Editorial
1 Jane Cottingham, Eszter Kismödi, Julia Hussein
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters – What's in a name?
Commentaries
4 Joanna N Erdman
The gender injustice of abortion laws
9 Caitlin R Williams, Benjamin Mason Meier
Ending the abuse: the human rights implications of obstetric violence and the promise of rights-based policy to realise respectful maternity care
12 Jennifer Thomson, Fran Amery, Melanie Channon, Mahesh Puri
What's missing in MHM? Moving beyond hygiene in menstrual hygiene management
Review articles
16 Cynthia Khamala Wangamati, Gladys Yegon, Johanne Sundby, Ruth Jane Prince
Sexualised violence against children: a review of laws and policies in Kenya
29 Sofia Gruskin, Vithika Yadav, Antón Castellanos-Usigli, Gvantsa Khizanishvili, Eszter Kismödi
Sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure: meaningfully engaging the perfect triangle
41 Verónica Undurraga
Criminalisation under scrutiny: how constitutional courts are changing their narrative by using public health evidence in abortion cases
52 Gianna Robbers, Joshua P Vogel, Glen Mola, John Bolgna, Caroline SE Homer
Maternal and newborn health indicators in Papua New Guinea – 2008-2018
69 Thuy Trinh, Alexis F Leal, Maeve B Mello, Melanie M Taylor, Roxanne Barrow, Teodora E Wi, Mary L Kamb
Syphilis management in pregnancy: a review of guideline recommendations from countries around the world
Research articles
83 Charlotte Kühlbrandt
Confronting racism in family planning: a critical ethnography of Roma health mediation
93 Susan B Schaffnit, Mark Urassa, David W Lawson
“Child marriage” in context: exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania
106 Sara E Casey, Victoria J Steven, Julianne Deitch, Erin Files Dumas, Meghan C Gallagher, Stephanie Martinez, Catherine N Morris, Raoza Vololona Rafanoharana, Erin Wheeler
“You must first save her life”: community perceptions towards induced abortion and post-abortion care in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
118 Courtney Kerestes, Kelsey Sheets, Colleen K Stockdale, Abbey J Hardy-Fairbanks
Prevalence, attitudes and knowledge of misoprostol for self-induction of abortion in women presenting for abortion at Midwestern reproductive health clinics
126 Diana Suk-Chin Law, Chai-Eng Tan, Seng-Fah Tong
Influences on the decision to use contraception among Sarawakian women with diabetes: a qualitative exploration
136 Diane Duclos, Francesca L Cavallaro, Tidiane Ndoye, Sylvain L Faye, Issakha Diallo, Caroline A Lynch, Mareme Diallo, Adama Faye, Loveday Penn-Kekana
Critical insights on the demographic concept of “birth spacing”: locating Nef in family well-being, bodies, and relationships in Senegal
146 Goleen Samari
Women's empowerment in Egypt: the reliability of a complex construct
160 Cynthia Beavin, Deborah L Billings, Susana Chávez
Activist framing of abortion and use for policy change in Peru
168 Hiroaki Matsuura
Exploring the association between the constitutional right to health and reproductive health outcomes in 157 countries
181 Maureen Murphy, Jeffrey B Bingenheimer, Junior Ovince, Mary Ellsberg, Manuel Contreras-Urbina
The effects of conflict and displacement on violence against adolescent girls in South Sudan: the case of adolescent girls in the Protection of Civilians Site in Juba
192 Camilla Palm, Birgitta Essén, Sara Johnsdotter
Sexual health counselling targeting girls and young women with female genital cutting in Sweden: mind-body dualism affecting social and health care professionals’ perspectives
203 Heidi Moseson, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Soukeyna Diallo, Amy Sakho
Infanticide in Senegal: results from an exploratory mixed-methods study
215 Catriona A Towriss, Tamsin K Phillips, Kirsty Brittain, Allison Zerbe, Elaine J Abrams, Landon Myer
The injection or the injection? Restricted contraceptive choices among women living with HIV
228 Janet Perkins, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Shema Mhajabin, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Tapas Mazumder, Mohammad Rifat Haider, Shams El Arifeen
Humanised childbirth: the status of emotional support of women in rural Bangladesh
248 Dominick Shattuck, Sharada P Wasti, Naramaya Limbuc Nokafu Sandra Chipanta, Christina Riley
Men on the move and the wives left behind: the impact of migration on family planning in Nepal
262 Ruth Nara, Amanda Banura, Angel M Foster
Exploring Congolese refugees’ experiences with abortion care in Uganda: a multi-methods qualitative study
272 Hartley Feld, Verónica Rojas, Ana Maria Linares
“We keep quiet”: exploring the context of pregnancy intention in a low-resource community in Ecuador
287 Gilbert Gravino, Liza Caruana-Finkel
Abortion and methods of reproductive planning: the views of Malta's medical doctor cohort
Perspectives
304 Amit Sengupta
Maternal health in underserved tribal India
307 Ernst Patrick Graamans, Eefje Smet, Steven ten Have
Legislation against girl circumcision: a cultural psychological understanding of prohibition
310 Jean Jose (Jimmy) Nzau, Benediction Mbaikar Denemadjbe, Erin Files Dumas, Mariela A Rodriguez
Catalysing change for reproductive health in Chad through a multi-stakeholder coalition
313 Antón Castellanos-Usigli, Doortje Braeken-van Schaik
The Pleasuremeter: exploring the links between sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure in sexual history-taking, SRHR counselling and education
316 Carly A Comins, Sheree R Schwartz, Katherine Young, Sharmistha Mishra, Vijayanand Guddera, Mfezi Mcingana, Deliwe R Phetlhu, Harry Hausler, Stefan Baral
Contextualising the lived experience of sex workers living with HIV in South Africa: a call for a human-centred response to sexual and reproductive health and rights
Collection: Accelerating accountability for SRHR
319 Gita Sen, Eszter Kismödi, Anneka Knutsson
Moving the ICPD agenda forward: challenging the backlash
323 Natalia Kanem
The battle for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
326 Rebecca Brown, Eszter Kismödi, Rajat Khosla, S Malla, Lucy Asuagbor, Ximena Andión-Ibanez, Sofia Gruskin
A sexual and reproductive health and rights journey: from Cairo to the present
329 Rajat Khosla, Avni Amin, Pascale Allotey, Carmen Barroso, Asha George, Anita Hardon, Ian Askew
“Righting the wrongs”: addressing human rights and gender equality through research since Cairo
333 Susana T Fried, Aziza Ahmed, Luisa Cabal
Tensions and exclusions: the knotty policy encounter between sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV
336 Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Marina Plesons, Arup Barua, Anshu Mohan, Meheret Melles-Brewer, Danielle Engel
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights: a stock-taking and call-to-action on the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
340 Tom Shakespeare, Shaffa Hameed, Lizzie Kiama
Actions, not words: progress since ICPD on disability and SRHR
343 Shirin Heidari, Monica A Onyango, Sarah Chynoweth
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian crises at ICPD25+ and beyond: consolidating gains to ensure access to services for all
346 Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Avni Amin
Violence against women: where are we 25 years after ICPD and where do we need to go?
