SafeSigns: Using Technology to Prevent Dating Violence in South Africa Introducing SafeSigns, a WhatsApp-based chatbot being developed by Reach Digital Health in partnership with Ipas Africa Southern Region and LoveLife. Each year the global 16 Days of
This ambitious 7-year initiative, funded by Global Affairs Canada, will empower communities and advance sexual reproductive health and rights across the country. Ipas ASR is proud to be an implementing partner with Oxfam alongside others. The CHOICE pr
Ipas Africa Southern Region (ASR), South Africa office in collaboration with the Department of Women (DWYPD) – Hosts CTS Nexus Convening on Child Marriage, Teen Pregnancy and School Dropouts from 9-12 March 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The four-
For nearly two decades, Ipas Zambia has worked closely with the Ministry of Health to reduce maternal deaths caused by unsafe abortion and to expand access to safe abortion services nationwide. However, despite the progress made, persistent and emergin
The High Court in Malawi has ruled that adolescent survivors of sexual violence have the right to access abortion services in both public and private health facilities. Previously, abortion was only legally permitted to save a pregnant person’s life.
Ipas Africa Southern Region (ASR) staff from Malawi, South Africa and Zambia recently attended an intensive five-day training on Shared Leadership in Practice (SLiP) in Lusaka, Zambia. The event that took place from 10th to 15th June, 2025 marked a sig
May 5 and 6, 2025, Cape Town, South Africa. Ipas Africa Southern Region and Ipas Alliance in collaboration with the the Global Alliance for Health, Rights and Development (GPA), a project of the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive R
Ipas teams from Mozambique, Africa Southern Region, DRC hosted the 21st Anniversary Conference of the Maputo Protocol in Mozambique 10th and 11th July 2024.
As part of its ongoing effort to safeguard sexual and reproductive health services during the COVID-19 crisis, Ipas Malawi has made a second donation of essential health commodities to the Ministry of Health.