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Sustaining Progress—Investing in Adolescent Girls Amidst Global Challenges: Learnings from a donor roundtable
Full text linkThe Coalition for Adolescent Girls (CAG), hosted by the Population Council, in collaboration with Akili Dada, convened a high-level donor roundtable on June 4, 2025. Against the backdrop of funding freezes, policy shifts, and widening global crises, this convening brought together funders, grassroots organizations, adolescent and youth leaders, and global experts, to reflect on emerging trends, lived experiences, and actions needed urgently to ensure adolescent girls remain at the center of global development priorities. This knowledge brief synthesizes key insights from the roundtable discussion. It underscores the critical need for long-term, flexible, and intersectional funding approaches that center adolescent girls as leaders and decision-makers, while offering practical recommendations for funders, implementers, policymakers, and partners to advance equitable, sustainable investments for adolescent girls
How and what do women learn about contraception? A latent class analysis of adolescents and adult women in Delaware
No full textBackground: Across the reproductive life course, women receive information about contraception that may influence their contraceptive behaviors. This study examines the information sources that adolescents and older women combine to acquire information about contraception. Methods: A state-representative survey of women aged 18–44 residing in Delaware, US, in 2017 asked from what sources respondents recently learned about contraception and the type of information obtained. The 2017 Delaware Youth Risk Behavior Survey, representative of public high school students aged 14–18, included analogous questions. Latent class analysis was applied to classify respondents in both samples of adolescents (n = 1253) and adult women (n = 1008) according to the information sources they combined. We estimated multinomial logistic regressions to assess the demographic and reproductive history predictors of using each of the information source repertoires and binomial logistic regressions to analyze their relationship to the information acquired. Results: Adolescents are more likely than adults to report having recently acquired any information about contraception (76% vs. 64%), but they are more likely to rely primarily on a single source. In contrast, adult women are more likely to combine multiple sources. Age, education, and sexual activity emerged as important predictors of information source repertoires. Adults who combine information sources and adolescents who learn mainly from health care providers or school personnel report the greatest breadth in the contraception-related information acquired. Conclusion: Interventions to provide or improve contraceptive knowledge may be more effective if they account for how women use and combine information sources, particularly at different stages of their reproductive lives
Climate change and sexual and reproductive health
Full text linkThe Council\u27s Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) Initiative tracks direct and indirect links between climate hazards to sexual and reproductive health outcomes, with a focus on extreme heat and salinity. In this brief, we highlight evidence and solutions on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in disaster settings; SRHR linkages with arsenic and highly saline drinking water, fertility and drought; and demographic shifts following disasters
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Migrant Women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 2021
No full textThis de-identified dataset originates from the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs and Care of Migrant Women in Mexico survey, conducted between June and September 2021 by the Population Council and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in six migrant shelters in Ciudad Juárez. It includes sociodemographic and migration-related data, along with detailed information on the sexual and reproductive health needs and service utilization of 252 migrant women
Estimating incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancy among women in refugee settlements in Uganda
No full textEstimates of the incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancies in refugee settings are lacking, limiting efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health services. We adapted the abortion incidence complications method to estimate the incidence of induced abortion and unintended pregnancy among women aged 15–49 years in refugee settlements in Uganda. We draw data from a survey of 102 health facilities providing postabortion care (PAC) services to women and girls across 13 refugee settlements in Uganda and a knowledgeable informant survey of 59 individuals familiar with induced abortion among the refugee population in Uganda. An estimated 4131 PAC cases were due to induced abortion among women in refugee settings. The overall induced abortion incidence rate among women living in refugee settlements in Uganda was 37.3 per 1000 women aged 15–49. Of the 31,189 live births, 25,023 pregnancies were unintended, translating to an unintended pregnancy rate of 73.7 per 1000 women of reproductive age. Of all pregnancies to women living in refugee settlements, 25 percent were estimated at end in induced abortion, 24 percent in unplanned birth, 37 percent in planned birth, and 15 percent in miscarriage. The findings suggest a need to improve access to contraceptives, safe abortion, and PAC services in refugee settlements in Uganda
Leveraging health financing, digital health and self-care approaches to strengthen maternal health journeys in India: Perspectives from Assam
No full textMaternal morbidity and mortality in India continue to be high in populations and places with limited access to quality health services. Major barriers include out of pocket expenditure, lack of autonomy and information around maternal health services and weak implementation of pro-poor policies. Addressing demand-side barriers and enablers is critical to improving healthcare uptake and healthcare adherence along the pregnancy-postnatal continuum. This paper describes three well known operational spaces, maternal health financing, digital health, and self-care interventions within the Indian context including pro-poor maternal health policies, mobile health ecosystems and networks, and self-care opportunities that promote women\u27s knowledge, choice, self-efficacy, and autonomy. These are expanded on to identify additional opportunities to improve access to MH services. Finally, the authors describe a new digital health intervention using a chat-based digital support system that has the potential to reduce barriers that women face in seeking and receiving quality MH services in Assam and elsewhere. Future work on how to implement such a combined approach need to account for multiple contextual factors, including understanding the nature and success of national pro-poor MH policies in each state, how the public and private health systems function and interact, social determinants of health as well as engaging women in the process to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes
The PrEP Ring Quarterly—Edition 2, March 2025
Full text linkThis is the second edition of The PrEP Ring Quarterly newsletter, which provides information, updates, and resources dedicated to the dapivirine vaginal ring (DVR) also known as PrEP ring
A study to evaluate the effects of Annovera® and tampon co-usage on the pharmacokinetics of Segesterone Acetate and Ethinyl Estradiol
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in climate policies and frameworks
Full text linkThe integration of SRHR—a cornerstone of women and girls’ empowerment—and human rights, has been recognised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), among others, as a fundamental pathway to climate resilient development and as an important multi-sectoral approach to climate adaptation and resilience building for individuals and communities. This document compiles several country experiences of integrating SRHR into climate policies and frameworks, thus responding to the urgent need to understand the experiences of countries that have made progress, ensure scaling up and accountability regarding these important commitments to improve the lives of women and girls in the face of climate change