WHO Release New Abortion Care Guidelines Dear colleagues, The World Health Organization has recently launched their new Abortion Care Guideline (2022). This is an updated consolidated guideline, which replaces all previous guidelines and related products. “These guidelines represent the latest, evidence-based best practice in abortion care. They provide essential recommendations to guide and support health systems, […]
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See full archiveHow IPPF is supporting the Ukraine Refugee Crisis
Dear Colleagues As the war enters its second month in Ukraine, almost 10 million people in the country have been displaced. With over 6 million internally displaced persons and more than 3 million who have crossed international borders into other countries – making it the largest refugee crisis Europe has seen since the second World […]
First-ever country-level estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion
The Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organization, and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) today released the first-ever model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates for 150 countries, highlighting major disparities in access to sexual and reproductive health care. The study, published in BMJ Global Health, analyzes rates from 2015 to 2019, with the aim of providing […]
IPPF Africa Regional Director visits Niger
Watch a short video of the recent IPPF Africa Regional Director’s mission to Niger, November 2021.
Defend the Defenders
Save the Date’ for an event IPPF is hosting with our partners at FIGO, ICM, Ipas, and MSI on 5 April, during World Health Worker Week (April 4 – 8, 2022). The event will formally launch a global project to strengthen action, support and human rights protection for those defending sexual and reproductive health and […]
5th Annual Scientific Hybrid Conference on Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights 2022 Conference
21st – 24th June, Mombasa, Kenya – Reproductive Health Network, Kenya
The links between gender inequality and norms around girls’ sexuality are central to child marriage practices. The Child Marriage Research to Action Network (the CRANK) is holding its first research meeting of 2022 to discuss the links between girls’ sexuality and child marriage. The meeting will be held in English, with simultaneous translation in […]
PPFA and IPPF Embracing Decolonialist and anti-racist approaches in SRHR
IPPF’s Anti-Racism Programme of Action has kicked off at the secretariat level. External Relations Director, Mina Barling, ACRO Deputy Director, Dona Da Costa Martinez and Rayana Rassool, IPPF’s lead for Communications and Change had a webinar with the PPFA team to explore the various strategies and approaches being used by the two organisations to tackle […]
Opening of our office in Colombia!
We are very pleased to announce the opening of one of our locations at IPPF ACRO. On Monday, March 14, we gave this new stage in the city of Bogotá, Colombia along with the team and with the visit of Álvaro, Mina and Dona. You can see here the links in Spanish and English of […]
