Editorial
1 Anna Gruending, Pete Chapman, Veloshnee Govender “Imagining the world anew”: a transformative, rights-based agenda for UHC and SRHR in 2021 and beyond
Commentaries
7 Nino Berdzuli, Mikael Ostergren, Ketevan Chkhatarashvili, Martin W Weber, Susanne Carai Sexual and reproductive health and rights: still ground zero for UHC in the WHO European Region
11 Helen Clark, Anna Gruending Invest in health and uphold rights to “build back better” after COVID-19
16 Katharine Footman, Banchiamlack Dessalegn, George Hayes, Kathryn Church Can universal health coverage eliminate unsafe abortion?
22 Lynda Gilby, Meri Koivusalo Universal health coverage: another political space in which to expand the elimination of sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights
26 Felicita Hikuam, Tamaryn L. Crankshaw, Jesper Sundewall Engaging communities: the key to leaving no one behind in the era of UHC
30 Tanvi Monga, Madhabi Bajracharya, Hina Aziz, Lhamo Yangchen Sherpa, Irum Shaikh, Ghulam Shabbir, Popular Gentle, Ghazaleh Samandari Increasing safe abortion access through universal health care: promising signs from Nepal and Pakistan
34 Warisa Panichkriangkrai, Chompoonut Topothai, Nithiwat Saengruang, Jadej Thammatach-aree, Viroj Tangcharoensathien Universal access to sexual and reproductive health services in Thailand: achievements and challenges
40 Yogan Pillay, Gerald Manthalu, Hakiba Solange, Velephi Okello, Mikaela Hildebrand, Jesper Sundewall, Eoghan Brady Health benefits packages: moving from aspiration to action for improved access to quality SRHR through UHC reforms
44 Chelsea L. Ricker, Rebekah Ashmore The importance of power and agency in a universal health coverage agenda for adolescent girls
48 Lisa Seidelmann, Myria Koutsoumpa, Frederik Federspiel, Mit Philips The Global Financing Facility at five: time for a change?
56 Cynthia Khamala Wangamati Comprehensive sexuality education in sub-Saharan Africa: adaptation and implementation challenges in universal access for children and adolescents
Perspective
62 Faysal El Kak The integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights into universal health coverage: a FIGO perspective
Reviews
65 Gabrielle Appleford, Saumya RamaRao, Ben Bellows The inclusion of sexual and reproductive health services within universal health care through intentional design
76 Tamar Kabakian—Khasholian, Harumi Quezada—Yamamoto, Ahmed Ali, Shible Sahbani, Mohamed Afifi, Salman Rawaf, Maha El Rabbat Integration of sexual and reproductive health services in the provision of primary health care in the Arab States: status and a way forward
89 Lisa Owino, Annette Wangong'u, Nerima Were, Allan Maleche The missing link in Kenya's universal health coverage experiment: a preventive and promotive approach to SRHR
106 T. K. Sundari Ravindran, Veloshnee Govender Sexual and reproductive health services in universal health coverage: a review of recent evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Research articles
128 James Akazili, Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, Dominic Anaseba, Veloshnee Govender, Georges Danhoundo, Augustina Koduah Challenges and facilitators to the provision of sexual, reproductive health and rights services in Ghana
143 Bouchra Assarag, El Omrani Sanae, Bezad Rachid Priorities for sexual and reproductive health in Morocco as part of universal health coverage: maternal health as a national priority
159 Sharyn Graham Davies, Najmah Im/moral health care: HIV and universal health coverage in Indonesia
176 Veena Iyer, Dileep Mavalankar, Rachel Tolhurst, Ayesha De Costa Perceptions of quality of care during birth at private Chiranjeevi facilities in Gujarat: lessons for Universal Health Coverage
193 Clara Juárez-Ramírez, Gustavo Nigenda, Alma L. Sauceda-Valenzuela, Aremis Villalobos Lags in the provision of obstetric services to indigenous women and their implications for universal access to health care in Mexico
