| NEWSLETTER September 2025 | | WELCOMING A NEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (interim) | | As of 1 September 2025, we are delighted to welcome Sapna Desai as the interim Editor-in-Chief of the SRHM Journal. Her six-month appointment follows the handover from Emma Pitchforth, whom we warmly congratulate on her new role as Head of the Department of Health and Community Sciences at the University of Exeter. | | We are deeply grateful to Emma, who has served as Executive Editor of the SRHM Journal since 2020. Her contributions have been pivotal to the journal's growth, and we will soon release a podcast conversation between SRHM Chief Executive Eszter Kismödi, Emma and Sapna, reflecting on the past five years and looking ahead to future directions.
Sapna has a longstanding association with SRHM, having served as co-Chair of the Board of Trustees, co-Editor of the South Asia special issue, Associate Editor, and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board.
Sapna's public health work has focussed on SRHR through the life course, health systems and community participation, including with SEWA, the Population Council and academic partners. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and MS in Population and International Health from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She lives in New Delhi, India.
| | | Friday 26 September, 13:00 UTC
This World Contraception Day, join Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, The Pleasure Project and the World Health Organization for the launch of a brand-new systematic review on sexual well-being and contraceptive use – a bold piece of research published in the SRHM Journal, the first of its kind, that explores how pleasure, satisfaction, and sex life concerns influence people's contraceptive discontinuation.
__________________________________________________ Welcome by Sapna Desai | Editor-in-Chief, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)
INTRODUCTORY POEM
by Theresa Mae Caragan | Youth Advisor, Plan International Pilipinas
PANELLISTS
Dr Lianne Gonsalves | Technical Officer, Human Reproduction Special Programme (HRP), World Health Organization (WHO)
Dr Faysal El Kak | President, World Association of Sexual Health and Director of the Women Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Program Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American University of Beirut Medical Center
Dr Samukeliso Dube | Executive Director, FP2030
Moderated by Anne Philpott | Founder, The Pleasure Project __________________________________________________ The full paper, The Sex Effect: The prevalence of sex life reasons for contraceptive discontinuation: A systematic review and meta-analysis will be available online and free to read in the SRHM Journal from
26 September 2025, World Contraception Day. Authors: Mirela Zaneva, Nandita Thatte, Anne Philpott, Clara Maliwa, Rhiana Mills, Lianne Gonsalves | | SRHM at FIGO 2025
We are excited to be at this year's World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Cape Town, 5-9 October 2025.
Stop by booth #77 to learn about our recent publications, call for papers and ongoing initiatives. | | SRHM signs The Porto Proclamation on Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice
At the Inaugural World Sexual Health Assembly in Porto, Portugal, SRHM joined leading global organizations, institutions, and advocates in committing to Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice in a new proclomation. | | The Proclamation proclaims that: - Sexual Health is an essential component of overall health, human dignity, and development.
- Sexual Rights are human rights.
- Through Sexual Justice, we can achieve a more equal and inclusive world.
Building on the achievements of the past decades and at a time when the world is facing political crises, international conflict, humanitarian emergencies, funding cuts, climate change, and widening inequalities, we pledge to advance Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice for all. With this proclamation, we set our strategic priorities to guide collective action and ensure progress with purpose, unity, and accountability. | | | Sexual Justice Roundtable in Porto | | This year's World Sexual Health Day coincided with a landmark event in Portugal: the launch of the World Observatory on Sexual Health, a collaboration between the University of Porto and WAS. Based at the University of Porto, the Observatory will serve as a global hub for knowledge and collaboration, ensuring that evidence drives advocacy, education, policy, and service delivery worldwide. A highlight of the Porto programme was a Sexual Justice Roundtable, which took place 4 September and was chaired by Eszter Kismödi, member of the Executive Committee, Associate Secretary and Chair of the Sexual Rights Committee of WAS, and Chief Executive of SRHM. Panellists included: - Bouchra Assarag – President of Association Ensemble pour la SSR (ESSR) and Director of the SRHM Francophone Africa Hub.
