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2211-56516

WITHIN EVERYONE’S REACH

  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.

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2002-37203

Acompañando a las mujeres: legal and safe self-managed abortion

  FUNDACION PRO BIENESTAR SEXUAL Y REPRODUCTIVO (PROSER)               Colombia

PROSER will introduce the legal sale of mifepristone through pharmacies in 10 municipalities in central Colombia to provide a legal, affordable and safe option for self-managed abortion. The project is supported by a network of medical professionals who prescribe abortion medication (mifepristone/misoprostol) after a health risk assessment. With a prescription, women can access the medication at their local pharmacy in person or by delivery. After taking the medication, the doctor follows-up via telephone to verify the result of the treatment. Information on abortion care is also disseminated though educational materials, including information on this new option of legal self-managed abortion.

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1902-32039

Opportunities and early access to abortion services in Profamilia, Colombia

  Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)                       Colombia

Profamilia uses the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s social franchise toolkit to improve access to safe abortion care for women in conflict-affected Colombia. This includes: (i) developing a quality-assured network of health care providers trained in medical abortion and manual vacuum aspiration, stigma reduction, and legal training; (ii) dissemination of information on safe abortion services amongst people in these communities; and (iii) community empowerment education activities.


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1902-31901

At the Reach of Women

  Fundación Oriéntame                      Colombia

Innovator Story: Safe Abortion with Reach: How Telemedicine is transforming Reproductive Health in rural Colombia  

Fundación Oriéntame implements and tests a telemedicine service to provide access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, including safe and legal medical abortion, for women and girls in remote areas of Colombia. This will be facilitated by a registered nurse based in a rural area of Colombia under the remote assistance of a physician from the Oriéntame Clinic. The nurse will use an information and communications technology platform to communicate with the physician, therefore meeting the local requirement that abortion medication be prescribed by a physician. In addition to medical abortion, the team will provide contraceptive counselling and screening for sexually transmitted infections.