Case Studies

Emory University’s Center for Humanitarian Emergencies interviewed 10 Nicaraguan women ages 16-23 who experienced unintended pregnancies. One of these women, Ana Maria, shared her experiences of rape and the physical and mental effects of unsafe abortion.

Ipas led service assessments, equipment and medication supply chain evaluations, and capacity building workshops to establish menstrual regulation and post-abortion care services for displaced women in Bangaldesh. These more robust, scaled-up abortion care services created opportunities for women to more openly discuss relevant SRH issues.

An organization working in a crisis-affected Asian country conducted values clarification and attitude transformation exercises to increase the quality of abortion services provided by private providers. Confidentiality, referrals made in one-on-one settings, and on-the-job misoprostol and manual vacuum aspiration training helped to strengthen safe abortion care.

In Thailand’s Tak Province, a team of safe abortion care advocates distributed misoprostol among community-based organizations and held in-depth trainings on the drug’s medical and legal aspects. This network of misoprostol distributers provided safe, effective, and culturally accessible abortions for women in the region.

A network of community-based organizations in northern Thailand improved safe abortion care (SAC) for refugee and migrant women from Burma. Programming included consulting on medical services within legal frameworks, covering patients’ procedure and travel costs, and providing language interpretation, among others.

Engaging young people in the research, design, and implementation of SRH programming grounded CARE International’s adolescent-focused work in Goma, DRC. CARE worked with youth leaders to evaluate adolescent-relevant services, raise awareness of contraceptive services, and foster an environment that promotes adolescents’ access to SRH services.

In eastern DRC, CARE scaled up the capacity of a village-based supplies monitoring initiative to prevent stock outs of essential SRH supplies, including implants, pain medicine, and high-level disinfectant. The initiative’s strengthened inventory management skills improved the quality and uptake of SRH services in crisis-affected settings.

A humanitarian response agency strategically leveraged the support of MOH officials to import Misoprostol – an essential, lifesaving medication that is often barred if regarded exclusively as an abortifacient.