Watch this short animation to learn more about the contraceptive injection, a contraceptive method that requires no daily action and doesn't interfere with sex.  Learn more about other methods

The Global Gag Rule is a policy that denies vital US funding to organisations that do not sign it. It is a policy that targets abortion and abortion-related services. IPPF refuse to sign the order. By refusing to sign the order, we are forecasted to lose $100 million in funding over the next three years. IPPF believe that every woman and girl has the right to choose and to live free from sexual and reproductive coercion. A year on from the reinstatement and expansion of the Global Gag Rule, we look at the human cost of those affected by the loss of US funding

Learn more about the Female Condom, the only female-controlled contraceptive method that protects you against unintended pregnancies and STIs. The video is also available in Spanish 

Mexfam, IPPF member association in Mexico, continued to provide free healthcare during and after the record-breaking earthquakes in September 2017, despite many members of staff losing their homes and even family members. This is what resilience looks like and we thank those that continue to provide people with vital sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Milan Khadka once suffered discrimination within his community when they found out he was living with HIV. He is now a community home-based care mobiliser with Family Planning Association of Nepal. He uses his music to educate the youth about HIV and to confront the stigma around HIV. Read Milan's story

For displaced women, access to unbiased information and services is a real challenge. IPPF member associations reach women in humanitarian settings to ensure that they have the information and care they need to freely decide abut their health. 

The Serbian Association for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRH Serbia) teamed up with IPAK to challenge gender stereotypes in Serbian society through the act of theatre-based workshops. Boys and girls participate and literally walk in one another's shoes to help challenge and dismantle 'gender roles'. The workshop was funded by the IPPF Innovation Programme.

Access to contraception should never be a challenge, yet young people face stigma and barriers when they try to access to contraceptive care and information. At IPPF, we know that the lack of sexual and reproductive health care is not a game. We work with and for young people to ensure them the healthcare and education they need, so they can focus on a more important challenge: achieving their dreams.     

IPPF will continue to fight to ensure girls' rights, education, healthcare. We want them to be able to stand up and shout: "I DECIDE MY FUTURE!"

Around the world women and girls are forced to turn to unsafe abortion methods due to lack of access to safe abortion methods, abortion stigma and restrictive laws.