Accountability in sexual and reproductive health and rights research
On May 17, 2021, we hosted a webinar on accountability as part of a dialogue series on rights-based research and knowledge creation for sexual and reproductive health. Sexual and reproductive health...
View ArticleAdolescents and Sexual Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Written by Lucy Guan, Master of Public Health student at Columbia University with an interest in sexuality and reproductive health. Comprehensive sexual education and conversations with adolescents...
View ArticleSexual Happiness & Disability: Making Fulfilling Sex Accessible for All
Written by the Lovehoney Sex Experts team based on interviews with Andrew Gurza, the Chief Disability Officer at Handi. There are many health conditions that can impact mobility, including age-related...
View ArticleHuman Rights and the Fight Against Retrogression in the U.S.
Written by Risa E. Kaufman, Director, U.S. Human Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights As the threat of U.S. retrogression on abortion rights increases, so do demands for human rights. This year,...
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Texas abortion ban: what it means and what happens next
On October 20, SRHM hosted a webinar where we discussed the Texas abortion ban, the strategies being pursued to stop its enforcement and the ban’s implications for sexual and reproductive health and...
View ArticleNew Evidence Offers Blueprint to Accelerate Family Planning Immediately After...
Written by Siti Nurul Qomariyah, Research and Evaluation Director, Jhpiego Indonesia and Michael Muthamia, Senior Technical Officer, Jhpiego Kenya A woman’s right to use family planning throughout her...
View ArticleInvestigating what constitutes a positive contraceptive experience
Written by Sophie Butcher, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh; Molly Gilmour, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow; Federica Cucé, Department of Medicine,...
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Launch of SRHM’s poetry collection on sexual and reproductive justice
Following our recent call for poetry, we launched a poetry collection with sexual and reproductive health experts, professionals, and activists who are also poets. The panel talked about how poetry can...
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Zumbambico : the artist behind the cover
Isabel Zuluaga Mesa, best known under her artist name Zumbambico, is a Colombian illustrator whose drawing titled Fuerza (which translates to Strength) is featured on the cover of the SRHM Open Issue...
View ArticleAlternative solution to an entrenched problem
Written by Swastika Shrestha, Research Officer at Birat Nepal Medical Trust in Nepal and co-author of the research article Feasibility of HPV self-sampling pathway in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal using a...
View ArticleTrans Reproductive Justice – podcast transcript
This blog post is the transcript from an episode of the SRHM Podcast titled Trans Reproductive Justice with Avery Everhart, Blas Radi and A.J. Lowik. The SRHM Podcast is available for free on all major...
View ArticlePoetry for sexual and reproductive justice
Following a call for poetry, SRHM launched a poetry fair on sexual and reproductive justice. Of the 107 submissions, our Selection Committee invited 57 poets to publish their poems in SRHM’s anthology....
View ArticleSexual and reproductive health, rights and justice in the war against Ukraine...
Eszter Kismödi,a Emma Pitchforthb Chief Executive, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, Geneva, Switzerland Executive Editor, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, London, UK. Correspondence:...
View ArticleAfter more than 500 days of deliberation, Colombia decriminalizes abortion
Written by María Mercedes Vivas, Executive Director of the Orientame Foundation in Colombia On the 21st of February, after more than 500 days of deliberation the Constitutional Court in Colombia ruled...
View ArticleChallenging the notion of evidence: bringing rights into SRHR research
In May 2022, SRHM held a symposium in New Delhi and online with the aim to create space for dialogue on: Deconstructing the notion and hierarchy of evidence Pushing methodological boundaries in SRHR...
View ArticleWhat just happened?: Abortion in the U.S. after Roe – Podcast transcript
This blog post is the transcript from an episode of the SRHM Podcast titled What just happened?: Abortion in the U.S. after Roe with Mindy Jane Roseman, Elizabeth Nash and Rachel Rebouché. The SRHM...
