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About IPPF

We deliver sexual and reproductive health services that let people make their own choices. We are local, through our members and volunteers, and global, through our network. We meet need, wherever it is, whoever requires it, for as long as they want it.
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Story

Growing up intersex in Uganda

The lives of LGBTI people in Uganda are often constrained by social and political pressures, including discrimination and legal restrictions. This is Kisaakye's story of how IPPF helped her.
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Blog

Adolescent Health

Young Palestinians healthier from pre-marriage counselling

Early marriage is increasing as families are desperate to secure safety for their daughters. But without sexuality education the consequences can be tough.
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Resource

31 May 2016

#KnowItOwnIt - your sexual rights matter!

IPPF's 2016 campaign is on strengthening quality comprehensive sexuality education for all young people. Your sexual rights matter. It's time to Know It, Own It!
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Resource

4 February 2016

IPPF's humanitarian response

Access to sexual and reproductive health services is a human right. In the midst of war or natural disaster it saves lives.
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News

15th August 2016

IPPF joins forces to call for gender equality

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has joined forces with Keira Knightley, Annie Lennox and a string of other celebrities and humanitarian organisations to call on the new International Development ...
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Blog

IPPF LIVE

Adolescent parenthood and mental health problems

Girls age 15 to 19 with a diagnosis of a major mental illness are almost three times as likely to give birth as adolescents without mental health issues. Education is key.
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FPOP and IPPF-SPRINT staff working with displaced people in the Philippines

News

2nd August 2016

IPPF-SPRINT provides humanitarian assistance in conflict affected areas of North Cotabato, Philippines

IPPF is providing humanitarian assistance in escalated armed conflict-affected areas until November. We will help 15,000 people across 25 affected villages, particularly women and girls.
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