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2201-60165

Improving Access to Abortion and Contraception & Creating a Sustainable SRH Ecosystem for Young Women and Girls

Ipas Development Foundation           India

Ipas Development Foundation aims to advance government policies on safe abortion and SRH services for young women through decentralization, task shifting, and creating a referral system between community health clinics to higher level health facilities. IDF previously received Transition to Scale funding, and with additional funding, IDF aims to expand its geographic coverage in four states of Assam, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, and to operationalize the new safe abortion law (Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act 2021) strengthening 720 health facilities and servicing 259,000 people through improved safe abortion and SRH services. IDF’s model includes: a youth-based SRH outreach program, an AI-powered chatbot offering SRH information and services, comprehensive abortion and contraceptive care, and technical assistance to national and state level governments and strengthen SRH services.

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2303-64804

Safe Nest-Scaling a Digital Self-Managed Abortion Solution to Marginalized Kenyan Youth

  Women Promotion Ventures EA LTD           Kenya

Women Promotion Ventures EA LTD (WPV)’s innovation, Safe Nest, accompanies marginalized transgender and disabled youth through their self-managed abortion journey, providing them with reliable, private resources. The three components of the platform are: 1) an AI-enabled Safe Nest Chatbot through Facebook Messenger allowing users to access information on safe abortion, post-abortion care, and contraception; 2) a team of trained community connectors (intermediaries) to create awareness, ensure proper usage of the innovation and availability of medical abortion drugs; 3) and a team of trans- and disability-friendly healthcare providers to provide non-judgemental and confidential care both in-person and remotely. WPV will scale up the innovation to the 27 new counties in Kenya and expand the user base by including women living with disabilities as an additional target user group, while also maintaining the innovation in the sites involved at proof of concept.

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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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2301-64044

Breaking The Cycle

  Fight AIDS Malawi          Malawi

Fight AIDS Malawi (FAM)’s innovation establishes a safe abortion ecosystem that builds the capacity of local health facilities and creates a referral system between rural villages and public and/or private clinics. The approach addresses structural barriers and expands access to safe abortion through an online forum for youth-friendly information, village and school forums as peer-educator led safe spaces, outreach clinics and participating pharmacies offering safe products and services, and supporting community engagement initiatives led by village forum leaders and Community-Based Organizations (CBOs). The OPTions portfolio previously funded the piloting of this innovation in Lilongwe district through a proof of concept grant. In this phase, FAM aims to refine and scale up the innovation to an additional 120 villages, 30 schools and 20 health facilities in Lilongwe and Dowa districts in central Malawi, while maintaining the innovation in the sites involved at proof of concept.