Editorial
1 Julia Hussein COVID-19: What implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally?
4 Julia Hussein A round-up of articles in 2020
Calls to action
7 Gita Sen, Françoise Girard, Noelene Nabulivou, Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Geetanjali Misra, Susana Chavez, Marisa Viana The Time is NOW: an urgent call to action on the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
9 Lenka Benova, Nandini DP Sarkar, Luther-King O Fasehun, Aline Semaan, Clara Affun-Adegbulu, for the MATCO Solutions and Innovations Working Group A call to action: documenting and sharing solutions and adaptations in sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health care provision during the COVID-19 pandemic
Commentaries
13 Morgan Carpenter The OHCHR background note on human rights violations against intersex people
17 Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Elsie Akwara, Danielle Engel, Marina Plessons, Mengistu Asnake, Sunil Mehra, Bruce Dick, Jane Ferguson Progress in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights globally between 1990 and 2016: what progress has been made, what contributed to this, and what are the implications for the future?
28 Jaime Todd-Gher, Payal K Shah Abortion in the context of COVID-19: a human rights imperative
31 Samantha Ruggiero, Kristyn Brandi, Alice Mark, Maureen Paul, Matthew F Reeves, Odile Schalit, Kelly Blanchard, Katherine Key, Sruthi Chandrasekaran Access to later abortion in the United States during COVID-19: challenges and recommendations from providers, advocates, and researchers
34 Julie G Thorne, Marie Buitendyk, Righa Wawuda, Brianne Lewis, Caitlin Bernard, Rachel F Spitzer The reproductive health fall-out of a global pandemic
37 Mariana Prandini Assis, Sara Larrea Why self-managed abortion is so much more than a provisional solution for times of pandemic
40 Michelle Lokot, Yeva Avakyan Intersectionality as a lens to the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for sexual and reproductive health in development and humanitarian contexts
44 Chaturachinda K, Boonthai N A commentary on the recent ruling by the Thai Constitution Court in relation to abortion law in Thailand
46 Michelle Sadler, Gonzalo Leiva, Ibone Olza COVID-19 as a risk factor for obstetric violence
49 Marta Schaaf, Victoria Boydell, Sara Van Belle, Derick W Brinkerhoff, Asha George Accountability for SRHR in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
54 Liza Caruana-Finkel Abortion in the time of COVID-19: perspectives from Malta
57 Kranti Suresh Vora, Shahin Saiyed, Senthilkumar Natesan Impact of COVID-19 on family planning services in India
60 Clara Affun-Adegbulu, Nandini D P Sarkar, Ibukun-Oluwa Abejirinde, Sara Van Belle, Opemiposi Adegbulu Health systems recovery from COVID-19: a window of opportunity for (in)fertility care
63 Alka Barua, Anubha Rastogi, Deepa V, Dipika Jain, Manisha Gupte, Rupsa Mallik, Suchitra Dalvie The MTP 2020 Amendment Bill: anti-rights subjectivity
66 Cristina Alonso Integrating the midwifery model of care into abortion services
69 Cynthia Khamala Wangamati, Johanne Sundby, The ramifications of COVID-19 on maternal health in Kenya
72 Jessica DeMulder, Cara Kraus-Perotta, Hussain Zaidi Sexual and gender minority adolescents must be prioritised during the global COVID-19 public health response
74 Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, Giulia Zanini, Caitlin Gerdts Consequences of gestational age limits for people needing abortion care during the COVID-19 pandemic
77 Lauren Jacobson, Alexandra Regan, Shirin Heidari, Monica Adhiambo Onyango Transactional sex in the wake of COVID-19: sexual and reproductive health and rights of the forcibly displaced
81 Priya Nanda, Sahil Tandon, Aarushi Khanna Virtual and essential - adolescent SRHR in the time of COVID-19
85 Priya Nanda, Tom Newton Lewis, Priya Das, Suneeta Krishnan From the frontlines to centre stage: resilience of frontline health workers in the context of COVID-19