349 Priya Nanda, Sahil Tandon
“The Times They Are A-Changin”: using technology to enable ASRHR 25 years post-ICPD
Editor-in-Chief: Julia Hussein
Chief Executive: Eszter Kismödi
Managing Editor: Pete Chapman, Sarah Pugh
Monitoring Editor: Pathika Martin
Communications Manager: Jessica MacKinnon
Communications Officer: Alexane Bremshey
Finance Manager: Elisabeta Pashaj, Lance Stewart
Operations Manager: Edna Epelu
Associate Editors: Laura Ferguson, Nambusi Kyegombe, Emma Pitchforth, Mindy Jane Roseman, Nina Sun, Joyce Wamoyi
Peer reviewers:
Ayse Nurdagul Akin, Ababe Alemu Anshebo, Samuel Kojo Antobam, Sarah Ashraf, Mary Rose Bagita, Elizabeth Bartelt, Hyam Bashour, Jacqueline Bell, Eran Bendavid, Maria Berghs, Isha Bhallamudi, Deborah Billings, Fiona Bloomer, Pablo Shiladitya Boze, Naomi Braine, Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Megan Casebolt, Sarah Casey, John B Casterline, Dennis Fuh Chenwi, Manuela Colombini, Rasha Dabash, Sapna Desai, Nayana Dhavan, Farah Diaz-Tello, Andrea Dibben, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Jatinder Dillon, Deborah Diniz, Sandra Downing, Diane Duclos, Meghan Eagen-Torkko, Gillian Einstein, Lisa Eklund, Hala Eldamanhoury, Khalifa Elmusharaf, Olivia Engle, Dabney P Evans, Nkoli Nwakego Ezumah, Bridget Ferguson, Laura Ferguson, Jessica Fields, Rebecca Fish, Melissa Garcia, Sandra Garcia, Camila Gianella, Margaret Giorgio, Nancy E Glass, Ellen Gruenbaum, Bridget Haire, Siobán D Harlow, Kahabi Isangula, Smarajit Jana, Ruvani Jayaweera, Saira Parveen Jolly, Rachel Jones, Hari Bahadur Karki, Angela Kelly-Hanku, Eszter Kismödi, Vesile Koçak, Sandra Krause, Nambusi Kyegombe, Nistha Lamba, Laura Laski, Genesis Luigi, Therese McGinn, Kazuyo Machiyama, Monica Magadi, Rupsa Malik, Rozliza Manaf, Chi Mgbako, Celine Miani, Elizabeth A Mosley, Moses Ndegwa Mutiga, Ndeye Fatou Ndiaye, Peter Ngatia Nguura, Michelle Oberman, Jenny O'Donnell, Oduro Oppong-Nkrumah, Camilla Palm, Anne Philpott, Melanie Pleaner, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Bill Powell, Latika Maskey Pradhan, Manas Ranjan Pradhan, Sarah Pugh, Martha Rac, Akila Radhakrishnan, Emma Radovich, Ana Maria Ramirez, TK Sundari Ravindran, Mohammad Rifat Haider, Michele Rivkin-Fish, Kathryn W Roberts, Mindy Jane Roseman, Sharmila Rudrappa, Kabiru Salami, Pikee Saxena, Frederic Seghers, Antonio Serafim, ASM Shahabuddin, Mridula Shankar, Atef el-Shitany, Suzanne Sicchia, Kavita Singh, Chander Skekhar, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Karin Stanzel, Nina Sun, Johanne Sundby, Nicolas Syrett, Jamie Vernaelde, Katherine Wade, Marius Wamsiedel, Felicia Yeung
Cover image: Reshma Valliappan aka Val Resh, Untitled 19, 2008, from oil painting collection ‘The Awakening’. “The Awakening is a series of art work that begun in 2008 and continued till late 2011. It marked my journey of leaving my medications and moving away from conventional understanding of psychosis and schizophrenia.”
Translation:
Françoise de Luca-Lacoste translated abstracts from English to French and Lisette Silva translated abstracts from English into Spanish.
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