Type Nonprofit 501(c)(3) Website www.ipas.org | Area served Worldwide Founded 1973 | |
Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina Motto Protecting women's health, advancing women's reproductive rights Similar Guttmacher Institute, Population Council, EngenderHealth, Center for Reproductive Rights, Marie Stopes International Profiles | ||
Ipas is a global non-profit organization that works around the world to eliminate deaths and injuries from unsafe abortion and increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Ipas’s work is grounded in the belief that women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.
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Scope of work
Ipas works to improve women's access and right to safe abortion care and reproductive health services by:
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History
1973: Ipas is founded, following the passage of the Helms Amendment, which prohibits use of U.S. foreign aid to support abortion services overseas.
1973: Ipas begins manufacturing and distributing manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) instruments.
1990: Ipas launches the postabortion family planning initiative.
2003: Ipas creates, defines and implements the concept of "woman-centered comprehensive abortion care".
2009: Ipas University, a self-paced online learning site for reproductive health care providers, is launched.
2009: Womancare Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ipas, is launched to market and distribute the MVA instruments, as well as a number of other reproductive-health technologies.
2009: "Not Yet Rain," a documentary about abortion in Ethiopia, is produced by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lisa Russell and Ipas.
2010: Ipas has offices in 13 countries and serves 40 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.