Ipas Ethiopia

Working closely with the Ministry of Health and other partners, Ipas Ethiopia has become a regional leader in establishing sexual reproductive health services and creating reproductive health networks that connect women with care. Programs include training and supporting health clinics with necessary supplies, supporting university students who serve as peer educators on sexual and reproductive health, and working to educate communities on how and where to access contraception and safe abortion. Since 2010—when a study of abortion complications in Ethiopia showed a high percentage of deaths from unsafe abortion among women in the second trimester of pregnancy—Ipas Ethiopia has also worked with the Ministry of Health to introduce medical abortion services for women at or after 13 weeks pregnancy into all major states and regions of the country.