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Swastika

Nepal

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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.   
Sudanese woman

29 January 2024

Since the start of the brutal armed conflict between SAF and RSF in mid-April 2023, conflict-related rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan has increased significantly.

Sudanese woman

29 January 2024

Since the start of the brutal armed conflict between SAF and RSF in mid-April 2023, conflict-related rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan has increased significantly.

Clinic staff in front of the clinic

10 January 2024

Vanuatu is one of the first countries in the Pacific to adopt a strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer.

Clinic staff in front of the clinic

10 January 2024

Vanuatu is one of the first countries in the Pacific to adopt a strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer.

Many Women with their children attend the clinic for sexual and reproductive services, treatment and advice. .

03 November 2022

There are 19,073 refugees in Um Rakuba camp, where the Sudan Family Planning Association (SFPA) has established a sexual and reproductive health clinic to serve the needs of refugees.

Many Women with their children attend the clinic for sexual and reproductive services, treatment and advice. .

03 November 2022

There are 19,073 refugees in Um Rakuba camp, where the Sudan Family Planning Association (SFPA) has established a sexual and reproductive health clinic to serve the needs of refugees.

Nurse Leias Obed attending to a patient

02 June 2020

Women often have to hide their sexual and reproductive health issues and concerns, for fear of stigmatization, or even coercion and violence. Nurse Leias Obed knows how to work around this.

Nurse Leias Obed attending to a patient

02 June 2020

Women often have to hide their sexual and reproductive health issues and concerns, for fear of stigmatization, or even coercion and violence. Nurse Leias Obed knows how to work around this.

Elshafie Mohamed Ali, Sudan Executive Director

16 April 2020

From developing an interactive app with up-to-date health information, to increased community awareness projects, find out how the Sudan Family Planning Association is responding to the impact of COVID-19, in this interview with their Executive Director Elshafie Mohamed Ali.

Elshafie Mohamed Ali, Sudan Executive Director

16 April 2020

From developing an interactive app with up-to-date health information, to increased community awareness projects, find out how the Sudan Family Planning Association is responding to the impact of COVID-19, in this interview with their Executive Director Elshafie Mohamed Ali.

Delivering supplies to Vanuatu

19 December 2017

Our Humanitarian team were on call to deliver emergency family planning and dignity kits during the evacuation of Vanuatu. The most disaster prone country in the world.

Delivering supplies to Vanuatu

19 December 2017

Our Humanitarian team were on call to deliver emergency family planning and dignity kits during the evacuation of Vanuatu. The most disaster prone country in the world.

Sudanese woman

29 January 2024

Since the start of the brutal armed conflict between SAF and RSF in mid-April 2023, conflict-related rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan has increased significantly.

Sudanese woman

29 January 2024

Since the start of the brutal armed conflict between SAF and RSF in mid-April 2023, conflict-related rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan has increased significantly.

Clinic staff in front of the clinic

10 January 2024

Vanuatu is one of the first countries in the Pacific to adopt a strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer.

Clinic staff in front of the clinic

10 January 2024

Vanuatu is one of the first countries in the Pacific to adopt a strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer.

Many Women with their children attend the clinic for sexual and reproductive services, treatment and advice. .

03 November 2022

There are 19,073 refugees in Um Rakuba camp, where the Sudan Family Planning Association (SFPA) has established a sexual and reproductive health clinic to serve the needs of refugees.

Many Women with their children attend the clinic for sexual and reproductive services, treatment and advice. .

03 November 2022

There are 19,073 refugees in Um Rakuba camp, where the Sudan Family Planning Association (SFPA) has established a sexual and reproductive health clinic to serve the needs of refugees.

Nurse Leias Obed attending to a patient

02 June 2020

Women often have to hide their sexual and reproductive health issues and concerns, for fear of stigmatization, or even coercion and violence. Nurse Leias Obed knows how to work around this.

Nurse Leias Obed attending to a patient

02 June 2020

Women often have to hide their sexual and reproductive health issues and concerns, for fear of stigmatization, or even coercion and violence. Nurse Leias Obed knows how to work around this.

Elshafie Mohamed Ali, Sudan Executive Director

16 April 2020

From developing an interactive app with up-to-date health information, to increased community awareness projects, find out how the Sudan Family Planning Association is responding to the impact of COVID-19, in this interview with their Executive Director Elshafie Mohamed Ali.

Elshafie Mohamed Ali, Sudan Executive Director

16 April 2020

From developing an interactive app with up-to-date health information, to increased community awareness projects, find out how the Sudan Family Planning Association is responding to the impact of COVID-19, in this interview with their Executive Director Elshafie Mohamed Ali.

Delivering supplies to Vanuatu

19 December 2017

Our Humanitarian team were on call to deliver emergency family planning and dignity kits during the evacuation of Vanuatu. The most disaster prone country in the world.

Delivering supplies to Vanuatu

19 December 2017

Our Humanitarian team were on call to deliver emergency family planning and dignity kits during the evacuation of Vanuatu. The most disaster prone country in the world.