An estimated 35 million women and girls of reproductive age are living in crisis settings around the world, yet they often have little or no access to contraception or abortion care. No matter what causes the crisis—conflict or climate—they face the same harms to...
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Actualités cliniques dans le domaine de la santé reproductive
Actualités cliniques dans le domaine de la santé reproductive vise à permettre aux membres du personnel d’Ipas, aux formateurs, à nos partenaires et aux autres professionnels de santé d’avoir accès aux recommandations basées sur des éléments factuels les plus récentes.
Actualizações clínicas em saúde reprodutiva
As Actualizações clínicas em saúde reprodutiva foram concebidas para fornecer ao pessoal do Ipas, formadores, parceiros e outros provedores de serviços de saúde acesso a recomendações actualizadas e baseadas na evidência. Em geral, as recomendações são as mesmas que aquelas na edição de 2012 do guia da Organização Mundial da Saúde titulado Abortamento seguro: orientação técnica e de políticas para sistemas de saúde, Segunda edição. Em casos excepcionais, as recomendações foram modificadas de acordo com os contextos em que trabalhamos. Além disso, se houver evidência mais actualizada para informar as recomendações, estas serão actualizadas aqui.
Reasons for delay in reaching healthcare with severe abortion-related morbidities: Qualitative results from women in the fragile context of Jigawa state, Nigeria (AMoCo)
This article describes the pathways to care for women with severe abortion-related near miss events in a fragile context.
UN experts say U.S. abortion bans violate human rights
The United States is violating human rights by denying legal access to abortion—and should take immediate action to end the criminalization of abortion at the federal, state and local levels. This is the newly released conclusion of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in response to testimony from Ipas and partners in October.
Actualizaciones clínicas en salud reproductiva
La publicación de Ipas titulada Actualizaciones clínicas en salud reproductiva contiene recomendaciones clínicas actualizadas, basadas en evidencia, sobre la atención integral del aborto, así como nuevos temas y recursos agregados con regularidad. Actualizaciones clínicas en salud reproductiva ofrece información concisa y fácil de leer sobre los servicios de aborto, y combina las evidencias más recientes con lecciones aprendidas de profesionales de la salud a nivel mundial para producir recomendaciones clínicas pertinentes.
Our impact in 2023
Impact Report 2023: Building the world we wantFor over 50 years, Ipas has worked to ensure that reproductive health care, including abortion and contraception, are available and accessible to all. This report shares some of the key impacts of our work in 2023.We...
Digital innovations for reproductive health access
With the increasing pace of artificial intelligence (AI) and a global pandemic that pushed digital solutions, Ipas is harnessing cutting-edge advancements in digital technology to share accurate information about and expand access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including abortion.
Anna Lynam
Program Support DirectorAnna Lynam supports strategic and operational success of Ipas’s country programs in Asia and Africa. Since joining Ipas in 2011, Lynam has also served as Ipas’s Asia Regional Manager and the Senior Advisor of Ipas’s Youth Programs. Prior to...
Blessing Zvinzanwi Rufetu
Interim Co-Director and Finance Manager, Ipas Africa Southern RegionBlessing Zvinzanwi Rufetu joined Ipas in 2019 as a Finance and Operations Manager for South Africa. Rufetu has occupied various positions in the NGO financial sector since 2005. Before joining Ipas,...
Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors among providers of abortion-related care
This evidence brief from the AMoCo study presents selected results of a knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors (KAPB) survey given to health professionals in Jahun, Nigeria providing abortion-related care.
Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors among providers of abortion-related care in a referral maternity hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic
This evidence brief from the AMoCo study presents selected results of a knowledge, attitudes, practices, and behaviors (KAPB) survey given to health professionals providing abortion-related care. Providers are critical to providing timely and high-quality comprehensive abortion care (CAC) that can decrease abortion-related complications. This survey aims not only to assess the KAPB of CAC providers in hospital settings but to identify provider-related barriers to adequate CAC and points for improvement in the provision and accessibility of CAC services.
AMoCO Study resources
The Abortion-related Morbidity and Mortality in Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (AMoCo) study is a multi-year research project to assess the magnitude and severity of abortion-related complications in hospitals located in fragile or conflict-affected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Central African Republic (CAR) and Nigeria.
In flood-hit Pakistan, Ipas is ensuring reproductive health care
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Post-abortion care needs in fragile or conflict-affected settings
This research snapshot summarizes methods, key findings, and implications of the Abortion-related Morbidity and Mortality in Conflict-affected and Fragile Settings study conducted in Jahun, Nigeria and Bangui, Central African Republic.
In first-ever Green Wave Gathering, abortion rights activists unite across borders
In February, Ipas and partners brought together abortion rights activists from Latin America and the U.S. in a historic step toward cross-border collaboration for reproductive justice. As the U.S. grapples with a rollback of abortion rights, Latin America's "Green...
High severity of abortion complications in fragile and conflict‑affected settings: a cross‑sectional study in two referral hospitals in sub‑Saharan Africa (AMoCo study)
This study describes the magnitude and severity of abortion-related complications in two referral hospitals located in two different types of fragile and conflict-affected settings and supported by Médecins Sans Frontières.
United States
In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for almost 50 years. With this decision, the U.S. joined a handful of autocratic, anti-democratic countries bent on denying human rights and restricting abortion—while the rest of the world is expanding abortion access. Since then, many states have enacted new legal restrictions, in some cases extreme enough to effectively ban abortion entirely. While rights vary state by state, overall people in the U.S. now have less reproductive freedom—with Black, indigenous and people of color facing the greatest barriers to bodily autonomy.
Latin America and the Caribbean
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Reaching people through the private sector when public health systems shut down
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