How Ipas’s Makoki ya Mwasi project guarantees women displaced by conflict can still control their own bodies and futures
Martine Naigna was arrested for helping a woman access contraception without a husband’s approval—and she kept fighting.
A tragic encounter early in her nursing career set Estrela Góia on the path to becoming a dedicated abortion champion who partners with Ipas Mozambique to train providers and expand access.
In August 2025, Ipas Bangladesh and partner organizations convened the first-ever urban youth conference in the country, themed “Youth Voice for Sustainable Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR).”
This study looks at the experiences of 440 women who received abortion care at 13 Ipas Africa Alliance-supported public health facilities in nine districts of Uganda.
The radically expanded Global Gag Rule is a harmful policy that puts the United States even further out of step with our global counterparts.
Ipas Mozambique has launched both a community resource center to foster local leadership on reproductive rights and a chatbot designed to reach rural youth with essential sexual and reproductive health information.
For nearly two decades, Ipas Zambia has worked closely with the Ministry of Health to reduce maternal deaths caused by unsafe abortion and to expand access to safe abortion services nationwide. However, despite the progress made, persistent and emerging challenges, including the growing impact of climate change, continue to affect sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
In a historic milestone for the continent, G20 leaders convened in South Africa in November 2025 for the first ever summit hosted in Africa. Against the backdrop of increasing economic, social and political crises, the world’s leading platform for economic collaboration focused on promoting solidarity, equality, and sustainability as key pillars of inclusive growth.
Access to family planning after an abortion is a vital part of comprehensive reproductive health care. Clinical studies have shown that fertility can rapidly return following an abortion. But access to such care has not been widely available to women in Pakistan.