Reproductive Health
Investing in access to reproductive-health services unequivocally saves lives — and it’s an issue we can no longer afford to ignore - Pamela Barnes
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The Reproductive Revolution: How Women Are Changing the Planet's Future
Aisha, Miriam and Akhi are three young factory workers in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. They are poorly educated and badly paid. But, like millions of other young women, they relish their freedom from the stultifying conformity of rural life, where women are at the constant beck and call of fathers, brothers and husbands.
There is something else. The three women together have 22 siblings. But Aisha plans three children, Miriam two and Akhi just one. They represent a gender revolution that many see as irrevocably tied to a reproductive revolution. Together, the changes are solving what once seemed the most difficult problem facing the future of humanity: growing population.
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How Ultrasound Became Political
The technology has been used to create sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.
A Doctor's Plan to End Patriarchy
Advocating for access to safe abortions, Willie Parker decided to attack the root of the problem.
How Activists Are Protecting Reproductive Rights Under Trump
Taking a page from the anti-abortion lobby, pro-choice groups are pushing proactive legislation at the state level.
How Investing in Reproductive Health Could Pay Off
In determining what area of health requires additional investments, a number of important health issues come to mind—chief among them should be an increased investment in maternal health. Every day, 800 women and girls around the world die of pregnancy and childbirth complications.
I Ditched My Birth Control Pills For A Diaphragm, Because It Lets Me Control My Reproductive Health
So, doctors? Please stop restricting our options. American women have the right to choose how we want to control our reproductive symptoms and what risks we’re willing to take. Personally, I’ll take the slight inconvenience and slightly higher chance of pregnancy with the diaphragm over all the chance of even one of those side effects, any day.
Investing In Women’s Reproductive Health: The Value Of $8
More investment by governments, donors, civil society, and individuals is needed to close this gap and break down barriers to quality reproductive health care. Only then can the reproductive health and rights of these 214 million girls and women be fulfilled. For less than the cost of a pizza, we can help a woman become empowered to pursue her hopes and dreams for the future.
Population and Reproductive Health program
The Population and Reproductive Health program is committed to promoting reproductive health and rights, with a focus on high quality information and services. We place a special emphasis on engaging and serving youth, and believe that young people have the best potential for building and sustaining a movement of change.
Precision Medicine Hits Reproductive Health
In the case of precision medicine, I don’t see disappointment as much as I perceive impatience, a sense that it’s time for precision medicine to “show me the impact.” This moment may be close at hand in reproductive health, where the impact of genetic testing is experienced by many couples in a decidedly non-abstract fashion.
Women's Reproductive Health Awareness And The Role Of Digital Health
While there is no simple solution, awareness combined with an integrated educational solution is key. Digital health, with its innovation, growing venture capital, start-up zeal and popularity can play an important role in women's health.
The Reproductive Revolution: How Women Are Changing the Planet's Future
The population bomb is being defused. It is being done without draconian measures by big government, without crackdowns on our liberties--by women making their own choices.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research has shown that exposure to environmental pollutants may pose the greatest threat to reproductive health.
Gynuity
Gynuity envisions a world in which each individual has access to safe and effective reproductive and maternal health care—delivered where, when, and how needed.
Center for Reproductive Rights
Reproductive freedom lies at the heart of the promise of human dignity, self-determination and equality embodied in both the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Center works toward the time when that promise is enshrined in law in the United States and throughout the world.
Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute believes that good reproductive health policy starts with credible research. Through an interrelated program of high-quality research, evidence-based advocacy and strategic communications, the Institute works to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.
Innovating Education in Reproductive Health
Resources for reproductive health educators worldwide.
Institute for Reproductive Health
IRH contributes to a range of health initiatives and is dedicated to helping women and men make informed choices about family planning. In particular, it offers options for simple, effective fertility awareness-based methods (FAM).
National Institute for Reproductive Health
We’re working toward a society in which each person has the freedom to control their reproductive and sexual lives. We believe that building a strong interconnected, yet decentralized movement focused on changing policy and the public discourse on reproductive health, rights, and justice is essential to reaching our goals.
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) builds Latina power to guarantee the fundamental human right to reproductive health, dignity and justice. We elevate Latina leaders, mobilize our families and communities, transform the cultural narrative and catalyze policy change.
Physicians for Reproductive Health
We are doctors who use evidence, training, and organized action to champion your health care rights
Reproductive Health
Reproductive Health focuses on all aspects of human reproduction. The journal includes sections dedicated to adolescent health, female fertility and midwifery and all content is open access.
Reproductive Health Access Project
We train and support clinicians to make reproductive health care accessible to everyone.
ReproductiveFacts.org
The Vision of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is to be the nationally and internationally recognized leader for multidisciplinary information, education, advocacy and standards in the field of reproductive medicine.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
SRHM is also MORE THAN A JOURNAL. It creates and participates in spaces that motivate improvements in research, policy, services and practice. It contributes to capacity building in knowledge generation. SRHM inspires new rights-based thinking and action in the field of SRHR through various strategic approaches, and through multi-disciplinary global and local partnerships.
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
The UCSF Bixby Center advances reproductive health policy and practice worldwide through research, training and advocacy.
CDC
CDC provides technical assistance, consultation, and training worldwide to help others identify and address male and female reproductive issues, maternal health, and infant health issues.
HHS.gov
Reproductive health addresses the reproductive processes, functions, and system at all stages of life.
PATH
PATH’s work in sexual and reproductive health is guided by key principles of choice, equity, and dignity for all women. Without accurate reproductive health information and access to services and contraceptive options, women face multiple threats to their health and well-being, including sexually transmitted infections such as HIV and human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer, and unintended pregnancies.
United Nations Population Fund
Every individual has the right to make their own choices about their sexual and reproductive health. UNFPA, together with a wide range of partners, works toward the goal of universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including family planning.
WHO
Within the framework of WHO's definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life. Reproductive health, therefore, implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so.
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