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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)

The SRHM Podcast explores new research and emerging trends in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters or SRHM promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. At the heart of SRHM is a multidisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. SRHM also creates and participates in spaces that motivate improvements in research, policy, services and practice. It contributes to capacity building in knowledge generation. Learn more at

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00:27:32

ACORCA: Building an African-led movement for safe...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/12/12

At a time when sexual and reproductive health and rights are under renewed political and ideological attack globally, African researchers and advocates are strengthening their collective voice and leadership on abortion. In this SRHM Podcast episode, Eszter Kismődi spokewith Naa Dodoo, Ramatou Ouedraogo and Béniel Agossou about the work of ACORCA – the African Coalition for Research, Communication and Abortion and itsvision for an Africa where every woman and girl can access safe, high-quality

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00:57:00

Sex, Satisfaction, and Switching: The Questions...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/11/07

On World Contraception Day, SRHM, in partnership with The Pleasure Project and WHO, hosted a powerful webinar launching a landmark systematic review: Sex, Satisfaction, and Switching: The Questions Contraceptive Research and Implementation Forgot to Ask.This review provides the first systematic evidence on the extent to which sex life concerns influence contraceptive discontinuation and switching.Key findings highlight that 1 in 20 contraceptive users discontinue while still in need due to the

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00:25:05

A Landmark Win for Reproductive Rights: Kenya’s High...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/10/31

In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, SRHM Chief Executive Eszter Kismodi speaks with Allan Maleche, Executive Director of KELIN Kenya, and Jerop Limo, Executive Director of the Ambassadors for Youth and Adolescent Reproductive Health Programme (AYARHEP). Together, they discuss a groundbreaking case before the High Court of Kenya, which challenged the country’s National Reproductive Health Policy (2022–2032) for being discriminatory and unconstitutional. The conversation explores how this ruling — a

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00:44:25

The right to science in sexual and reproductive...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/10/24

How should science shape laws and policies on reproductive health? What happens when ideology overrides evidence in decisions about IVF, abortion and reproductive autonomy? And why is the right to science a critical yet overlooked human right?In this thought-provoking episode of the SRHM Podcast, host Eszter Kismődi speaks with four authors of a groundbreaking SRHM paper: The right to science in sexual and reproductive health and the legal status of the human embryo. Guests Professor Silke Dyer,

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01:24:31

Surrogacy and bodily autonomy as a matter of sexual...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/10/20

On 8 October 2025, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) co-hosted a global webinar titled “Surrogacy as a Matter of Sexual and Reproductive Justice” in partnership with the Just Futures Collaborative, Center for Reproductive Rights, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice.This event situated surrogacy within the wider framework of sexual and reproductive justice, human rights, and bodily autonomy.The webinar explored

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00:55:42

Female genital mutilation in Africa: Politics of...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/09/19

On 9 September 2025, SRHM hosted a thought-provoking webinar to launch the open-access book Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalisation, edited by Satang Nabaneh, Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, and affiliated faculty at the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Introduced by Eszter Kismödi, Chief Executive of SRHM, the event brought together contributing authors to reflect on the complex and evolving debates around FGM

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00:13:04

Global progress in abortion law reform since ICPD

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/08/22

In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, host Eszter Kismödi speaks with Katie Mayall, Laurenne Ajayi, and Caitlin Gruer—authors of the article Global progress in abortion law reform: a comparative legal analysis since the International Conference on Population and Development. Together, they unpack three decades of global shifts in abortion law, drawing on unique legal mapping by the Center for Reproductive Rights.The conversation explores key findings, including the surge of countries adopting

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00:13:38

Dr Faysal El Kak: Vision as the New President of the...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/08/15

In this episode, SRHM Chief Executive Eszter Kismödi speaks with Dr Faysal El Kak, Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut and newly elected President of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS). Against a backdrop of global political and economic turbulence, Dr El Kak reflects on the pressing challenges and emerging opportunities for sexual health worldwide—from rising anti-rights movements and economic pressures to bold youth activism and growing intersectional approaches.He

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00:26:12

Telehealth abortion services in Kenya via Women on Web

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/08/01

In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, we explore how people in Kenya are accessing safe abortion care online in the face of restrictive laws and limited health system support. Host Julia Hussein is joined by researchers Kenneth Juma (APHRC), Hazal Atay (Women on Web/Sciences Po), and Céline Miani (Bielefeld University) to discuss their study analysing nearly 900 telehealth abortion consultations via Women on Web between 2013 and 2019.The conversation dives into who is using these services, why they

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00:15:45

Re-release - Assisted Reproduction in Africa:...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/07/25

In this episode, re-released from August 2024 for World IVF Day 2025, Nina Sun, the Associated Editor of the SRHM journal, speaks to Trudie Gerrits and Andrea Whittaker, the authors of a recently published paper: Assisted reproductive technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: fertility professionals' views.Andrea is a Professor of Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Trudie is an Associate Professor at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University

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00:20:16

The Acceptability of Misoprostol-Only Abortion...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/07/18

