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Our History

Since 2000, Ipas Ethiopia in collaboration with Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaus has been working to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortions.

Initially operating in three regions and following the revision of the abortion law in 2005, we expanded our program to comprehensive abortion in seven regions to enable women and girls have access to high quality abortion care and contraception information and services.  

In 2006 our post-abortion care program evolved into Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) following legal and guideline revisions, and In 2008, we integrated comprehensive contraceptive services into its programs, becoming the only country office to do so.  

We continue to work closely with the government of Ethiopia supporting its efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, with a special focus on the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality. Our operations in the seven regions of Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, Southern Ethiopia, Sidama, and Central Ethiopia, encompass a comprehensive approach to providing both contraceptive and abortion care. we continually strive to build sustainable ecosystems that consider all factors affecting access to these services, which range from individual health knowledge and community support to a trained health workforce and supportive policies.

By this token we, train healthcare providers, enhance health system capacity, conduct researches to improve practices, and collaborate with local organizations to educate communities on reproductive health and rights. Our undertakings are backboned the strong partnerships that we forged with the Federal Ministry of Health and regional health bureaus throughout the regions that we operate in. Intersectionality is one of the themes that are uniform across our varied interventions, ensuring that our services are available to all who need and seek it trumping over barriers imposed by compounded vulnerabilities.

Recently, we introduced self-managed abortion and included it to our long list of services and supportive endeavors, in 2021. Following the conflict in northern Ethiopia we have shifted a big part of our focus towards sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) interventions in humanitarian crisis affected areas, working to combat the act and support those affected by it.

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