Ipas is an international, non-governmental organization that seeks to increase access to safe abortions and contraception.
To this end the organization informs women how to obtain safe and legal abortions and trains relevant partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on how to provide and advocate for these.
Today Ipas works on five continents with a comprehensive approach that centers the needs of those who seek abortion care.
Ipas aims to build sustainable abortion ecosystems that address all factors impacting a person's ability to access abortion—from individual health knowledge, to social and community support, to a trained health workforce, to political leadership and supportive laws.
[2] Ipas works to improve women's access and right to safe abortion care and reproductive health services by:[3] To aid these tactics, together with other similar bodies, Ipas issued a joint declaration on abortion during the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 in 2019, where the strategy of these organizations is to: