A continuing challenge in ensuring universal access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care is the inability of individuals to confidently and safely terminate an unwanted pregnancy. This framework for sustainable abortion care is Ipas’s response to that urgent need. Using a human-centered approach, it identifies steps for program design, action and evaluation—and recognizes that sustainable abortion care is dynamic and requires new thinking, new ways of collaborating and new approaches.

This guide is designed to assist safe abortion services program managers and providers in forecasting for the most critical medicines and medical supplies required for providing these services. While there are many guides for forecasting various reproductive health commodities, this guide specifically addresses forecasting for medical abortion drugs and vacuum aspirators. The step-by-step processes listed in this guide can be used to estimate the commodity requirements for a national program or for an individual service site for a given amount of time.

This 12-page job aid supports efficient inventory management of misoprostol (and mifepristone, depending on the setting) and other maternal-health medicines. It defines sound inventory management practices that can help reduce stock-outs and oversupply situations, and is for use by staff in public health facilities, nongovernmental organizations (civil society organizations) and private for-profit clinics and hospitals.