#IAmSAFE campaign launch: supporting safe abortion care in Africa

FIGO’s Advocating for Safe Abortion Project is proud to support the newly launched #IAmSAFE campaign, run by five of our member societies in Africa. This campaign, running until October 2023, aims to coordinate communication efforts regarding access to safe abortion in the West Africa region.

7 August 2023
Aude Langlois, Senior Communications and Marketing Coordinator

Abortion is a crucial part of universal health coverage and a time-sensitive procedure. The slightest delay can have severe repercussions on the health and well-being of women and girls.

Every year, 35 million women use risky and less safe methods to terminate their pregnancies, and gynaecologists, obstetricians and other health care professionals around the world witness first-hand the consequences of these practices daily.

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/iamsafe-campaign-launch-supporting-safe-abortion-care-africa

07.08.2023

FIGO Advocating for Safe Abortion project

International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

Kader Avonnon

Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Cameroon

Looking back on the successes of the International Safe Abortion Day 2021

10 December 2021
FIGO Advocating for Safe Abortion Project

For International Safe Abortion Day (ISAD), marked on 28 September, the 10 national member societies FIGO supports through its Advocating for Safe Abortion Project developed educational activities and awareness-raising campaigns in their countries and communities.

“International Safe Abortion Day is about making what is often ignored – the preventable pandemic of unsafe abortions - visible. As a committed health care community we come together to demonstrate what solutions must be implemented. Together with our partners, we raise our voices to dismantle abortion-related stigma which is the enemy of women/girls’ right to claim access to safe abortion – time-sensitive essential health care. This year from Latin America to Africa we are proud to share the efforts of our OBGYN member societies, and all that they are doing to stand up for women/girls’ health care and human rights.”
– Jessica Morris, Senior Project Manager, Advocating for Safe Abortion Project, FIGO

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/looking-back-successes-international-safe-abortion-day-2021

International Safe Abortion Day 2021: FIGO launches key recommendations on safe abortion

28 September 2021
FIGO Advocating for Safe Abortion Project

28 September marks International Safe Abortion Day. For this year’s international day of action, stakeholders around the world are coming together behind the call “Make Unsafe Abortion History”. FIGO is proud to release four statements from our Safe Abortion Committee, re-iterating our commitment to sexual and reproductive rights and joining the call for legal and safe abortion for all women and girls.

Access to safe abortion is time-sensitive essential health care. It is included in numerous international, regional and national legally binding treaties – providing access to safe abortion is imperative for women and girls to achieve their human and reproductive rights.

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/international-safe-abortion-day-2021-figo-launches-key-recommendations-safe-abortion

28.09.2021

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Research Supports Advocating for Safe Abortion

Research Supports Advocating for Safe Abortion
New research in ten countries reveals the challenges and opportunities for FIGO National Member Societies to advocate for safe abortion.

29.01.2020
FIGO

Each year, 25 million women and girls around the world undergo unsafe abortions, contributing to an estimated 13 percent of maternal mortality and resulting in long term injuries and infertility for millions more. These figures are unacceptably high and represent an avoidable, but often neglected, public health and women’s rights issue.

FIGO’s Advocating for Safe Abortion Project is supporting ten National Member Societies in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Panama, Peru, Uganda and Zambia to advocate for safe abortion to the full extent of the law in their national contexts.

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/research-supports-advocating-safe-abortion-0016316

Uganda – Closing policy gaps for survivors of sexual violence

Closing policy gaps for survivors of sexual violence

Dec 3,2019

Unsafe abortion continues to contribute significantly to maternal mortality and morbidity in Uganda

To mark the 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence, Dr Kayondo Simon Peter, Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Project Coordinator for the FIGO Advocating for Safe Abortion project at the Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Uganda (AOGU), highlights how a policy gap is denying access to safe abortion for survivors of sexual violence, as well as other women.

Continued: https://www.figo.org/news/closing-policy-gaps-survivors-sexual-violence

03.12.2019