News & Announcements

June 2011

Ibis congratulates Senior Associate Angel Foster on her new position as Echo Endowed Chair of Women’s Health Research at the University of Ottawa

June 10, 2011 — Although she will be missed, Ibis is pleased to announce Dr. Angel Foster’s new position at the University of Ottawa, where she will be continuing her work on reproductive health in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as expanding her research to include work on...

May 2011

Reproductive health and rights the focus of May Women’s Health Issues supplement

May 9, 2011 – This month’s supplement to Women’s Health Issues (WHI) celebrates the work of Ibis’s Ellertson Fellows, an exciting group of social scientists and public health researchers who study abortion and reproductive health and rights.

March 2011

Ibis celebrates one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act

March 23, 2011 — This week marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the US health reform law, which promises to have a significant impact on women’s and girls’ access to health care. Ibis is celebrating by blogging about the benefits of the new law...

February 2011

New research sheds light on the use of over-the-counter birth control pills

February 22, 2011 — Women who obtain oral contraceptives over the counter in Mexico are likely to stay on the birth control pill longer than those who obtain pills by prescription at US clinics, according to a study by researchers from two University of Texas campuses, Ibis Reproductive...

January 2011

Ibis urges contraception inclusion as part of preventive health care

January 23, 2011 – In a letter to the Surgeon General , Ibis urged contraception inclusion as part of preventive health care in the US National Prevention Strategy. The letter asserted that access to contraception would help to “reduce unintended pregnancy and improve the lives of women...

December 2010

New study investigates women's reasons for self-induction

December 2, 2010 - Barriers to accessing clinical services and a preference for abortion self-induction were among the factors that contributed to women’s decisions to try to induce an abortion on their own, according to “ Self-induction of abortion among women in the United States ,...

December 2010

New resource: My Little Black Book for Sexual Health

We are pleased to announce the launch of My Little Black Book for Sexual Health!

November 2010

Cochrane Review publishes updated review on medication abortion

March 17, 2010 – We are thrilled to share a new collection of resources on medication abortion. Ibis aims to improve access to medication abortion for women around the world through clinical and social science research. We test ways to make protocols and regimens—including both...

October 2010

OCs OTC Working Group launches www.OCsOTC.org

The Oral Contraceptives (OCs) Over-the-Counter (OTC) Working Group has launched its website: www.OCsOTC.org.

October 2010

Ibis submits comments to HHS on new rules under the ACA

October 1 2010 – The Department of Health and Human Services recently took public comments on two proposed rules on important facets of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law passed in March 2010. Ibis submitted comments on both the rules for Group Health...

September 2010

Special contribution in the Austin American Statesmen on Border Contraception Access Project.

September 3, 2010 – Ibis Senior Associate Dr. Daniel Grossman and colleague Dr. Joseph Potter from the University of Texas lament the limits of the new health care reform law which does not extend coverage, including contraception, to unauthorized or recent immigrants in a special...

September 2010

Misoprostol use discussed in The Nation

September 13, 2010 – Laura Tillman describes the experience of a woman in Brownsville, Texas, who obtained misoprostol to induce a miscarriage after she discovered an unwanted pregnancy in The Nation . Misoprostol is one half of the two-drug regimen approved for medication abortion in the...