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COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

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Overview

COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

Status: Active (as of extraction date 2026-04-03)

Description: Ipas's COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund supports innovative, fast-moving work to address barriers to abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund supports projects that respond to the pandemic's impact on reproductive health services.

Geographic Scope: Global - Africa, Asia, and Latin America (countries where Ipas works)

Focus Areas:

  • Ensuring abortion remains an essential health service during COVID-19

  • Providing women with information on safely self-managing abortion with pills

  • Supporting government recognition of abortion as an essential health service

  • Training and supply provision for abortion providers (including PPE)

  • Contraceptive care maintenance during pandemic

  • Health worker safety and protection equipment

  • Information dissemination through accessible channels (WhatsApp, online platforms)

  • Healthcare facility operations maintenance
  • Eligible Applicants:

  • Ipas partner organizations and teams

  • Health facilities and health systems

  • Community health worker networks

  • Women's health organizations
  • Project Examples Funded:

  • PPE distribution to health centers and hospitals in Nepal

  • Handwashing basin placement in healthcare facilities (Bangladesh)

  • Community agent training for safe abortion information (Bolivia)

  • Advocacy for menstrual regulation service restoration (Bangladesh refugee camps)
  • What They Don't Fund: No restrictions mentioned in documentation

    Background: Launched in response to COVID-19 pandemic creating barriers to abortion care, with some politicians attempting to use the crisis to deny reproductive rights.

    Contact: Ipas, P.O. Box 9990, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA
    Phone: 919-874-5280
    Website: https://www.ipas.org/covid-response-fund/

    How to Apply

    Application Process

    No specific application details are provided in the documentation. Donations/applications appear to be managed directly through Ipas country teams and partner organizations.

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    reproductive-healthhealth-education

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