Category: Publications

Universal health coverage (UHC) has been identified as a means of addressing health inequalities to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1 As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), …

Liberalization of abortion law in 2002 and expansion of abortion service thereafter, has contributed to acute cut of the maternal death attributed to unsafe abortion from 20% to 7%. Recent …

Ipas Nepal has been providing technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to initiate and expand Safe Abortion Services (SAS) in the country since the legalization of abortion in …

Early detection of pregnancy is important for initiating antenatal care (ANC) for an intended pregnancy and for seeking safe abortion care for an unintended pregnancy. Lack of certainty about pregnancy status …

In March 2002, the Parliament of Nepal enacted landmark legislation granting women broad legal access to abortion. Lawmakers took this historic step in response to evidence of the detrimental effect …

The COPE (client-oriented, provider-efficient) approach originated as a quality improvement process for family planning services and was developed by Engender Health, which has been developing and refining the COPE technique …

Increased utilization of health services may not necessarily improve health outcomes unless the services are characterized by excellence in delivery along with other benchmarks for good quality. But improved quality …