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Anu Kumar

Anu Kumar is president and CEO of Ipas, an international reproductive health and rights organization. She provides strategic leadership for staff in Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America—all guided by Ipas’s commitment to working for a world where every woman and girl can determine her own future.

Latest Articles

Sexual and Reproductive health
Sexual and Reproductive health
Opinion: During COVID-19 crisis, lift barriers to reproductive health care — including abortion
27 Apr 2020
If women cannot access safe abortion services due to lockdowns and clinic closures, there could be an increase of 3 million unsafe abortions. This op-ed discusses how abortion and pregnancy care remains essential, even in this time of crisis.
Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual and reproductive health
Opinion: Time to put abortion top of the SRHR agenda
9 Dec 2019
When we talk about improving women's health — specifically reproductive health — we can't leave out abortion. Anu Kumar, president and CEO of Ipas, explains why, and how it can be effective.
Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya Crisis
Opinion: Rohingya women have suffered enough. They don't deserve discriminatory health care.
14 Dec 2017
"By not providing comprehensive reproductive health care, humanitarian agencies have taken a side — the side that opposes women’s human rights, the side that opposes science and common sense, the side that flies against established international agreements."
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