July 24 is celebrated as the International Self-care Day.
This past month, from 24 June to 24 July, has been an opportunity to raise awareness on the importance of self-care and self-care interventions, acknowledge their benefits on people's lives and health, and call for the expansion of health systems to include and promote self-care interventions.
Self-care interventions that expand access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) resources, information, and treatment options can improve the quality and comprehensiveness of SRH care.
When self-care interventions are available, accessible, and of good quality, they enhance people's informed choice and support the realization of their human rights — including the rights to security, non-discrimination, privacy, and the highest attainable standard of health.
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) journal has published a range of high-quality articles on self-care interventions aimed at advancing equitable, rights-based access to quality sexual and reproductive health.
Below is a list of recent publications on this topic, including our 2022 themed issue, 'Self-care Interventions and Rights-Based Access'. | | RECENTLY PUBLISHED Supporting self-managed abortion care in "practice not premise": a qualitative study of provider perspectives, roles, and information pathways to care in India Laura E. Jacobson, Caila Brander, Balasubramanian Palanisamy, et al. Acceptability of misoprostol-only medication abortion dispensed by mail-order or retail pharmacy: a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews in the United States Dana M. Johnson, Sruthi Ramaswamy & Rebecca Gomperts Telehealth abortion services via Women on Web in Kenya (2013–2019): a descriptive analysis of the characteristics and motivations of the care seekers Mary Achieng Ouma, Anita Alaze, Kenneth Juma, et al. Lessons learned from developing and implementing digital health tools for self-managed abortion and sexual and reproductive healthcare in Canada, the United States, and Venezuela Génesis Luigi-Bravo, Ana Maria Ramirez, Caitlin Gerdts & Roopan Gill An intersectional approach on menstrual inequity as lived by women in circumstances of socioeconomic vulnerability in an urban and rural setting in Spain: a qualitative study Josefina Pruneda Paz, Andrea García-Egea, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, et al. Pharmacies: an important source of contraception for some adolescents, but not a panacea for all Lianne Gonsalves, Asantesana Kamuyango & Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli Reach, experience, and acceptability of an abortion self-care intervention in Bolivia:
a mixed-methods evaluation Valerie N. Acre, Stephanie Andrea Küng, Christiam Arce, et al. Effects of a clinic-based reproductive empowerment intervention on proximal outcomes of contraceptive use, self-efficacy, attitudes, and awareness and use of survivor services: a cluster-controlled trial in Nairobi, Kenya Jasmine Uysal, Sabrina C. Boyce, Chi-Chi Undie, et al. Missed period? The significance of period-tracking applications in a post-Roe America Bridget G. Kelly & Maniza Habib | | | SRHM JOURNAL THEMED ISSUE:
SELF-CARE INTERVENTIONS AND RIGHTS-BASED ACCESS The SRHM themed issue "Self-Care Interventions and Rights-Based Access", published in 2022, was designed to provide a space for community groups and experts, researchers, policymakers, implementers, donors, advocates and activists to share examples of successes and challenges and explore strategies for introducing and scaling-up access to self-care interventions for SRH with a specific focus on the needs and rights of underserved individuals and populations. | | EDITORIAL Centring rights-based access to self-care interventions Laura Ferguson & Manjulaa Narasimhan
COMMENTARIES Education as an enabler, not a requirement: ensuring access to self-care options for all Caitlin Corneliess, Katelin Gray, Jennifer Kidwell Drake, et al. Regulatory authorities are limiting telemedicine's potential to deliver legal abortion care to everyone in Colombia Juliette Ortiz, Sandra Salazar, Tatiana Lesmes, et al. Safe abortion within the Venezuelan complex humanitarian emergency: understanding context as key to identifying the potential for digital self-care tools in expanding access Génesis Luigi-Bravo & Roopan Kaur Gill Considerations for social accountability in the expansion of self-care for sexual and reproductive health and rights Denis Kibira,Victoria Boydell, Lillian Mworeko & James Kiarie
REVIEWS Reproductive empowerment and contraceptive self-care:
a systematic review Holly M. Burke, Kathleen Ridgeway, Kate Murray, et al. Self-administration of gender-affirming hormones: a systematic review of effectiveness, cost, and values and preferences of end-users and health workers Caitlin E. Kennedy, Ping Teresa Yeh, Jack Byrne, et al. Lubricants for the promotion of sexual health and well-being:
a systematic review Caitlin E. Kennedy, Ping Teresa Yeh, Jingjia Li, et al.
RESEARCH ARTICLES Supporting contraceptive choice in self-care: qualitative exploration of beliefs and attitudes towards emergency contraceptive pills and on-demand use in Accra, Ghana and Lusaka, Zambia Amanda Kalamar, Christine Bixiones, Grace Jaworski, et al. Factors influencing abortion decisions, delays, and experiences with abortion accompaniment in Mexico among women living outside Mexico City: results from a cross-sectional study Camille Garnsey, Alexandra Wollum, Sofía Garduño Huerta, et al. Uptake and provision of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health: findings from a global values and preferences survey Carmen H. Logie, Isha Berry, Laura Ferguson, et al. In-person later abortion accompaniment: a feminist collective-facilitated self-care practice in Latin America Chiara Bercu, Heidi Moseson, Julia McReynolds-Pérez, et al. Feasibility of HPV self-sampling pathway in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal using a human-centred design approach Swastika Shrestha, Saki Thapa, Paul Sims, et al. "No one should be alone in living this process": trajectories, experiences and user's perceptions about quality of abortion care in a telehealth service in Chile Sara Larrea, Camila Hidalgo, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, et al. Digital self-care for improved access to family planning and reproductive health services among adolescents in Rwanda: preliminary findings from a pilot study of CyberRwanda Rebecca Hémono, Laura Packel, Emmyson Gatare, et al. Husbands' concerns and experiences with the progesterone vaginal ring in three sub-Saharan African countries: a mixed methods study Francis Obare,Fatou Mbow, Saumya RamaRao & Avishek Hazra Law, human rights and gender in practice: an analysis of lessons from implementation of self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health Laura Ferguson, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Jose Gutierrez, et al. | | | There is renewed political urgency for advancing abortion research, and SRHM remains committed to strengthening the evidence base around abortion rights to drive policies, laws, regulations and service provision worldwide.
In consultation with partners in research, advocacy and policymaking from across the globe, we have identified priority topics reflecting strategic knowledge gaps and regional priorities.
We are calling for submissions to a special collection on 'Ensuring access to abortion as a matter of rights, equity and justice'.
The deadline for submissions to be considered for the special collection is 31 August 2025. | | | |
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