The Youth Alliance for Reproductive Health, Democratic Republic of Congo is collective of Congolese youth dedicated to educating their peers about sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Established in December 2019 and based in Goma, YARH DRC primarily partners with schools to provide peer-to-peer SRH education. Community panels, workshops, and awareness-raising events ground YARH DRC’s work and complement their virtual programming offerings, which were adapted to meet youth’s SRH education needs during COVID-19 lockdowns.
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The Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies (GCHS), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Science Practice are conducting this study on behalf of Elrha to explore sexual and reproductive health (SRH) innovations in humanitarian settings. As part of the research, they are interested in a wide array of innovations including, but not limited to, new or significant adaptations to products, technologies, services, delivery methods, processes, approaches or policies that address important problems in humanitarian SRH.
This study uses routine health information system data to examine neonatal mortality burden and trends in UNHCR refugee camps between 2006 and 2017.
The Community Health Rights Network (COHERINET) is a network of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) leaders from community-based organizations, community health worker corps, and educational institutes across Uganda striving to advance awareness of SRH in hard-to-reach communities. COHERINET serves a diverse range of Ugandans of reproductive age, including women, adolescents, men and boys, and people living with HIV. The coalition seeks to transform SRH at the community level by holding sensitizing, awareness-raising outreach and non-judgmental SRH counselling through community workshops covering topics from safe abortion care and clinic referrals to contraceptive counseling and gender-based violence programming. COHERINET’s flagship program, Aunt KAKI, is a toll-free SRH counseling service, where operators provide stigma-free SRH advising and referrals to callers across Uganda. This service removes the geographical and knowledge barriers that prevent more remote communities from understanding and claiming their SRH rights, proving especially critical during nationwide COVID-19 lockdowns.
This article published on Page 40 of the Hospital News monthly newspaper, which is disseminated across all hospitals in Ontario, Canada, focuses on the ethical obligation of physicians and healthcare workers to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to all migrants and refugees. It also discusses the unaddressed stigma surrounding the topic of conversation and the topic of building health equity amongst those who need equitable care the most.
"The Lancet" Series on Women’s and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings aims to improve understanding of and address the special requirements of providing sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition services in conflict settings. The Series draws upon scholarship from the BRANCH Consortium, providing insights into the nature and dynamics of women’s and children’s health and nutrition in diverse conflict contexts globally. The Series papers articulate a way forward to fill immediate evidence and guidance gaps as well as longer-term action to ensure the most effective humanitarian health response for conflict-affected women and children.