Resources

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women globally face compounded barriers to accessing safe abortion care. The de-prioritization of sexual and reproductive health services including abortion care, overwhelmed health systems, restrictions on movement and fear of visiting health facilities have all created additional challenges for women to safely end a pregnancy. However, recognizing the need to adapt to ensure women have access to the care they need, this crisis has sparked innovation among IPPF Member Associations. They developed new approaches to reach women with safe abortion information and care, while keeping women’s choice and quality of care at the centre of their work.  This document illustrates some of the innovative approaches used to ensure continued access to quality abortion care during the pandemic.  

Researchers have identified gender inequality as a key factor driving the AIDS pandemic. Policymakers have called for sexuality and HIV education that emphasizes gender equality and human rights. Educators want to teach young people the critical thinking skills needed to build compassionate and just societies. It's All One Curriculum responds to these calls.

Every person living with HIV is entitled to these rights and they are necessary for the development and wellbeing of all people and the societies in which they live. Young people living with HIV may feel that sex is just not an option, but don’t worry – many young people living with HIV live healthy, fun, happy and sexually fulfilling lives. You can too, if you want to! Things get easier (and sex can get even better!) as you become more comfortable with your status. This guide aims to provide you with practical information, so that you can make informed decisions about who, where, when, and how you have sex. It explores how your human rights and sexual wellbeing are related and suggests strategies to help you make decisions about dating, relationships, sex and parenthood. This guide helps you to: → understand the links between sex, intimacy and wellbeing → express and enjoy your sexuality → experience sexual pleasure → decide if, when, and how to disclose your HIV status → consider your safety and security when disclosing your HIV status → understand what it means to be “undetectable” → practise safer sex → take care of your sexual health → understand what a healthy relationship looks like → choose if, when, how many, and with whom to have children → access support and services that respect your health, dignity, autonomy, privacy and wellbeing

It is estimated that 1 in 3 (35%) women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner and/or sexual violence by a non‑partner in their lifetime, with the majority of this violence being intimate partner violence. Of the 87,000 women who were killed intentionally in 2017 globally, an estimated 58% were killed by an intimate partner or family member.Sexual and gender‑based violence (SGBV) is a human rights violation, associated with death, injury and a broad range of negative sexual, mental and physical health issues and socio‑economic impacts.

Cultural stigmas leave many young people in Tanzania in the dark about their sexual and reproductive health and rights. Our Member Association - Chama cha Uzazi na Malezi Bora Tanzania (UMATI) - has come up with a solution at their youth center in Dar es Salaam: peer-to-peer educators.  Every week over 100 youth sign up for services and training at the center. In 2017 the Global Gag Rule pulled funding from UMATI, however, the Belgian Government stepped in with emergency funding which allowed the center to remain open through the She Decides project.

The overall group income of IPPF has risen by US$51.8 million (46 per cent) to US$163.7 million (2018: US$111.9 million). Unrestricted total income and restricted income rose by US$1.9 million and US$49.86 million respectively. IPPF’s main source of funding is government grants, which account for 88 per cent (2018: 81 per cent) of total income. In 2019 unrestricted government funding increased by US$2.2 million (4 per cent) to US$57.4 million. The main reason for the increase in funding in 2019 was the increase in funding from Germany which rose from €6 million to €12 million. Restricted government funding amounted to US$87 million, up from US$35.2 million in 2018. A full analysis of restricted projects balances. The following Governments were the major contributors to the restricted funding of IPPF: Government of United Kingdom,through the WISH programme in Africa, South Asia and the Arab World US$59.23 million, the European Commission supported the State of African Women Campaign US$4.6 million, Government of Canada US$4.3 million, Government of Australia continued to provide support (US$2.4 million) in relation to the global SPRINTInitiative to provide sexual and reproductive health services to crisisand post crisis areas in South East Asia, the Pacific, South Asia andGovernment of Belgium contributed to the SHE Decides project US$2.07 million. The governments of the Netherlands, Norway, UK and an anonymous donor also provided funding of US$5.64 million to the Safe Abortion Action Fund. Grants from multilateral donors and other sources decreased by 13 per cent from US$20.7 million to US$18.1 million. A significant factor in the decrease was US$0.6 million from GIZ, US$0.26 million from Anonymous donors, and US$0.7 million decrease from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

A comprehensive approach to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) requires the inclusion of HIV. This is even more critical following the recent Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes (ECHO) Study, which highlighted the urgent need to expand HIV prevention, STI services, and contraceptive choices in the broader context of providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. This guidance is designed for use by IPPF Member Associations to strengthen and define a comprehensive package of services for HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care. With new evidence and updated global guidelines, this guide specifically focusses on services with the aim to give updated information on nine recommended service components across the prevention to care continuum. By providing and enabling services along the entire prevention to care continuum of services, the aim is to reach those who are HIV negative with prevention interventions to support them to stay negative over time, and to diagnose, link and retain those living with HIV into treatment and care for sustained viral suppression.

IPPF’s first ever Data Management Strategy results from an extensive and participatory collaboration to ensure that it is guided by and aims to meet the needs of all data stakeholders across the Federation. It serves as a statement of principles for data management for IPPF, and with a detailed implementation plan, provides a guide to action. The strategy describes how all institutional data will be governed, sets out processes to improve and maintain data quality, and addresses how data can be accessed and used to its full potential by all data stakeholders. With a clear vision, six values and four result areas (Data Governance, Quality, Access and Use), the strategy highlights the value of data as a critical asset for the Federation in achieving the Expected Results outlined in IPPF’s Strategic Framework 2016-2022. It also shows how all data managers and users can work more effectively and efficiently by collecting, storing, translating and using institutional data for internal decision-making as well as being vital to our donors and stakeholders, so that we can be held accountable and also promote the important work being done by IPPF across the globe.

  The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences are negatively affecting the availability of and access to basic services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care, and is further exacerbating existing inequalities. IPPF Member Associations have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19, as service delivery points have been forced to close and some operations have had to be suspended. Concerted political action to secure sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) provision is necessary to adequately face this challenge – to this end, IPPF Member Associations have been actively engaging in advocacy with decision makers at national, regional and international levels to ensure that access to SRHR and SRH services is safeguarded and available to all who need it. They have demonstrated exceptional innovativeness, leadership and resilience in their advocacy efforts to secure these goals.