May 26, 2026
IPOV – Respectful Care supports an activity on respectful, safe and humanised perinatal care during Respectful Birth Month
December 15, 2025
The coordination between Nacer con Amor and IPOV researchers (UDELAR(6) – San Isidro Mother and Child Hospital) makes it possible to envision a shared regional horizon: building a Latin American pedagogy of respectful childbirth that draws on local knowledge, territorial experiences, and the transformative power of healthcare teams.
December 6, 2025
This article examines, from a gender and human rights perspective, how these forms of violence emerge in perinatal care, how they affect the emotional and clinical experience of women living with HIV, and which institutional and cultural transformations are needed to build a fully respectful and inclusive model of care.
November 8, 2025
In the heart of a public maternity hospital in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, a multidisciplinary team decided to transform the space where births take place, enhancing the mother’s salutogenic resources stimulated by the environment. This experience, born at the Maternal and Child Hospital of San Isidro, shows that transforming the obstetric care model is possible from within the public system, when there is conviction, care, and a desire for change.
October 16, 2025
At the Maternal and Child Hospital of San Isidro, during the month of October — Perinatal and Gestational Loss Awareness Month, psychologist and grief specialist Lic. Marta Osorio de Plos offered a dialogue that opened a space for deep collective reflection on death and perinatal grief.
August 15, 2025
Within the framework of the IPOV project, which aims to document and promote experiences to combat obstetric violence, this account brings together two testimonies from a public hospital in Barcelona.
August 8, 2025
During the IPOV San Isidro team’s visit to Barcelona, a deep, honest and moving conversation took place in Palafrugell (Girona), at the L’EIX Centre for Body Pedagogy, with Núria Vives Parés — an internationally recognised expert in movement pedagogy and applied anatomy in childbirth. This dialogue formed part of IPOV’s ongoing efforts to eradicate obstetric violence and transform maternity care models.
August 2, 2025
From IPOV, an urgent reflection on the present and future of obstetric care. Ethical training, perinatal memory, peer support, and institutional transformation come together in this powerful essay by the San Isidro team—mapping a path toward good practices that place the dignity of birthing people and caregivers at the centre.
October 29, 2024
At IPOV Respectful Care, we wish to inform our community about a joint letter initiated by IPPF EN and supported by around 80 civil society organisations, healthcare professionals, and academics who advocate for women’s and LGBTI rights.