- Elna Rudolph – Immediate Past President of WAS and Clinical Head of My Sexual Health in South Africa.
- Esther Corona-Vargas – Co-chair of the WAS Sexual Justice Initiative.
- Julia Ehrt – Executive Director of ILGA World
Together, they explored concrete pathways to advance sexual justice – bridging global principles with local realities, and emphasising practical action in policy, education, and service delivery.
| | | ONLINE NOW Open issue 2025 The papers in the open issue are published throughout the year on a continuous basis and alongside themed issues and special collections.
We publish a wide range of article types from across the spectrum of SRHR. | | RECENTLY PUBLISHED
EDITORIAL Digital justice and rights:
bridging the fault lines in digital technology and SRHR Priya Nanda, Nina Sun, Emma Pitchforth & Eszter Kismödi Contraceptive care and method use by sexual and gender minority status: insights from a longitudinal panel of sexual and reproductive healthcare patients in Wisconsin Ellie Leong, Christina E. Geddes, Fiona Weeks & Megan L. Kavanaugh Shaping the WHO Sexual Health Assessment of Practices and Experiences Questionnaire:
a descriptive study on the real-world example from Portugal Ana Luísa Patrão, Lianne Gonsalves, Vanessa Brizuela & Pedro Nobre Self-care strategies that support PrEP adherence:
a qualitative study with female sex workers in rural Uganda Lydia Jacenta Nakiganda, David Serwadda, Rosette Nakubulwa, Benjamin R. Bavinton, Andrew E. Grulich
& Stephen Bell Unmet needs and new challenges in young women's sexual and reproductive health and rights:
a qualitative study in Chile's Metropolitan Region Alexandra Obach, Michelle Sadler, Consuelo Robledo, Ciara Wright & Báltica Cabieses Effects of the Dobbs decision on abortion and related service provision among sexual and reproductive health clinics in the United States: results from a qualitative study Jennifer Mueller, Sidney Cech, Octavia Mulhern & Alicia VandeVusse Between contraception and hormones:
a qualitative analysis of the lived experiences of former contraceptive pill users Jana Niemann, Lisa Glaum, Lea Hofmann, Nadja Freymüller & Liane Schenk Insights from focus groups with trans and gender-diverse people with endometriosis:
stories you tell, stories you don't Maddalena Giacomozzi, Jasmine Brazelton, Khushi Jeswani, Donna Ruumpol, Petra Verdonk & Annemiek Nap Facilitators and barriers of maternal and infant healthcare access for undocumented migrants in the first 1000 days of life:
a systematic review of the literature Caterina Montagnoli, Nathalie Bettina Neeser, Bernice Simone Elger & Tenzin Wangmo Determinants of short interpregnancy intervals in high-income countries: a systematic review J Dunne, D Foo, J Jancey, G Pereira, B Kefale, DG Belay, G Dhamrait, AT Gebremedhin, KB Mruts, SD Nyadanu, A Roy & GA Tessema | | | Sexual Justice, Knowledge, and Action:
World Sexual Health Day 2025 On 4 September, the SRHR community comes together to mark World Sexual Health Day, convened by the World Association for Sexual Health. | | Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalization On 9 September 2025, SRHM hosted a thought-provoking webinar to launch the open-access book Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalisation. | | Every Friday we bring you thought-provoking discussions with leading experts in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Together, we'll dive into the latest research, pressing current events, and the powerful movements shaping SRHR around the world. The SRHM Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify as well as other podcast platforms. | | | Global progress in abortion law reform since the International Conference on Population and Development
A conversation with Katie Mayall, Laurenne Ajayi, and Caitlin Gruer, moderated by Eszter Kismödi. | | | In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, we speak with the authors of the article Global progress in abortion law reform: a comparative legal analysis since the International Conference on Population and Development published in the SRHM Journal. Together, they unpack three decades of global shifts in abortion law, drawing on unique legal mapping by the Center for Reproductive Rights. | | | |
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