View ArticleMedical Students Dissent Against Overturning of Roe vs. Wade
Written by Snigdha Chigurupati, Sophia Cordes, Hannah Kralles, Sophie Kurschner, Rachel Nassau, Priya Sathyanarayan – a group of medical students in Washington, DC, USA On June 24, 2022, women and...
View ArticleAbortion safety: no longer coat hangers and backstreets, but pills, hotlines,...
Written by Dr Rishita Nandagiri, Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science In early May 2022, the leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion calling for an overturn of Roe v. Wade was...
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Pleasure and Pride
Written by Anne Philpott, Founder and Co-Director of The Pleasure Project, and Amanda Kamanda, researcher, transgender activist, and intern at The Pleasure Project © Dykes on Bikes London On July 2nd,...
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Sex Tech for Sexual Health, Rights and Justice: Findings from the first...
Written by Zahra Stardust, Kath Albury and Jenny Kennedy, researchers at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. Sex tech includes a diverse...
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Engaging boys and addressing masculinities in comprehensive sex education...
Written by Professor Maria Lohan, Professor of Social Science and Health, Queen’s University Belfast If I were Jack is a new comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programme designed to engage boys...
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Good sexual and reproductive health services on paper, but implementation...
Authors of the paper titled A qualitative exploration of the salience of MTV-Shuga, an edutainment programme, and adolescents’ engagement with sexual and reproductive health information in rural...
View ArticleMeet the editors: digital technology and sexual and reproductive health and...
In November 2022, we hosted a webinar with the editors from our call for papers on digital technology and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Together, they offered insight into the theme of the...
View ArticleAre We Really “Decolonizing” Global Health?
Written by Jyotika Rimal, Advocacy Officer, Menstrual Health/ Hygiene Partners’ Alliance (MHMPA) Nepal When the pandemic hit the whole world, everyone realized that global health needs to be...
View ArticleThe Personal is Political: Re-imagining Data Governance in the context of...
While digital technology has the potential to revolutionise healthcare, it can also exacerbate gender inequalities, deepen marginalisation, and enable human rights violations. In a world where our...
View ArticleThe UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights Strongly Condemns the...
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 directly promotes hatred and violence against LGBTQ persons – it violates human rights and will seriously undermine Uganda’s response to HIV and AIDS. On May 29,...
View ArticleSpain’s Constitutional Court’s Recent Decision Paves the Way for Further...
Written by Jovana Ríos Cisnero, Executive Director, Women’s Link Worldwide The recent decision by Spain’s Constitutional court to affirm the right of women and gender-diverse people to access abortion...
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Webinar: Donor funding for SRHR advocacy
On 27 September 2023, SRHM hosted a webinar to launch the special journal issue ‘Donor funding for SRHR advocacy’. We were joined by over 100 participants from around the world. Expert speakers...
View ArticleMenstrual Health in a Post-Roe Landscape
Menstrual Health in the U.S. Menstrual health is an important, yet often overlooked, aspect of reproductive autonomy. It encompasses the physical, mental, and social well-being of those who menstruate....
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Re-thinking criminalization: what are better ways to protect the rights of...
At home, in school, and in public spaces, young people are always told that they have limited freedoms and rights for their own protection. This can include restrictions on mobility outside the house...
View Article75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Sexual and...
On the occasion of the 75th Human Rights Day on 10 December 2023, SRHM calls for the ongoing respect, protection and fulfilment of sexual and reproductive health and rights as human rights. The 75th...
View ArticleDigital Justice and Sexual and Reproductive health and rights
What measures are needed to safegueard human rights for SRH in the digital space? Which mechanisms can advance legal, social and health systems accountability? The webinar, held on 6 December 2023,...
View ArticleEnd of year message 2023
Dear SRHR and SRHM community, We are most grateful for all the support and solidarity that the SRHR community has provided to SRHM over this year. Due to this support we are celebrating our renewed...
View ArticleCervical Cancer Awareness Month
January marks Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. A preventable and curable disease, it is one that starkly highlights the inequities within healthcare, with the highest number of the deaths occurring in...