In this episode, host Nina Sun is joined by Dana Johnson, lead author of a new SRHM study exploring the acceptability of misoprostol-only medication abortion accessed via mail-order or retail pharmacies in the United States. As abortion access is increasingly restricted across the country, many people are turning to self-managed care options—including medication abortion outside of traditional clinical settings.Drawing on in-depth interviews, the conversation highlights how people experience and

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00:40:58

No Justice in a Genocide: Sexual and reproductive...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/07/11

In this powerful conversation, host and SRHM Editorial Board member Laura Ferguson is joined by reproductive justice scholars Cordelia Freeman and Hala Shoman, authors of “No Justice in a Genocide”, to explore the devastating impact of war on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Gaza.They speak about:— What’s happening to SRH services under siege— Why reproductive justice is a critical framework— The barriers to speaking truthfully in academia— What a rights-based response could look

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00:49:07

Ireland’s Abortion Journey: Stories of Silence,...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/06/27

What does abortion access really look like in Ireland—before and after legal reform? In this powerful episode of the SRHM Podcast, host Mindy Jane Roseman is joined by three leading researchers—Niamh Skelly, Dyuti Chakravarty, and Lorraine Grimes—whose work reveals the lived realities behind Ireland’s evolving abortion landscape.From the emotional weight of unspoken stories in pre-liberalisation Ireland to the persistent gatekeeping and policy gaps today, this conversation unpacks how legal change

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00:41:02

Avortement et stigmatisation sociale : Voix de jeunes...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/06/13

Dans ce premier épisode du podcast du Hub Afrique francophone de SRHM, fondé en 2019, Bouchra Assarag et Vincent De Brouwere accueillent Vanessa, autrice d’une étude percutante sur les normes sociales autour de l’avortement chez les jeunes femmes au Bénin. Ensemble, ils explorent les pressions normatives, les dynamiques familiales, et les enjeux d’accès à l’avortement sécurisé dans un contexte légal et social complexe.English:In this first episode of the SRHM Francophone Africa Hub podcast, founded

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00:24:12

Towards an inclusive and culturally sensitive...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/06/06

In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, SRHM Advcocacy and External Relations Manager, Lisa Welsh, speaks with Lore Remmerie, Nicole Leonetti and Aslan Temirkhanov — co-authors of a new research article in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters — about reimagining how we define and support sexual well-being among young people. Together, they present a youth-centred, culturally sensitive framework that challenges dominant narratives and power structures in sexual and reproductive health. The

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00:18:57

Welcoming Bioética UNAM: A New Journal in the...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/05/30

In this episode, SRHM Chief Executive, Eszter Kismodi, speaks to Gustavo Ortiz Millán, Editor in Chief of the recently launched journal 'Bioética UNAM', an academic journal publishing in bioethics, including in SRHR, from UNAM University, Mexico. The UNAM Bioethics journal , published by the UNAM Bioethics University Program, is dedicated to communicating the results of research related to this discipline at the national and international levels.UNAM Bioethics publishes content addressing the ethics

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00:21:07

The upcoming Reproductive Health Network Kenya...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/05/23

In this episode, Eszter Kismodi, Chief Executive of SRHM, speaks to Nelly Munyasia and Edison Omollo from the Reproductive Health Network Keyna (RHNK) about the upcoming 8th Pan-African Adolescent and Youth SRHR Scientific Conference on 24th - 27th June 2025 in Mombasa, Kenya. It is still possible to register for the conference and organize side events or panels until 31 May. We encourage the SRHM community to follow the developments from this important Pan-African Conference. Useful linksFind out

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00:25:52

Barriers and facilitators of participation in...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/05/16

In this episode, Emma Pitchforth, Executive Editor of the SRHM Journal, speaks to three of the authors of the recently published paper, Barriers and facilitators of participation in syphilis vaccine trials: a qualitative analysis to inform trial design and community engagement in the United States.We hear from Suzanne Day, Joseph Tucker and Justin Radolf about the long shadow of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, recommendations for engaging marginalized populations in syphalis vaccine trials and insights

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00:10:14

Call for Papers on Universal Access to Abortion Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/05/02

In this episode we hear from Sundari Ravindran, Senior Editor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) Journal and Emma Pitchforth, Executive Editor of the SRHM Journal.They introduce our newest call for papers — one that focuses on a topic as urgent as ever: universal access to abortion care. This call builds on the legacy of SRHM but also responds to the current moment. This episode is a chance for us to share more about the thinking behind the call, what we’re hoping to achieve, and how

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00:18:17

Educating ideal neoliberal citizens: discourses of...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast ·

2025/04/18

This episode of the SRHM Podcast is an audio recording of the paper, 'Educating ideal neoliberal citizens: discourses of agency and responsibility in comprehensive sexuality education' read by the author, Sarah Lewinger, and published in the SRHM Journal in October 2023. This paper includes an initial review of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) interventions in the global south and a call to action to reimagine CSE as transformative praxis, "which does not teach students to

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