This publication supplements Abortion care for young women: A training toolkit (Ipas, 2013). It modifies six values clarification and attitude transformation activities to focus specifically on young women and abortion.
Topic: Stigma
Providers as advocates for safe abortion care: A training manual
Organized in four parts, this training manual aims to foster an advocacy perspective in health-care providers who are involved in delivering abortion and/or postabortion care. The manual will help providers recognize their personal power as advocates and identify different circumstances and means to advocate for comprehensive abortion care to the full limits of the law.
Usos imprevistos y respuestas a la objeción de conciencia en el aborto legal
La objeción de conciencia (OC) es una figura jurídica excepcional. Es que, como principio general, el sistema jurídico demanda y aspira a la obediencia de las normas por todas las personas obligadas. La OC es este curioso caso donde el Estado permite a una persona exceptuarse de una obligación jurídica, debido a sus convicciones morales, siempre y cuando cumpla con los requisitos, procedimientos fijados y no dañe derechos de terceros. Surgió como una forma de proteger minorías religiosas o culturales, usualmente ignoradas por las previsiones de las leyes. Es así que existe hoy una disonancia descomunal entre lo previsto por los textos y la práctica: la versión de la OC como acto reflexivo, sincero y humilde de una persona que hace parte de una minoría ha cedido frente a otros usos mucho más problemáticos y mucho menos éticos.
Community Voices: Strategies to address unsafe abortion
This booklet describes Ipas’s community work with vivid stories and narrative from Ipas staff and partners in the field—from Ethiopia to Mexico.
Advocacy for access to safe legal abortion: Similarities in the impact of abortion’s illegality on women’s health and health care in Pernambuco, Bahia, Paraíba, Mato Grosso do Sul e Rio de Janeiro
This document gives a summary analysis of primary and secondary data documenting unsafe abortion and the impact of the criminalization of abortion on women’s lives and health and on health services in 5 Brazilian states: Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Bahía, Pernambuco, and Paraíba.
Women’s voices: Results from post-abortion client interviews in Zambia
This is a fact sheet highlighting women’s perspectives on abortion care as part of operations research in Zambia.
The stigmatizing attitudes, beliefs and actions scale*
This is a short tool on how to use the Stigmatizing Attitudes, Beliefs and Actions Scale (SABAS).
Escala de actitudes, creencias y acciones estigmatizantes*
Esta herramienta corta explica cómo utilizar la Escala de actitudes, creencias y acciones estigmatizantes (SABAS).
Empowering women workers through youth-led education on reproductive health and safe abortion in Nepal
From 2011-2012, Ipas and our partners implemented a series of classes on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)—including information on safe abortion—for women who work at factories across Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. This report explains how our project increased women workers’ knowledge of SRHR topics so they can better manage their own health and relationships and serve as resources for their families and communities. The report includes background information on Ipas’s work with youth, the context of sexual and reproductive health services for women workers in the Kathmandu Valley, details on the project’s various components, and explanation of key outcomes.
Understanding, challenging and measuring abortion stigma
A factsheet exploring Ipas’s work to understand, challenge and measure abortion stigma
Partner spotlight: The journey to motherhood is one from which some do not return
Blog post contributed by Dr. Osur to the Women Deliver website in preparation for the 2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur. Ipas is a sponsor of Women Deliver.
Mi honor, mi cuerpo, mi salud: Cumpliendo los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las personas jóvenes
En este librito se describe el trabajo de Ipas con la juventud para promover sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Con hechos y explicaciones concisas —más historias de Nepal, Sudáfrica y Ecuador—el librito destaca los retos que enfrentan las personas jóvenes y las oportunidades que tienen para ser líderes y trabajar con personas adultas para diseñar políticas y servicios de salud que sean adecuados para la juventud.
Mi honor, Mi cuerpo, Mi salud: Promoviendo los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de la juventud
En este librito se describe el trabajo de Ipas con la juventud para promover sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Con hechos y explicaciones concisas —más historias de Nepal, Sudáfrica y Ecuador—el librito destaca los retos que enfrentan las personas jóvenes y las oportunidades que tienen para ser líderes y trabajar con personas adultas para diseñar políticas y servicios de salud que sean adecuados para la juventud.
My honor, my body, my health: Fulfilling young people’s sexual and reproductive rights
This booklet describes Ipas’s work with youth to promote their sexual and reproductive health and rights. With facts and concise explanations—plus illustrative stories from Nepal, South Africa and Ecuador—the booklet highlights the challenges young people face and the opportunities for them to become leaders and work with adults to design policies and health services that are youth appropriate.
Annual Report 2014
Ipas’s mission to reduce deaths and injuries from unsafe abortion and to increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights is comprehensive. This report provides a snapshot of the breadth of Ipas efforts, highlighting fiscal year 2014 (July 2013-June 2014) results.