the most of the collective power of our global network, Ipas practices shared leadership—an organizational philosophy that broadly distributes authority and responsibility and moves decisionmaking closer to where our work is done …
Photo by Unforgettable moments for Ipas The Ipas Impact Network works globally to advance reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception. All people have the right to make fundamental decisions about their own bodies and health. …
Ipas resources, publications and research We produce a broad array of materials to help reproductive health advocates and professionals expand access to high-quality abortion care. For health professionals working in abortion care, we offer the latest …
The global movement for legal, accessible abortion is growing. Our staff and partners in countries as diverse as Bolivia, Malawi and India are working to ensure all people can access high-quality abortion care. Ipas works in countries with high unmet n …
We are unapologetically focused on people who want contraception or abortion, and we build our programs around their needs. We know that complex factors in a person’s country, community and personal life all intersect and overlap to put them in control …
Our work began in 1973, with the provision of life-saving reproductive health technology for health systems in several countries. Since then, we have experienced amazing growth and change as an organization, but our singular commitment to expand access …
The first three months of India’s national lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19 compromised abortion access for an estimated 1.85 million women, according to a new study by the Ipas Development Foundation (IDF). Restrictions on travel, combined with the health system focus on battling COVID-19, have significantly impacted three points of access—public health facilities, […]
Malawi has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, putting its health system under strain. The number of health-care workers is limited, and some staff have been reassigned to treating COVID-19 patients, leaving clinics that offer sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services understaffed. Travel restrictions are hindering women from accessing clinics, and in areas where […]
The global coronavirus outbreak is a major threat to the health of women and girls globally and is anticipated to disproportionately affect low-resource settings where barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care already existed. Today, the government of Canada affirmed that the failure to meet women’s and girls’ urgent SRH needs, including abortion, is […]
Health workers across India whose pre-pandemic work revolved around providing reproductive health are still working to keep those services available whenever possible. Many are also stepping up to provide COVID-related services as well—even when it means putting their personal lives on hold.
As committed human rights advocates and caring neighbors, we join in the nation’s collective outrage and pain following the killing of George Floyd and the brutal treatment of so many Black people and people of color. We stand with Black communities around the country in frustration, in anger, in pain and in protest. Hundreds […]
En español abajo The Trump Administration’s attempt to roll back reproductive rights and deny essential health care—detailed in a letter from USAID to the UN—is yet one more despicable action in a frightening anti-rights trend. We strongly condemn the letter, which asks that all references to sexual and reproductive health be removed from the UN’s […]