Safe Abortion
Overview
Every year, more than 25 million avoidable unsafe abortions occur. Legal restrictions and a lack of safe options mean that women and adolescent girls unnecessarily risk their health and lives every day. At PSI, we believe that everyone has a right to safe and legal abortion services, products and information, as well as post-abortion care and contraception.
How we
work
The Four Pillars of our Work in
Safe Abortion
We engage in policy dialogue and advocacy around safe abortion and post-abortion care.
Our
Impact
In 2018, PSI’s safe abortion and post-abortion care programs achieved the following impact:
Active in more than
20
countries
Approximately
2 million
women reached
Over
150,000
medication abortion and manual vacuum aspiration services provided
An estimated
6,000
maternal deaths prevented
Where are PSI and Partners Adapting Safe Abortion Programs in response to COVID-19?
This map specifically highlights how six international organizations adapted their safe abortion and post-abortion care (PAC) programs to the evolving COVID-19 context. The map captures their stories of resilience, digital innovation, and persistent advocacy to maintain access to safe abortions and PAC during the pandemic.Â
Visit our interactive ArcGIS COVID-19 StoryMap.Â
Our Solutions
PSI helped catalyze the misoprostol market in Tanzania by launching and supporting its first widely available brand of misoprostol. After just a few years, the market went from having an inconsistent supply dominated by one player to having several players compete with high quality, affordably priced products. Now, with the urban market well served, we are pivoting to last mile distribution in rural areas.
PSI is innovating with technology to facilitate referrals and collect feedback to improve the client experience. PSI Cambodia developed a smartphone app that facilitates referrals between pharmacies and clinics for onward client care and post-abortion contraception. In other countries, PSI uses popular communication channels like WhatsApp to help shepherd eligible women through the health system for abortion and post-abortion care. Â
In several regions, PSI social enterprises are improving medication abortion sustainability through regional sales operations that offer economies of scale and operate against a double-bottom line that measures health impact and cost recovery.
PSI engages with the public sector in many of the countries in which we work. For example, in Angola, we supported public sector providers in several hospitals to deliver treatment for more than 1,500 post-abortion care cases each month.
Featured Projects
Self-Care Trailblazers Group
Women’s Health Project (WHP)
Piloting an Accompaniment Model to Support Women During Medication Abortion
Innovative Models for Medication Abortion Marketing and Distribution
Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health in Niger, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire
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