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Marta Alicia Hernández and Ruth Sefora Manzano. IPPF/Carlos Barrientos/El Salvador

Who We Serve

IPPF leads a locally owned, globally connected civil society movement that provides and enables services and champions sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, especially the under-served.

Women & Girls

Two-thirds of the 1.4 billion living in extreme poverty are women.

Almost 50% of all sexual assaults are against girls 15 years old and younger. Globally, HIV is the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age.

IPPF Humanitarian - Nepal Floods 2017 IPPF/Tom Pilston/Nepal

Young People

Today the world is home to 1.8 billion young people under the age of 25. This is the largest generation of young people, ever, and are a vastly diverse group of individuals.

Burundi_Bujumbura_Mobile clinic IPPF/Georgina Goodwin/Burundi

Marginalized Communities

Marginalized communities have the greatest need for sexual and reproductive health services and include young people, sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, sexually diverse populations and prisoners.

IPPF Humanitarian - Cyclone Amphan India 2020 IPPF/Disha Arora

Humanitarian

Women’s need for reproductive health care is not suspended in a humanitarian crises. One-quarter of people affected by crises are women and girls aged 15-49. In crisis settings there is a heightened risk of early marriage, sexual violence, unsafe abortions and unattended births. Transmission rates of STIs, including HIV, also increase in emergencies whilst access to normal healthcare services decreases.
 

IPPF Humanitarian - Vanuatu Volcano 2017 IPPF/Kathleen Prior