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Cambodian workers at health day organised by Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia - credits: IPPF/Omar Havana/Cambodia

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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Contraception: what are the options?

There are several contraception options available out there to help prevent pregnancy – and some even protect against STIs. Find out more.
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Midwife Ndoye Yacine Touré speaks with client Maguette Mbou, 33, during a free consultancy by ASBEF at School Seydina Limamou Laye in Dakar, Senegal.

Blog

Fighting The Global Gag Rule

The Global Gag Rule: Senegal is finding innovative ways to provide healthcare despite funding cuts

Two years into the 'Global Gag Rule', IPPF Member Association, Association Sénégalaise pour le Bien-Être Familial (ASBEF), is feeling the devastating impact on it healthcare services. Three out of five ASBEF clinics have been forced to close and have suffered $1.4 million in funding cuts. Determined to continue providing vital healthcare services, ASBEF received funds from IPPF's GGR emergency grant to help bring pop-up clinics to the suburbs around Dakar.
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26 November 2018

Watch: Bridging the Gap

It is estimated that two-thirds of women do not have access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services in Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa. Our member association, Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE), is bridging this gap between the need for healthcare and women by bringing services into the heart of the workplace.
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17 May 2018

Watch: Hope on the horizon

IPPF member association SOFHA (Somaliland Family Health Association) are working hard to educate their local communities on the harm of female genital mutilation (FGM). Slowly, but surely, attitudes are changing.
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News

New flagship health programme to transform the lives of millions of women and girls

The lives of millions of women and girls across Africa and South Asia will be transformed by new sexual and reproductive healthcare programmes led by IPPF and Marie Stopes International.
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A midwife talks to a client in Senegal

Story

“Since the clinic closed in this town everything has been very difficult"

Senegal’s IPPF Member Association, Association Sénégalaise pour le Bien-Etre Familial (ASBEF) ran two clinics in Senegal's capital, Dakar, until funding was cut in 2017 due to the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) by the US administration. Meet the healthcare providers on the frontline, continuing to provide care to those that need it most.
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Hasina, a sex worker and peer educator sits outside a brothel, India

Story

"Selling my body doesn’t make me a bad person"

Hasina turned to sex work when her husband died and left her and her three-year-old daughter without an income. She admits it initially made her feel powerless until she began working as a peer educator with Family Planning Association of India. She now feels that she has some control over her own body.
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