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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. www.srhm.org

09/10/2025

📊 New in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters:

“Contraceptive care and method use by sexual and gender minority status: insights from a longitudinal panel of sexual and reproductive healthcare patients in Wisconsin”
by Ellie Leong, Christina E. Geddes, Fiona Weeks, and Megan L. Kavanaugh.

This study analysed data from 900 patients using publicly funded SRH services in Wisconsin (2020–2023). Findings show that barriers to contraception — including affordability challenges and missed healthcare visits — limit people’s ability to use their preferred contraceptive methods.

These barriers had a stronger negative impact for sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients, who were less likely to report satisfaction or preferred method use after facing obstacles to care. The findings highlight persistent gaps in healthcare systems that are not yet fully equipped to serve all patients equitably.

🔗 Read the full article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2025.2544432

08/10/2025

📢 New SRHM Journal article

Since abortion was legalised in 1973 through Roe v. Wade, the anti-abortion movement in the United States has sought to halt abortion services — often by demonising abortion doctors.

A new study examines how hatred of abortion providers is being propagated through YouTube videos, particularly following the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

Analysing 291 videos, the authors found that abortion providers were portrayed as:
1️⃣ Manipulative (deceptive, greedy, biased)
2️⃣ Villainous (brutal murderers)
3️⃣ Uncaring (harming women)
4️⃣ Immoral

After 2022, the videos increasingly focused on patient regret and on portraying doctors as harmful — potentially fuelling hatred towards abortion providers and deterring people from seeking or offering care.

🔍 Read the full paper:
“How hatred of abortion providers is propagated in social media: an investigation of YouTube videos”
by Paula Tavrow, Jenny Lee, Frankie Guevara, Ashley Lopez, Cate Schroeder & Aparna Sridhar
👉 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2025.2569200

05/10/2025

📢 SRHM is at the FIGO Congress in Cape Town! 🌍
Come visit us at booth no. 77 to explore our latest publications, connect with our team, and learn more about how SRHM bridges knowledge and action for SRHR. ✨

03/10/2025

👉Rights and evidence-based frameworks place bodily autonomy at the center of the conversation, recognising surrogacy as an expression of a person’s right to make decisions about their body free from coercion and penalization.

✊It emphasizes non-discrimination and equality, calling for laws and policies that protect surrogates, children, and intended parents regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, migration status, or economic class.

🌏Central the webinar discussion will be the separation of rights-based approaches to surrogacy from narratives that conflate it with trafficking and exploitation, and the harmful impact of criminalization on bodily autonomy, health, and justice.

🔗 REGISTER HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/surrogacy-as-a-matter-of-sexual-and-reproductive-justice

A collaborative initative by Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), the Center for Reproductive Rights, Just Futures Collaborative, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice.

Hear from diverse voices from the SRHR global community:
🔵Chandy Eng | Executive Director of Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC)
🔵Sarojini Nadimpally | Co-founder of Sama Resource Group for Women & Health
🔵Nerima Were | Legal Director at The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)
🔵Verónica Esparza | Research Coordinator, Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida GIRE, A.C.
🔵Subha Wijesiriwardena | Co-director of Just Futures Collaborative Collective

01/10/2025

📣Join Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), the Center for Reproductive Rights, Just Futures Collective, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice for a webinar which situates surrogacy within the wider framework of sexual and reproductive justice, human rights, and bodily autonomy.

🌍The webinar will explore human-rights approaches to surrogacy, the effects of criminalization and prohibition, and evidence-informed regulatory and feminist perspectives. The discussion will show how surrogacy can be grounded in autonomy, dignity, equality, and protection from exploitation.

👉Guided by an intersectional lens, the webinar will examine how gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, migration, economic inequality, and labour rights shape surrogacy.

✊Participants will also consider evidence on how restrictive frameworks undermine rights and discuss strategies for coalition-building and advocacy across movements.

🔗REGISTER HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/surrogacy-as-a-matter-of-sexual-and-reproductive-justice

Speakers include:

🔵Sarojini Nadimpally | Co-founder of Sama Resource Group for Women and Health

🔵Subha Wijesiriwardena | Co-director of Just Futures Collective

🔵Nerima Were | Legal Director at The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)

🔵Eng Chandy | Executive Director of Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC)

Moderated by SRHM Chief Executive, Eszter Kismodi.

