…work in progress. At this point, none of us know exactly what works but over the next few years, the field is likely to identify successful strategies for stigma reduction…
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Reflections on resilience 20 years after Ethiopia’s historic abortion law change
…incomplete without mentioning the incredible resilience of advocates, health workers, policymakers and Ipas staff and partners who made it happen. They’re still working today, now focused on training health providers,…
Dilatation and evacuation: Cervical Preparation
…roles and low-certainty evidence of safety and effectiveness. Although there is insufficient direct evidence, WHO suggests that community health workers, pharmacists and pharmacy workers can safely and effectively provide medications…
Ipas evidence in action 2025: Research insights on abortion access, quality, and equity
…With 36 trained facilitators delivering 44 workshops to 1,182 health workers, it provides a real-world model advocates can use to work with health professionals to reduce stigma and support respectful,…
Ipas’s human rights and women’s rights advocacy work
…those bodies make to governments, which can lead to real change,” says Elizabeth Guthrie, Ipas senior advisor for policy and advocacy. “Our work in the field gives us a deep…
Our audacious vision
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Beyond the frame: A conversation with Manuel Seoane
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Born and based in La Paz, Bolivia, Manuel Seoane uses photography to show stories that are often overlooked
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Partnering with community groups and health workers during civil war
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Against the backdrop of a brutal civil war, Ipas Ethiopia supports health facilities to provide sexual and
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On-the-job training makes for sustainable comprehensive abortion care in Nigeria
…standards. Yet in Nigeria, despite Ipas training support to states, frequent attrition of health workers disrupts availability of quality CAC services across public health facilities.
Ipas Nigeria worked in…
Ipas celebrates the life of Katie Early, long-time Ipas leader and champion for reproductive justice
…friend and longtime Ipas colleague Ann Hogan Leonard at Ipas’s 50th anniversary celebration on June 6, 2023. Together, Early and Leonard worked to create a workplace culture at Ipas that…
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The Girls and I: Ipas Zambia director helps women develop leadership skills
…“The greatest opportunity I’ve had is to work with young women—and not so young women—on finding themselves,” she says.
In Ipas Zambia’s office, Tambatamba-Chiyaba runs The Girls and I,…
Ensuring care for internally displaced people
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Decades of armed conflict, economic unrest and public health crises in the Democratic Republic
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About the photography
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Ipas is committed to ethical storytelling, image use and most importantly, upholding people’s dignity in the work we
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Reproductive health assistance for Rohingya refugees
…health workers in postabortion care and menstrual regulation (a procedure for establishing non-pregnancy).
As a member of the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) on Reproductive Health in Crises, Ipas has…
A year of resilience amid unprecedented challenges to reproductive rights
…reproductive health care in Nigeria
Munira Ibrahim Saleh is one woman who’s experienced the lifechanging impacts of our work in Nigeria to advance disability-inclusive reproductive health care. Munira works
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Ipas research in Kenya reveals how the climate crisis undermines reproductive health
…systems and communities in the face of climate change.
Pictured above: Janet Lemerimuka working in her kitchen garden that she created through the PACIDA project. Learn more
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Ipas works in Argentina to reduce preventable injury and death from unsafe abortion. It is estimated that, each
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Entashata: A small organization leaving giant footprints in Kenyan communities
…Entashata helped establish the Mashinani Reproductive Health Network Kenya, connecting with 20 organizations that do similar work. “Ipas has created more impact than any other partner,” Simpano says. “Our profile…
Sustainable abortion ecosystem
At Ipas, we’re working with partners to build sustainable abortion ecosystems, recognizing that there are multiple factors that influence an individual’s ability to access abortion. In a sustainable abortion
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