Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are centrally important to health. However, there have been significant shortcomings in implementing SRHR to date. In the context of health systems reform and universal health coverage/care (UHC), this paper explores the following questions. What do these changes in health systems thinking mean for SRHR and gender equity in health in the context ...

That men figure in a list of the “hardly reached” in reproductive health (RH) testifies to the complex history and politics of this field. It is true that RH services have tended to overlook men and concentrate their efforts on women. Yet family planning (FP) services were often delivered in an expedient manner, not to serve women’s needs, but to reduce population growth. The field’s traditiona...

The global reproductive rights movement arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a challenge to the population control paradigm that has dominated family planning policy for almost half a century. The essence of the challenge is to place women into the center of population discussions as subjects, not objects of policy, and to reorient family planning and health programs toward meeting the br...

In mid-January, 2016, health ministers from diff erent Latin American countries made public recommendations to women and couples to postpone pregnancy for 6 months to 2 years in the face of the Zika virus outbreak. These recommendations seemed out of place in view of the fact that 56% of pregnancies in the region are unintended. Poor quality of sex education, poor access to contraception, high ...

In India, Pregnancy can be terminated till 20 weeks under Medical Termination of Act, 1971. After that, either one has to go for illegal abortion or forcefully have bear the child. women right but with a limitation and this caused not only serious social, legal as well reproductive health issue in especially about their safe abortion. Abortion services should available all girls fullest extent ...

In Australia today, trans and gender diverse people face daily indignities in a myriad of contexts, including when accessing sexual reproductive health care. This article illuminates some the barriers that experience seeking care illustrates how these obstacles violate human rights. It concludes with recommendations regarding reforms to better protect rights dignity Australia.

background: research in reproductive health (rh) has been located in the core of women’s health research. providing accurate information through conducting scientific and controlled research is essential, but increased number of research in the world especially in developing countries in rh area in order to introduce advanced technologies has been resulted in much unethical, illegal and abusive...

This article examines the high prevalence of primary and secondary infertility in low-resource countries. Provision of assisted reproductive technology (ART) to overcome both female and male infertility is in line with the reproductive rights agenda developed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo 15 years ago. In addition to the right to control fertility...

Are women with disabilities owed equitable access to reproductive health services, including family planning, contraception, screening for sexually transmitted infections, maternal health services, and fertility services? Or are there circumstances in which disability is a reason to deny access to such services? Conversely, should women with certain disabilities have access to procedures such a...