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  Fundación Oriéntame            Colombia

Fundación Oriéntame is the first provider in Colombia to offer medical abortion to women and girls through telemedicine and tele-expertise. The innovation focuses on de-centralizing safe abortion care through task-shifting from doctors to nurses by leveraging technology to increase access to care. Telemedicine utilizes virtual consultations with a physician to prescribe a medical abortion with the discrete delivery of medications, contraceptive referrals, and information pamphlets through the mail. These online consultations are available for smartphone and computer users located anywhere in the country with connectivity but primarily target urban centres, such as Bogota, that have robust connectivity to carry out the service. Meanwhile, the tele-expertise model offers in-person consultations with a locally registered nurse who virtually connects the patient with a physician at a primary care mini-clinic in a peri-urban or rural region to prescribe medical abortions.