With further speakers to be announced soon!

This is a critical conversation for the community, not to be missed.

29/09/2025

Reproductive Rights are Human Rights.

Congratulations to the team at the Center for Reproductive Rights on this campaign for .

🌍 On , we reaffirm that access to safe, legal, and respectful abortion care is a fundamental part of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Restrictive laws and stigma continue to put lives at risk. Evidence shows that rights-based approaches save them.

At SRHM, we continue to publish and share knowledge that informs policy, practice, and advocacy for safe abortion worldwide.

👉 Explore our latest research: https://www.srhm.org/our-journals/?filters%5B%5D=language:english

22/09/2025

📣Effects of the Dobbs decision on abortion and SRH services in the US.

In 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, opening the way for states to impose their own restrictions or protections.

This qualitative study by Jennifer Mueller, Sidney Cech, Octavia Mulhern & Alicia VandeVusse from the Guttmacher Institute explores how these policy shifts are reshaping the work of sexual and reproductive health clinics across the country:

👉In states with fewer restrictions, staff are adapting to see as many patients as possible.

👉In states with more restrictions, staff face severe challenges in providing abortion, counselling for pregnant patients, and miscarriage care.

👉Across contexts, clinics remain committed to ensuring access to essential sexual and reproductive health services.

Read the full study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2025.2557074

19/09/2025

🎙️ New Podcast: “FGM in Africa: Politics of Criminalisation”

In this episode, we dig deep into Female Ge***al Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalisation (ed. Satang Nabaneh) to explore:

🌍How historical and colonial legacies shape laws around FGM today.

🌍The tensions between global human rights frameworks and local norms.

🌍Why criminalisation alone isn’t always enough — and what other tools are needed for legal protections to become real protections.

👉 Listen now wherever you find your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/female-ge***al-mutilation-in-africa-politics-of/id1558099164?i=1000727463656

18/09/2025

Few rights, great threats, endless struggles.
This new commentary by Nathália Machado Cardoso, Mariana Pércia Namé de Souza Franco, Luiza Magalhães Cadioli, Ana Flávia Pires Lucas d'Oliveira & Elisabeth Meloni Vieira examines a decade of setbacks and resistance in the fight for legal abortion in Brazil.

Despite abortion being permitted in only three limited cases — r**e, risk to life, and anencephaly — even these rights have been systematically undermined. Rising far-right influence, anti-gender discourses, and attempts to criminalise legal abortion have intensified barriers to access.

Yet, resistance has been powerful. Feminist movements, progressive lawmakers, the judiciary, and mass mobilisation have fought back through protests, litigation, and efforts to socially decriminalise abortion.

The piece also highlights the role of strategic ignorance in perpetuating state inaction, and the importance of academic research in documenting and resisting these erosions of rights.

Read the full commentary: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2025.2555050

09/09/2025

📢 Happening Today!
Join us at 09:30 EDT | 14:30 UK | 15:30 CET| 16:30 EAT for:
“Female ge***al mutilation in Africa: Politics of criminalisation”

A conversation with Satang Nabaneh, Angela J Dawson, Samuel Kimani, and Laura Nyirinkindi on bridging the gap between law and lived realities.

📌 Check your inbox for your Zoom link!

https://events.humanitix.com/fgm-in-africa

07/09/2025

👉Only 2 days to go! Don’t miss this important SRHM webinar:
“Female ge***al mutilation in Africa: Politics of criminalisation”
📅 Tuesday 9 September 2025
09:30 EDT | 14:30 UK | 15:30 CET| 16:30 EAT

Join leading experts to explore how criminalisation policies impact FGM prevention efforts across Africa.

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/fgm-in-africa

04/09/2025

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In February 2019, Reproductive Health Matters (RHM) changes its name to Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM). Sexual health and rights have always been a part of the discourse of RHM, and we wish to fully represent the breadth and extensiveness of sexual health and rights, and reproductive health and rights, in our name.

Our name represents our vision: a world in which sexual and reproductive health and rights are recognized as fundamental human rights and matters of social justice; and in which the sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of people are fully respected, protected and fulfilled, regardless of age, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, geographical residence, race, colour, language, social status or other social, political or personal attributes.