Sexual & Reproductive Health

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How Strict Abortion Bans Harm Maternal Health

Fellow Priyanka Athalye

From Rare to Rising: The Comeback of Preventable Infant Bleeding

Fellow Kylee Cochran

A Deadly Oversight: Unintended Consequences of Restricting Abortions

Guest Author Alyssa Amendola

The Cost of Costly PrEP

Fellow Priyanka Athalye

Late Diagnoses, Later Births: The PCOS Pattern

Fellow Kylee Cochran

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06.01.2017 a blue and green planet

Duty Bound and Globally Gagged

While details of a Trump-style Global Gag Rule remain unclear, the executive order has the potential to devastate the health of men, women, children, and families alike.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

05.31.2017 A model of The Pill on a black background

Contraception is Preventative Care

Before the ACA, 55 percent of woman between 18 and 34 reported struggling with the cost of birth control at some point. By declaring contraceptives preventive care, the ACA guaranteed patients, regardless of their economic status, the ability to shape their own lives. This guarantee is in jeopardy.

Guest Author Jennifer Childs-Roshak

05.22.2017 Video still from MTV Shuga Season Five, Episode 4, Segment 2 showing Bongi at the doctor's office

Just Don't Call It Edutainment

How the best entertainment can educate: a World Bank study in Nigeria on sexual health behavior change shows that MTV Shuga is making a mark.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

05.01.2017 Dollar bill folded into a the shape of a shirt against a blue background

Minimum Wage as Birth Control

Preventing teen pregnancy requires big picture thinking: policies that address the underlying social and economic problems – the minimum wage being just one of many – are more likely to achieve this goal than policies that focus on narrow targets such as sex education.

Guest Author Lindsey Bullinger

04.17.2017 Graph showing number of contraceptive implants procured and projected number of implanted removals 2010-2019

Implementing Implants

The 3- to 5-year lifespan of contraceptives implanted in 2012 is nearly over, and health clinics that provide insertions are less well-equipped to provide removals.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

04.03.2017 Two large yellow blocks with the letters S, T, and D painted on them

Highlights from the 2015 STD Report

For April STD Awareness Month, four key takeaways from the 2015 Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

01.16.2017 A needlepoint of a uterus in pink and red thread on a grey fabric background

Reproductive Justice: What It Means and Why It Matters (Now, More Than Ever)

People may think reproductive justice is synonymous with reproductive rights, but the two are distinctly and philosophically different.

Guest Authors Osub Ahmed, Christy M. Gamble

12.21.2016 Old gravestone cross with the inscription Mother.

Understanding the US Maternal Mortality Problem

The U.S. has ranked behind most industrialized countries on maternal mortality for years, but stopped publishing an official maternal mortality ratio in 2007. It was this failure that was the impetus for our study.

Guest Author Gene Declercq

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