90 Ruvani T Jayaweera, Heidi Moseson, Caitlin Gerdts Misoprostol in the era of COVID-19: a love letter to the original medical abortion pill
96 Khadijeh Azimi The trend of girl child marriage in Iran based on national census data
Review articles
99 Chimaraoke Izugbara, Seun Bakare, Meroji Sebany, Boniface Ushie, Frederick Wekesah, Joan Njagi Regional legal and policy instruments for addressing LGBT exclusion in Africa
113 Noura Alomair, Samah Alageel, Nathan Davies, Julia V Bailey Sexually transmitted infection knowledge and attitudes among Muslim women worldwide: a systematic review
129 Mariam Siddiqui, Ishu Kataria, Katherine Watson, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli A systematic review of the evidence on peer education programmes for promoting the sexual and reproductive health of young people in India
160 Erin Aylward, Stuart Halford How gains for SRHR in the UN have remained possible in a changing political climate
175 Cecilia Espinoza, Ghazaleh Samandari, Kathryn Andersen Abortion knowledge, attitudes and experiences among adolescent girls: a review of the literature
196 Shannon N Wood, Celia Karp, Linnea Zimmerman Women’s sexual experiences as a side effect of contraception in low- and middle-income countries: evidence from a systematic scoping review
Research articles
215 Dabney P Evans, Subasri Narasimhan A narrative analysis of anti-abortion testimony and legislative debate related to Georgia’s fetal “heartbeat” abortion ban
232 Nambusi Kyegombe, Rebecca Meiksin, Joyce Wamoyi, Lori Heise, Kirsten Stoebenau, Ana Buller Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex
245 Sheru Muuo, Stella Kagwiria Muthuri, Martin Kavao Mutua, Alys McAlpine, Loraine J Bacchus, Hope Ogego, Martin Bangha, Mazeda Hossain, Chimaraoke Izugbara Barriers and facilitators to care-seeking among survivors of gender-based violence in the Dadaab refugee complex
261 Ryoko Sato, Bilikisu Elewonibi, Sia Msuya, Rachel Manongi, David Canning, Iqbal Shah Why do women discontinue contraception and what are the post-discontinuation outcomes? Evidence from the Arusha Region, Tanzania
277 Oluwatosin Adebimpe Makinde, Ayodeji Matthew Adebayo Knowledge and perception of sexual and reproductive rights among married women in Nigeria
291 Ellen McCammon, Suchi Bansal, Luciana E Hebert, Shirley Yan, Alicia Menendez, Melissa Gilliam Exploring young women’s menstruation-related challenges in Uttar Pradesh, India, using the socio-ecological framework
303 Andrea Wilson, Helgar Musyoki, Lisa Avery, Eve Cheuk, Peter Gichangi, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Janet Musimbe, Stella Leung, James Blanchard, Stephen Moses, Sharmistha Mishra, Marissa Becker, on behalf of the Transitions Study Team Sexual and reproductive health among adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya
313 Areej Othman, Abeer Shaheen, Maysoon Otoum, Mohannad Aldiqs, Iqbal Hamad, Maysoon Dabobe, Ana Langer, Jewel Gausman Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health: perspectives of Jordanian and Syrian parents
324 Jane Freedman, Tamaryn L Crankshaw, Victoria M Mutambara Sexual and reproductive health of asylum seeking and refugee women in South Africa: understanding the determinants of vulnerability
335 Kudzai Bakare, Shelene Gentz Experiences of forced sterilisation and coercion to sterilise among Women Living with HIV (WLHIV) in Namibia: an analysis of the psychological and socio-cultural effects
349 Molly Johnston, Giuliana Fuscaldo, Nadine Mar Richings, StellaMay Gwini, Sally Catt Cracked open: exploring attitudes on access to egg freezing
363 Animesh Biswas, Sathyanarayan Doraiswamy, Abu Sayeed Md. Abdullah, Nabila Hossain Purno, Fazlur Rahman, MA Halim Exploring the perceptions, practices and challenges to maternal and newborn health care among the underprivileged teagardens community in Bangladesh: a qualitative study
