This component focuses on ensuring that all people have access to accurate and understandable information about their reproductive health, especially in relation to contraception and safe abortion. The main objective is to empower them to make informed and autonomous decisions about their health, independent of social norms or external pressures.
For this reason, during 2023:
We develop and launched the sexual violence and safe abortion chatbot for migrants I'm with youwhich aims to increase access to information and abortion services for women and people with gestational capacity along the main migration routes in Mexico. In three months this virtual tool reached 7,016 visits from more than 2,000 people, mainly from Mexico, the USA, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
This resulted in 567 automated conversations through the chatbot, with 85% of people satisfied with the information provided by the tool.
We continue to disseminate and position the safe abortion chatbot with Sofia. We recorded 18,339 visits, made by 12,100 people, mainly from Colombia, Ecuador, the United States, Mexico and Peru. The most consulted topics were: "medical abortion", with a total of 11,248 accumulated consultations, and "the use of mifepristone and misoprostol", which accumulated a total of 9,027 consultations by the end of 2023.
We reached 6,913 people through the Interactive Map of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was visited more than 37,339 times.which was visited more than 37,339 times. This tool provides verified and easy-to-understand information on the legal situation of abortion in the region, as well as a directory of 57 local organizations that can provide support to those who need more information on abortion in their respective territories.
Our video on safe abortion with misoprostol has accumulated, as of the end of 2023, a total of 5 362 357 views, 74.4% of which are from women in the 18-34 age group. The comments section of the video has stored more than 46,941 messages and has become a forum where a broad community of support for safe abortion interacts, made up of health professionals and individuals who share their experiences and seek information and accompaniment.
We have developed 4 new safe and legal abortion minisites in Baja California, Colima, Hidalgo y Veracruz and we continue with the dissemination of the sites in Tlaxcala y Oaxaca. These minisites provide information on abortion legislation in each entity and offer details about access to abortion as a health service. In 2023, we reached a total of 39,757 visits, made by 24,390 people. The states with the highest number of visits were Baja California, Mexico City, Oaxaca and Puebla.
Our social networks had a significant impact; on our YouTube channel, we reached almost 7,400,000 people. The impact through our Facebook accounts was nearly 4,000,000 people through Ipas Mexico, and 1,370,000 through the Ipas LAC account. In addition, from our X (formerly Twitter) accounts, we reached nearly 3,000,000 people with information about access to safe abortion in the region.
We created a map showing misoprostol sales points in 10 states in Mexico: Baja California, Mexico City, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Sonora, Tabasco and TamaulipasWe created a map showing the points of sale of misoprostol in 10 Mexican states: Baja California, Mexico City, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Sonora, Tabasco and Tamaulipas, in order to provide information to people on how to access medications to perform a safe abortion. During the last quarter of 2023, we achieved a total of 436 visits to this informative tool.
We achieved 96 journalistic publications in local, national and international media, which addressed issues related to reproductive justice. These were the result of 41 interviews conducted by our expert voices from Ipas LAC, as well as the inclusion of our work in research, notes and reports from key stakeholders and media outlets.
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