View ArticleReclaiming African Leadership to end FGM/C
Written by Maïmouna Balde Bah, Research Fellow, Population Council Inc, Nairobi, Kenya Growing up in Guinea, where FGM/C is widespread, dissenting voices against the practice were scarce, and typically...
View ArticleUpcoming funding opportunity on addressing neglected areas of sexual and...
By Montasser Kamal on behalf of IDRC Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are foundational to people living full healthy lives. When people access quality SRHR information and services, and...
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Standing up to attacks on Comprehensive Sexuality Education
UN agencies and medical professional associations coming together to build support and to stand up to attacks on Comprehensive Sexuality Education Dr Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli Eight years into the...
View ArticleBattling Misinformation and Disinformation: SRHR in the Digital Age
On 25 January 2024, SRHM and the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health hosted a webinar entitled “Battling Misinformation and Disinformation: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the...
View ArticleThe neglected aspects of reproductive health and rights of U.S immigrants
Written by Rasha A. Al-Lami As a mother, physician and immigrant to the U.S. who has suffered the painful journey of family separation, I aim to highlight the neglected aspects of reproductive health...
View ArticleBreaking the Silence: Empowering Women with Disabilities in Uganda’s Sexual...
By Rupankar Dey Rupankar holds a Master’s in Development Studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has worked as a Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) researcher for Liliane Fonds, a...
View ArticleQuestions de santé sexuelle et reproductive: un numéro spécial de six...
Dans de nombreux pays à faible et moyen revenu, l’accès aux soins de santé sexuelle et reproductive (SSR) reste un problème en raison, entre autres, du manque de données probantes pour orienter les...
View ArticleThe (feminist) joy of abortion work
By Laura Hurley Laura Hurley is Communications Lead at the Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF), a global fund dedicated to safe abortion. The original version of this blogpost can be found on the SAAF...
View ArticleSexual and Reproductive Health Matters in Brazil
By Suelen Tavares Gil Suelen Tavares Gil is a Brazilian-qualified lawyer who advocates for human rights and sexual and reproductive rights through litigation and social mobilisation. She runs the...
View ArticleInternational Transgender Day of Visibility
March 31 is celebrated as the International Transgender Day of Visibility every year, to raise awareness on the discrimination and struggles faced by transgender people, and to celebrate their...
View ArticleCollaborating for Improved Sexual and Reproductive Health for Adolescent...
By Zohra S Lassi and Salima Meherali About the Authors Dr Zohra Lassi (PhD) is an Associate Professor and NHMRC Emerging Leader-2 (EL2) Fellow at the Robinson Research Institute and the School of...
View ArticleImpact of Restrictive IVF Policies on Comprehensive Cancer Care
By Bridget Kelly, Bhakthi Sahgal, and Ornsiree Junchaya What’s more distressing: a cancer diagnosis or grappling with the devastating infertility resulting from the treatment? For many, it’s the...
View ArticleEmpowering Adolescents: The Imperative of Integrating Trauma-Informed...
Written by Ananya Asad, a global health professional from Bangladesh with 9+ years of experience in public health interventions focused on adolescent and youth well-being in South Asia, the Caribbean,...
View ArticleBlack Maternal Health Week 2024 –‘Our Bodies STILL Belong to US: Reproductive...
SRHM stands in solidarity with an initiative founded by Black Mamas Matter Alliance, to raise awareness and action in improving Black maternal health. April 11-17 each year is celebrated as Black...
View ArticleThe Hidden Impact of Climate Change on Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive...
Written by: Dr. Salima Meherali, PhD: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. Yared Asmare Aynalem: (PhD Student), Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta Saba Nisa: (MN...
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Navigating contraceptive induced menstrual changes
Written by Gunjan Khorgade, Snehal Sinha and Pramila Sharma, Action Research and Training for Health (ARTH) “It feels good when your periods stop. You don’t have to worry while travelling, you become...
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