Comprehensive Safe Abortion Care

In the face of changing priorities, we remain resolute in ensuring access to safe abortion services to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, and bodily autonomy.

As part of achieving human rights and gender equality, our work drives access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, including treatment for and complications of unsafe abortion (postabortion care), for women and girls.

In ensuring comprehensive abortion care, we work to ensure the provision of gender-responsive clinical training for health care providers, we partner with the government to strengthening the health systems (improving clinical quality, improving health information management systems, human resource capacity improvement) and advocate for policy and law reforms working with decision-makers and health sectors leadership to implement and adopt progressive sexual reproductive health and rights laws and policies including those that expand access to safe abortion.

Our Stories

Addressing Maternal Deaths through the On-the-Job Training Approach

In Nigeria, there is a staggering rate of 512 deaths per 100,000 births (NDHS 2018. Unsafe abortions contribute to over 10% of maternal deaths. Multiple approaches must be adopted to address low maternal health outcomes in Nigeria.

Reaching for equal: Disability-centered Sexual Reproductive health for Gender Equality.

Mrs. Favour is a 33-year-old woman living with a physical disability in Benin City, Edo State. Like many women with disabilities, she faces challenges when accessing sexual reproductive health including contraceptive services because of the limited knowledge she has to make informed decisions and the stigma faced when she visits healthcare centres.