Latest Blogs
A selection of blogs from across the Federation
Nepal
Breaking Barriers: Inside Nepal’s First LGBTQIA+ Hormonal and Laser Therapy Clinic
“In my mind, I only ‘came out’ once – from my mother’s womb,” says Swastika, a transgender activist and clinic coordinator of Nepal’s first Hormonal and Laser Therapy Clinic for LGBTQIA+ people. The clinic was established in 2022 in collaboration with IPPF’s member association, the Family Planning Association of Nepal (FPAN) and the Blue Diamond Society (BDS), Nepal’s pioneering LGBTQIA+ organization.
Ghana offers free long-term contraception in a ‘game changer’ for women’s reproductive health rights
14 January 2022
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Program expands to include free long-term contraception from 1 January 2022
10 June 2020
For Ireland, the pandemic is having a significant impact on the delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare. Abortion has been legally accessible for fewer than two years in the country – has this bore the brunt of the hit?
06 March 2020
International Women's Day 2019: Abena Amoah, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana, is on a mission to ensure everyone has the right to sexual and reproductive healthcare information and services.
20 February 2020
In 2018 a new programme began rolling out a at cashew factory and at the school on the factory grounds, in Mim Ghana. Its aim? To help reach young people and women who worked in the factory with information and services related to their sexual and reproductive health.
08 March 2019
Dragana grew up in socialist Yugoslavia and has been the Executive Director of the Serbian Association for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for 12 years. A passionate advocate for gender equality, IPPF spoke to her about the challenges women and girls face in Serbia.
10 August 2018
All around the world, young people are leading the way for important change by improving their communities in their own unique, brilliant ways. These are just a few of their remarkable stories.