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Program Manager, Ipas DRC

Dr. Mike Mpoyi is an experienced medical doctor and public health professional skilled in health system strengthening, project management, and implementation with a focus on reproductive health and infectious diseases. With over 13 years’s experience in strengthening access to healthcare in Africa, notably the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Uganda, and Burundi, Dr. Mike Mpoyi has focused his work on improving access to equitable sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), with focus on establishing youth-friendly pathways to services in stable and conflict zones for vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr. Mike Mpoyi is the current Senior Program Manager for Ipas in the DRC. He started his career as the Coordinator of Peer Educators in Reproductive Health for a youth health-centered national programme. In 2013, he became Area Physician Manager at Premium Health Limited before becoming Country Manager in 2014.

During three years, he provided clinical and managerial oversight, ensured accurate management of pharmaceuticals stock, managed the DRC country office and national network of 75 Premium Health clinics across the DRC. From 2016 he chaired the IPPF-DRC Provincial Board of Directors ; for two years, he led the strategic thinking on positioning the organization at the regional level. In that same year, he founded Access Care, a national non-profit health maintenance organization becoming the first Chief Executive Officer. Since 2020 he has been working as the Global Technical Advisor, at Ipas US.

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In a sustainable abortion ecosystem, public and private evidence-based abortion services are shaped by individual and community needs. Universal access to services is sustained and supported not only by policy and legislation, adequate funding and but also appropriate commodities. Services are free of stigma, respect human rights and are available through a trained and supported health workforce that meets clinical and service delivery standards.

Service delivery outcomes inform continuous quality improvement, meet community needs and support and inform political will and action.

Ipas works to improve access to and uptake of contraception to support women in avoiding unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions. These efforts aim to improve the quality and consistent availability of a wide range of methods in public-sector health facilities while ensuring the provision of affordable options of acceptable quality. Services must adapt to the needs of young women, and communities must be informed about the methods available.

People received contraceptive services at Ipas-supported facilities.

People received abortion care at Ipas-supported facilities.

Trained health professionals

Abortion Access Points Ipas supported through the selection and training of healthcare workers and supply of pharmacies.

As a health professional, it’s important to have tools that enable me to protect women, but above all to contribute to reducing the maternal mortality rate.

Aimée Olenga
Midwife, Kintambo Maternity Hospital

Thanks to the support of Ipas DRC, the PNSR has developed standards and guidelines to better secure and supervise access to comprehensive, woman-centred abortion care in the DRC.

Dr. Annie Ntumba
Director of PNSR

Clinical mentoring is a good way of facilitating communication between providers and women. We create a bridge and facilitate communication. Being a mentor is a great responsibility to our fellow providers but also to women: doing clinical mentoring allows me to better understand women’s reproductive rights and needs.
Dr. Michael Mboma
Healthcare Provider, Mentor since 2020.

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