Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
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Recent revelations of the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada are part of a long, complex and disturbing history – in which feminism became a fight to keep one’s own children.
Adenomyosis is a different condition to endometriosis, though many women who have one will have the other.
Abortion appears to be illegal and clandestine in large parts of the Muslim world. Yet, women continue to challenge the status quo and archaic laws through their daily practices and activism.
Argentina’s Senate voted down an abortion bill 38-31 after a 16-hour debate. The Catholic Church thanked senators for defending ‘life,’ but ever more Catholics here insist on women’s right to choose.
Over the past 45 years, women have married later, attained higher education and joined the workforce in record numbers. Could it all be turned back?
The impact of Venezuela’s medical crisis is not gender-neutral.
Male contraceptives have been under development for at least the past 50 years, because of the success of the female pill and pessimism about men taking a pill.
In Hobart supporting the Tasmanian Greens ahead of the state election, Greens leader Richard Di Natale said ‘in one of our states, women are not getting access to safe terminations’. Is that correct?
A new movie about a female ghost has scared millions in Indonesia. Female ghosts have been center stage in Indonesian folklore and their stories can serve as a warning to the state of women today.
A better understanding of sperm could help develop new fertility treatments and contraceptives for men.
A new evolutionary perspective on what’s been a medical paradox: Why does the body use inflammation to regulate aspects of pregnancy when inflammation is also a big threat to pregnancy?
All recent Republican presidents have cut off foreign aid tied to abortion. Trump’s expansive version of those restrictions endangers billions slated for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
The ongoing debate is a continuation of the Philippines’ long journey towards reproductive health - and its having been turned into a political and moral issue by various actors.
At a time when a new national school curriculum is starting its pilot phase in Kenya, a study shows the massive gaps in sexuality education programmes.
The US is the largest donor to the United Nations Population Fund, which mandates access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services and voluntary family planning.
Contraception saves lives, and U.S. spending on it abroad had an unintended upside when it formed the backbone of early HIV prevention efforts.
The root of the black cohosh plant has a long history of use in Europe and became popular around the world after receiving German approval as a non-prescription drug for hot flushes in 2000.
Did your holiday gift list include radiation-shielding undies to protect your privates from cellphone radio waves? A radiation expert explains they’re unnecessary – your phone won’t affect your fertility.
While most people might think age only affects female fertility, there is growing evidence sperm quality decreases as men age.
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Karin Hammarberg is a Friend of The Conversation.Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Ph.D candidate, INSPIRE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Sciences Po
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Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Labor Studies, Rutgers University
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UMass Chan Medical School
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Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Florida
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
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Reader / Associate Professor in Reproductive Science, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Western Sydney University