211 Godfrey Kangaude, Ernestina Coast, Tamara Fetters Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and universal health coverage: a comparative policy and legal analysis of Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia
226 Shiang Cheng Lim, Yee Chern Yap, Sima Barmania, Veloshnee Govender, Georges Danhoundo, Michelle Remme Priority-setting to integrate sexual and reproductive health into universal health coverage: the case of Malaysia
250 Naomi Lince-Deroche, Elizabeth A Sully, Lauren Firestein, Taylor Riley Budgeting for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights under universal health coverage
269 Muriel Mac-Seing, Kate Zinszer, Bryan Eryong, Emma Ajok, Olivier Ferlatte, Christina Zarowsky The intersectional jeopardy of disability, gender and sexual and reproductive health: experiences and recommendations of women and men with disabilities in Northern Uganda
284 Najmah, Sari Andajani, Sharyn Graham Davies Perceptions of and barriers to HIV testing of women in Indonesia
298 Manjulaa Narasimhan, Carmen H. Logie, Alice Gauntley, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Karima Gholbzouri, Nandi Siegfried, Heather Abela, Leopold Ouedraogo Self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights for advancing universal health coverage
315 Bang Nguyen Pham, Maxine Whittaker, Anthony D. Okely, William Pomat Measuring unmet need for contraception among women in rural areas of Papua New Guinea
332 Lucas Godoy Garraza, Federico Tobar, Iván Rodríguez Bernate Out-of-pocket spending for contraceptives in Latin America
342 Wan-Ju Wu, Aparna Tiwari, Nandini Choudhury, Indira Basnett, Rita Bhatt, David Citrin, Scott Halliday, Lal Kunwar, Duncan Maru, Isha Nirola, Sachit Pandey, Hari Jung Rayamazi, Sabitri Sapkota, Sita Saud, Aradhana Thapa, Alisa Goldberg, Sheela Maru Community-based postpartum contraceptive counselling in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods evaluation
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.
Cover photo:
Snowy day on New Beach, Thessaloniki, Greece. Photographer: Chris Karidis
Funding: This themed issue has been funded by The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) and the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), a cosponsored programme executed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Authors are responsible for the content of their articles which do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the funders
Peer reviewers:
Barbara Baird, Ben Bellows, Helen Benedict Lasimbang, Lethia Bernard, Ann Biddlecom, Adriana Biney, Kirsten I Black, Victoria Boydell, Claire Brolan, Thanh Cong Bui, Irene Capelli, Roberto Castro, Arachu Castro, Nirali Chakraborty, Kathya Lorena Cordova-Pozo, Jane Cottingham, Marilen Danguilan, Blair G Darney, Sharyn Davies, Billie de Haas, Sapna Desai, Nicola Desmond, Anubal Faúndes, Abbey J Hardy-Fairbanks, Katharine Footman, Alexandra Gartrell, Ursula Giedion, Jessica Gipson, Veloshnee Govender, Jamison Green, Sofia Gruskin, Pande Putu Januraga, Austin Johnson, Gary Jones, Rachel Joness, Melissa Kang, Lucy Kanya, Louise A Keogh, Evert Ketting, Michael Kunnujio, Mona Loutfy, Priscilla Magrath, Anita Makins, Laura Miranda, Glen Liddell Mola, Karen Marie Moland, Emmanuel Morhe, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Jenny Munro, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Ann Nolan, Emilomo Ogbe, Kristine Husey Onarheim, Rose Ndakala Oronje, Julie Pannetier, Katrina Perehudoff, Anne Pfitzer, James Phillips, Billie Powell, Martha Rac, Sundari Ravindran, Laura Reichenbach, Michelle Remme, Mario Reyes Festin, Felix Rigoli, Rachel Robinson, James Rosen, Sam Rowlands, Ana Lorena Ruano, Nicole Salisbury, Frederic Seghers, Gamal Serour, Bonnie K Shepard, Ronli Sifris, Ashish Srivastava, Jesper Sundewall, Joar Svanemyr, Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Jurrien Toonen, Ashley Vandermorris, Anna Whelan, Lisa Wynn
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