Asia Safe Abortion Partnership

Every day thousands of Asian women driven by desperation, poverty and social stigma seek help from unskilled providers, or quacks, to end unplanned pregnancies. Every day more than 100 such women - many of them young girls just beginning their lives - die as a result. Tens of thousands more suffer life-long disabilities.

‘SAHAILEE’ - Pakistan Hotline Campaign

A hotline was launched in Pakistan in June 2010 that gave information about how women can use the medication misoprostol to have a safe abortion, or to prevent dangerous hemorrhaging after giving birth.

Please click here to read the report of the Pakistan Hotline Campaign.

ICMA NEWS July 2011 Newsletter n.6

Why do we think abortion country profiles are important?
Experience of Eastern European Alliance of Reproductive Choice (EEARC)

ICMA NEWSLETTER n.5

Lack of access to safe 2nd trimester abortions poses a serious public health problem to the world’s women. It is estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of the over 42 million abortions performed annually take place in the second trimester, over half of which are considered unsafe. They account for two-thirds of all admissions
to hospitals due to complications and are a disproportionate contributor to maternal deaths resulting from abortion.

The ASAP International Seminar on Abortion Access was held on 16/1/2011 in Dynasty Hotel in Kuala Lumpur with local support from RRAAM and OGSM. This gave participants from Malaysia an opportunity to hear the initiatives being made in other countries in Asia and Globally to ensure better access to safe abortions to women, and to reflect on the situation in Malaysia.

"ASAP continued its work in advocating for access to Safe Abortion in the year 2010.

ASAP has implemented its work on a series of projects/ activities through various donors and collaborations in many countries of Asia .

In addition to this ASAP has worked in collaboration with other organizations working in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights such as Centre for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) for conducting workshops, and with many country level organizations to conduct the Media workshops and the Hotline Campaign."

Mass Media Workshop changes my life and Vietnam people’s lives

The Mass Media workshop in Hanoi supported by ASAP for 10 journalists from different newspapers, radio and television on Sexual/Reproductive Health Rights and Adolescent Reproductive Health was held by REACOM in August, 2010. During the workshop and the followed field trip, the attended journalists had chance to put their feet into adolescents’ shoes to really understand adolescents’ needs. Through the activities in the Young Club they understand that adolescents in Vietnam have very poor knowledge about SRH and they are so shame to talk about this topic. They also understand the consequences of this problem are unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortion and spreading STIs among adolescents.

Asia Safe Abortion Partnership in collaboration with Women on Waves and Women on Web have launched a hotline in Pakistan that gives information about how women can use the medication misoprostol to have a safe abortion, or to prevent dangerous hemorrhaging after giving birth

ICMA News Letter - Jan. 2011

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