373 Lorraine Poncet, Henri Panjo, Armelle Andro, Virginie Ringa Caesarean delivery in a migration context: the role of prior delivery in the host country
384 Ankita Shukla, Rajib Acharya, Abhishek Kumar, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kumudha Aruldas, Niranjan Saggurti Client-provider interaction: understanding client experience with family planning service providers through the mystery client approach in India
396 Blas Radi Reproductive injustice, trans rights, and eugenics
408 Regina Bash-Taqi, Katherine Watson, Elsie Akwara, Emmanuel Adebayo, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli From commitment to implementation: lessons learnt from the first National Strategy for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone
423 Alfonso Barragués Fernández Accountability for sexual and reproductive health and rights in development practice: building synergies
441 Doris Burtscher, Catrin Schulte-Hillen, Jean-François Saint-Sauveur, Eva De Plecker, Mohit Nair, Jovana Arsenijevic´ “Better dead than being mocked”: an anthropological study on perceptions and attitudes towards unwanted pregnancy and abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo
456 Anteneh Asefa, Barbara McPake, Ana Langer, Meghan A Bohren, Alison Morgan Imagining maternity care as a complex adaptive system: understanding health system constraints to the promotion of respectful maternity care
475 David Musoke, Rawlance Ndejjo, Grace Biyinzika Lubega, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho Use of photovoice to explore the potential role of youth in contributing to maternal health in rural Wakiso district, Uganda
487 Brooke W Bullington, Christine Aristide, Yasson Abha, Henry Kiwango, Aneth Nzali, Doris Peter, Myung Hee Lee, Agrey H Mwakisole, Jennifer A Downs, and Lindsey K Reif Preferences for family planning education among men and women in rural, highly religious Tanzanian communities: a discrete choice experiment
500 Lena R Hann, Andréa Becker The option to look: patient-centred pregnancy tissue viewing at independent abortion clinics in the United States
Commentaries
514 Jane A Hassinger Abortion providers help their clients and themselves when they talk about the fetus
517 Nozer Sheriar Induced abortion and patient centered pregnancy tissue viewing in the Indian context
520 Marijke Alblas A practitioner’s experiences from the Netherlands and South Africa
Perspectives
522 Kathryn Church, Jennifer Gassner, Megan Elliott Reproductive health under Covid-19 – challenges of responding in a global crisis
525 Nuzrath Jahan Bleeding during the pandemic: the politics of menstruation
528 Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Adedire Timilehin Adenuga, Ifunanya Carista Ejidike, Anuoluwapo Adenike Olufosoye Unsafe abortion practices and the law in Nigeria: time for change
Report
531 Jessica MacKinnon, Alexane Bremshey Perspectives from a webinar: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health and rights
Bookshelf
534 A. J. Lowik The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies. Ed. C Bobel, IT Winkler et al.
Corrections
Publisher’s Note
Editor-in-Chief: Julia Hussein
Chief Executive: Eszter Kismödi
Managing Editor: Pete Chapman
Monitoring Editor: Pathika Martin
South Asia Hub Manager: Sanjeeta Gawri
Communications Manager: Jessica MacKinnon
Communications Officer: Alexane Bremshey
Operations Manager: Edna Epelu/Amy Guthrie
Associate Editors: Laura Ferguson, Nambusi Kyegombe, Atsumi Hirose, Emma Pitchforth, Mindy Jane Roseman, Nina Sun, Joyce Wamoyi
Translation:
Françoise de Luca-Lacoste translated abstracts from English to French and Lisette Silva translated abstracts from English to Spanish.
Funding: SRHM’s work in 2020 has been supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Open Society Foundations
Cover image: Intersectionality. Favianna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, sexual freedom and ecology.
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