Projects

Impact of service delivery and capacity building on abortion stigma

Beyond the legal and access barriers that women experience, stigma and social barriers impact and delay women’s ability to access safe, high-...

Addressing teenage pregnancy in South Africa: Research and policy collaborations for progress

Ibis convenes the National Teenage Pregnancy Partnership (NTPP), a coalition of NGOs, government departments, and university partners that share...

Observational study of the mifepristone-misoprostol regimen for second-trimester abortion in Western Cape Province, South Africa

Despite medication abortion using mifepristone being the recommended regimen by the World Health Organization, use of mifepristone-misoprostol has...

Improving women’s access to quality reproductive health services

Improving the quality of care provided in the reproductive health setting can lead to the provision of better care, increased access to and use of...

Assessment of the experience and impact of contraceptive stockouts on women, providers, and policymakers in Uganda

Improving access to contraception is cost effective and improves women’s and children’s health, helps to reduce maternal mortality, and...

Reproductive health decision making among urban youth in Ghana

Young people in Ghana face a number of sexual and reproductive health issues, including high levels of unmet need for family planning, early...

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,...

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...

Expanding women’s options: Scaling up medication abortion in public sector facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

South Africa’s 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act legalized abortion on request through 12 weeks’ gestation and for social,...