Projects

Women’s and providers’ experiences of second-trimester abortion in the Heartland and the Northeast

Approximately one in ten abortions in the United States take place in the second trimester, but second-trimester care remains more stigmatized than...

Pathways to engagement in HIV care for newly-diagnosed South Africans

Despite the global effort to scale up treatment programs and increase access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-positive people living in...

Building a framework for evaluation and communication in sexual and reproductive health: A collaboration among Ford Foundation grantees in Southern Africa

The Ford Foundation is currently supporting several grantees working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Mozambique, Namibia,...

Investigating the reproductive health needs of women and girls with epilepsy

Epilepsy, a poorly understood and often stigmatized condition, is the most common neurological disorder in females of reproductive age, affecting...

Social Scientists’ Research Meeting

As part of Ibis’s continued commitment to supporting the development of researchers working on abortion and rigorous research that can inform...

Improving access to safe abortion in the Latin America and Caribbean region

An estimated 3.7 million unsafe abortions take place in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region each year, leading to the deaths of almost 4,000...

Reducing maternal mortality from unsafe abortion

In collaboration with colleagues at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco , we published the...

Simplifying medication abortion

Medication abortion has the potential to dramatically improve access to safe pregnancy termination services in low-resource settings because it can...

Costing and cost-effectiveness analysis of abortion methods in South Africa

Cost-effectiveness data for abortion give decision makers information about which abortion methods offer the most benefit per expenditure. Given...

Effect of improving family planning services in the context of HIV care and treatment in Kenya

With colleagues at University of California, San Francisco, and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, we performed a cluster randomized trial in...

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