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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
- Call for proposals: Queering Health System
- SRHM Collection: Ensuring access to abortion as a matter of rights, equity and justice
- SRHM Publications: Recently published papers from the SRHM Open Issue
Knowledge to Action
- SRHM Blog and interviews: Voices from the World Health Assembly 2026
- SRHM Podcast
- Menstrual Justice: A special SRHM Podcast conversation for World Menstrual Health Day
- RightsCon Cancelled: SRHR, Digital Rights, Misuse of Power, and the Demand for Accountability
- People, Planet, and Rights: Connecting Climate Action and SRHR
- SRHM Blog: Defending Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the Aftermath of the RightsCon Cancellation
- SRHM Annual Report 2025
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) is launching a themed issue – in partnership with the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa – on Queering Health Systems. READ THE CALL FOR PROPOSALS HERE The deadline for proposals to be received is 3 July 2026.
In a webinar held on 20 May 2026 the SRHM editorial team and
Guest Editors shared guidance for preparing a strong submission.
The session covered:
- The context and urgency behind the theme
- Insights into what makes a compelling proposal
- Advice from the editorial team behind the issue
- Practical information about submission
Watch or listen to gain the information you need to submit with confidence. |
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| In this webinar and SRHM podcast recording, hear directly from the SRHM editorial team and Guest Editors of the 'Queering Health Systems' themed issue as they share guidance for preparing a strong submission. |
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
Open Issue |
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The annual Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Open Issue brings together research and perspectives on key and emerging issues in sexual and reproductive health and rights.
We welcome ongoing submissions to help advance knowledge, dialogue and action in the field.
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED IN SRHM
Expanding choice in sexual and reproductive health: a systematic scoping review of user perspectives on on-demand self-care productsStephen Bell, Susannah Gibbs, Claire W. Rothschild, Heather Ingold, Lemessa Oljira, Irene Akhigbe, Dinesh Kumar, Marion Subah, Leora Nicole Pillay, Kanwal Qayyum, Eden Demise, Sarah Onyango, Abigail Winskell & Kristen Little
“They’re not used to people asking what they need”: work processes and care practices in feminist abortion accompaniment – a qualitative studyNathália Machado Cardoso, Naomi Braine & Ana Flávia Pires Lucas D’Oliveira
Exploring Somali-born women’s experiences with contraceptive services in Sweden through a reproductive justice lensAnna Wängborg, Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Sahra Saidarab, Cristina A. Mattison, Elin C. Larsson & Helena Kilander
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SRHM Collection:
Ensuring access to abortion as a matter of rights, equity and justice |
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New articles that will be included in SRHM's Collection 'Ensuring access to abortion as a matter of rights, equity and justice' are now available online. Developed with global partners across research, advocacy and policymaking, the Collection responds to a shared call to address critical evidence gaps and advance abortion rights worldwide.
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SRHM was at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, where global health leaders, policymakers, researchers, and advocates came together to shape the future of health priorities worldwide.
Throughout the week of 18–23 May 2026, SRHM shared a series of short interviews featuring diverse voices from across the global health community, highlighting different perspectives, emerging ideas, and conversations shaping health and rights on the global stage.
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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.
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Menstrual Justice
A SRHM Podcast conversation with Lizzie Kiama and Tara Mukeku-Cilolo for World Menstrual Health Day – 28 May
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Disability rights advocate Lizzie Kiama of This Ability Trust Kenya and Tara Mukeku-Cilolo of Fòs Feminista joined Eszter Kismodi of SRHM for a special podcast exploring how menstrual health intersects with inequality, disability justice, public policy, and community care.
The discussion highlighted a critical shift in framing. Menstruation is not only about access to products. It is also about bodily autonomy, education, economic participation, healthcare access, and freedom from shame, stigma, and discrimination.
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RightsCon Cancelled:
SRHR, Digital Rights, Misuse of Power, and the Demand for Accountability
In this SRHM podcast episode, Eszter Kismődi speaks with three outstanding leaders and experts working at the intersection of digital rights and sexual and reproductive justice.
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We were honoured to have Dr. Zahra Stardust, researcher at Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre; Martha Dimitratou, founder and Executive Director of Repro Uncensored; and Kali Sudhra, Executive Director of ESWA, European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance, on the podcast to reflect on what happened behind the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 and why this matters profoundly for sexual and reproductive health and rights, digital justice, and democratic participation globally.
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People, Planet, and Rights: Connecting Climate Action and SRHR
In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, Laura Ferguson, Associate Editor of SRHM, is joined by Angela Baschieri and Martina Yopo DÃaz for a timely conversation on the intersection of climate change and SRHR.
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Drawing from their recent publications in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, the discussion explores how the climate crisis is reshaping reproductive lives across the globe, from fertility decisions and pregnancy outcomes to migration, health systems, and parenting in increasingly unstable environments.
Read the papers published in
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters:
Martina Yopo DÃaz, Valentina Gómez Aguirre and Loreto Watkins
Angela Baschieri and Chiagozie Udeh
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Defending Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the Aftermath of the RightsCon Cancellation
Zahra Stardust reflects on defending sexual and reproductive health and rights following the cancellation of the RightsCon 2026.
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2025 was a year of profound challenges, but also of important progress and transformation for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Across the world, anti-rights and anti-gender movements intensified, humanitarian crises deepened, and funding for rights-based work came under increasing pressure.
At the same time, evidence itself has increasingly been contested, distorted, and politicised.
In this environment, SRHM has remained clear in its purpose and strong in its response:
evidence-based knowledge, grounded in human rights, is power.
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