Asia Programs, 1985-2012
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Ipas began its work in Asia in 1985 in Turkey with the supply of MVA instruments to the Ministry of Health, followed by trainings of medical providers to expand and improve menstrual regulations services. Shortly thereafter, Ipas supplied instruments and developed interventions to improve infection prevention in the Bangladesh menstrual regulation program. In Vietnam, Ipas was part of the Reproductive Health Project starting in 1994 with Pathfinder International and AVSC (now EngenderHealth), and Ipas Vietnam opened its own office in 2000. Vietnam programs focused on assisting the Ministry of Health in developing National Abortion Standards and Guidelines, and expanding access to comprehensive abortion care services, including safe, high quality second trimester abortion services. In India, Ipas played a strategic role in putting safe abortion on the national reproductive health agenda with a seminal conference on safe abortion in Agra in October 2000. With a major private grant, Ipas opened an office in New Delhi in 2001. After the law change in Nepal in 2002 to legalize abortion services, Ipas provided technical assistance in the development of policy guidelines, and planning and implementing the safe abortion program. Ipas's programs in Vietnam, India and Nepal expanded dramatically from 2000 - 2006. Ipas provided technical and training support to start comprehensive abortion care services in Cambodia in 2004 and began developing programmatic plans in Pakistan in 2006.
Ipas's main strategy in Asia was to work in countries where abortion was legal to remove barriers to access and demonstrate models of quality comprehensive abortion care, including medication abortion primarily in India and Vietnam. Asian countries presented great potential for impact to improve women's lives through public sector programs and integration with other reproductive health initiatives.
Don Weeden was Ipas's Regional Desk (Director) for Asia Programs starting in 1999, followed by Traci Baird in 2002, and Wendy Darby in 2005, Amin Islam in 2009, and Karen Olsea in 2011.
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