Under Access, we share best practice guidance on how to expand access to safe abortion and post-abortion care.
view allAn estimated 25 million unsafe abortions occur every year. Under Awareness, we share strategies for increasing awareness of safe services.
view allUnder Quality, we share resources for delivering high-quality clinical care in safe abortion and post-abortion care programming.
view allUnder Policy, we share guidance and resources for overcoming common barriers to safe services and care.
view allSharing best practice guidance, news and resources on safe abortion and post-abortion care.
Access
Marie Stopes International and partners share strategies for ensuring access during the COVID-19 crises with telemedicine, pharmacies and government partnerships.
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Under COVID-19, access to healthcare is changing, and the impact on abortion care could be severe. SafeAccess partners have launched a new project, gathering insights from the frontline of COVID.
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Attend an upcoming webinar on the Abortion Care Quality Tool to learn about the tool, how to use it and the information it produces, and how you can transform your project with its data!
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Quality
IPPF and How To Use Abortion Pill have developed a free online medical abortion training course for healthcare workers, including physicians, midwives, pharmacists, medical students and community health workers.
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Policy
This publication shares insights and lessons learned by Ipas staff and partners around the world through decades of advocacy work, outlining key obstacles and opportunities that abortion advocates encounter and strategies for overcoming common challenges.
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Access
Despite representing over 15% of the world’s population, considerable gaps persist in safe abortion and contraceptive care for people with disabilities. This guide from Ipas includes actionable steps and checklists to operationalise disability inclusion.
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Access
Marie Stopes Cambodia trialed a mobile-based intervention to deliver contraceptive advice to participatory women in the period following a safe abortion. The impact was significant as the team successfully expanded access to post-abortion contraception.
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Access
Medical abortion with misoprostol has the potential to make significant contributions to the elimination of unsafe abortion. Marie Stopes International share research on how pharmacies can support women to safely self-administer medical abortion (MA).
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Awareness
To support providers in the sexual and reproductive health sector to deliver non-judgmental safe abortion and post-abortion care to women, Ipas have developed a comprehensive VCAT toolkit - Abortion attitude transformation: A values clarification tool.
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Awareness
Abortion stigma drives the high number of preventable deaths and injuries around the world due to unsafe abortion. Abortion Stigma Ends Here: A toolkit for understanding and action was created to help practitioners address and mitigate abortion stigma.
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Awareness
To support organisations and providers to communicate service delivery, clinical trials and potential symptoms effectively and accessibly, Gynuity have developed an image bank, stocked with accurate imagery related to safe abortion and post-abortion care.
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Quality
Providing women with a quality service is central to delivering client-centred safe abortion and post-abortion care. In this briefing, IPPF and Ibis Reproductive Health provide research on client experience, and advice on how to deliver a quality service.
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Quality
The Clinical Updates in Reproductive Health from Ipas are designed to provide Ipas staff, trainers, partners and other health-care providers with access to up-to-date, evidence-based recommendations on sexual and reproductive health.
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Quality
Medical abortion commodities have improved women’s access to safe abortion; however, availability of quality mifepristone and misoprostol vary from country to country. To address this knowledge gap, IPPF developed a medical abortion commodities database.
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Policy
The Global Abortion Policies Database aims to increase transparency around abortion laws and policies, while holding countries to account over the protection of the health and human rights of women girls.
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Policy
For women living in remote settings, a shortage of trained doctors can prevent women from accessing the safe abortion and post-abortion care services they need. SAAF share how task sharing can expand access in these settings and beyond.
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Policy
Viewed as the backbone for clinical safe abortion excellence around the world, the World Health Organization’s guidelines on safe abortion care features guidance on how and why health systems can implement quality safe abortion and post-abortion care.
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