Title, Table of Contents and Acknowledgements

Table

Editorial
1	Julia Hussein	Exploring inequities, inspiring new knowledge and action
Commentaries
5	Stephen Bell, Elissa Kennedy, Kirsten Black, Andrew Vallely, Lisa Vallely, Glen Mola, John Kaldor, Mary Bagita, Caroline Ninnes, William Pomat, Angela Kelly-Hanku	Youth-centred research to help prevent and mitigate the adverse health and social impacts of pregnancy amongst young Papua New Guineans
13	Joanna N Erdman, Kinga Jelinska, Susan Yanow	Understandings of self-managed abortion as health inequity, harm reduction and social change
20	Alimata Thelma Flora Abdul Karimu	Disabled persons in Ghanaian health strategies: reflections on the 2016 adolescent reproductive health policy
25	Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska	A tough job: recognizing access to abortion as a matter of equality. A commentary on the views of the UN Human Rights Committee in the cases of Mellet v. Ireland and Whelan v. Ireland
Review article
32	Resham Bahadur Khatri, Rajendra Karkee	Social determinants of health affecting utilisation of routine maternity services in Nepal: a narrative review of the evidence
Spotlight
47	Cristina Puig Borràs, Brenda I Álvarez Álvarez	The history of universal access to emergency contraception in Peru: a case of politics deepening inequalities
Research articles
51	Eric Badu, Naomi Gyamfi, Maxwell Preprah Opoku, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Anthony Kweku Edusei	Enablers and barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive health services among visually impaired women in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana
61	Shaffa Hameed	To be young, unmarried, rural and female: intersections of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Maldives
72	Carmen H Logie, Alex Abramovich, Nicole Schott, Kandasi Levermore, Nicolette Jones	Navigating stigma, survival, and sex in contexts of social inequity among young transgender women and sexually diverse men in Kingston, Jamaica
84	Sulakshana Nandi, Deepika Joshi, Preeti Gurung, Chandrakant Yadav, Ganapathy Murugan	Denying access of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups to contraceptive services: a case-study among the Baiga community in Chhattisgarh, India
98	Jenny O’Donnell, Alisa Goldberg, Ellice Lieberman, Theresa Betancourt	“I wouldn't even know where to start”: unwanted pregnancy and abortion decision-making in Central Appalachia
114	Parisa Patel, Mahua Das, Utpal Das	The perceptions, health-seeking behaviours and access of Scheduled Caste women to maternal health services in Bihar, India
126	Hanneke Pot, Bregje C de Kok, Gertrude Finyiza	When things fall apart: local responses to the reintroduction of user-fees for maternal health services in rural Malawi
137	Alba Ruibal	Federalism, two-level games and the politics of abortion rights implementation in subnational Argentina
145	Alison Swartz, Christopher Colvin, Abigail Harrison	The problem or the solution? Early fertility and parenthood in the transition to adulthood in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Editor-in-Chief: Julia Hussein

Chief Executive: Eszter Kismödi

Managing Editor: Sarah Pugh

Monitoring Editor: Pathika Martin

Communications Manager: Jessica MacKinnon

Communications Officer: Alexane Bremshey

Finance Manager: Lance Stewart

Associate Editors: Sapna Desai, Laura Ferguson, Heidi Stoeckl

Peer reviewers:

Hanan Abdul Rahim, Shilu Adhikari, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Tasnim Azim, Stephen Bell, Sian Benyon-Jones, Fiona Bloomer, Elizabeth Borland, Doortje Braeken, Jan Marci Brunson, Eva Burke, Emma Carpenter, Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Anne Cockcroft, Barbara B Crane, Korrie de Koning, Nicole de Wet, Joanna Erdman, Daniel Yaw Fiaveh, Lori R Freedman, Alexandra Gartrell, Carina Hickling, Ruth Iguiniz, Shireen Jejeebhoy, Lovney Kanguru, Louise A Keogh, Purnima Mane, Mary Anne Mercer, Stephanie Miedema, Maria Eugenia Monte, Alison Morgan, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Juliet Richters, Marta Schaaf, Leigh Senderowicz, Gretchen Sisson, Jennifer Strickler, Kranti Vora, Megan Wainwright, Jane Welsh

Translation:

Françoise de Luca-Lacoste translated abstracts from English to French and Lisette Silva translated abstracts from English to Spanish.

Cover photo: Girl beggar on the waterfront, by a middle class couple enjoying the dusk. Marine Drive, Mumbai, India. ©Mark Henley / Panos

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Reproductive Health Matters. This is an Open Access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for sharing and adapting the work for any purpose, even commercially, provided appropriate credit is given with a link to the originally published item, a reference to the author(s) and links to their homepages, reference to the license under which the article is published and a link to this, as well as an indication of any changes that have been made to the original. ISSN (Print) 0968-8080 ISSN (Online) 1460-9576

Funding Acknowledgements

RHM’s work in 2018 has been supported by the Macarthur Foundation and the Open Society Foundation.

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