The value of self-care during climate-related extreme weather events (EWE) to support sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Climate-related extreme weather events (EWE) affect sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) outcomes through complex and multi-level pathways. These include institutional-level effects on health systems, such as damaged health infrastructure and roads, barriers to retaining qualified health and care workers, as well as healthcare access barriers due to increased economic precarity, displacement and migration. Furthermore, EWE effects on SRHR disproportionately affect marginalised communities.

[Applicability of World Health Organization guidelines on self-care interventions for reproductive health in selected Latin American and Caribbean countriesAplicabilidade das diretrizes da Organização Mundial da Saúde sobre intervenções de autocuidado em saúde reprodutiva em países selecionados da América Latina e do Caribe].

Objective: To analyze the applicability of the World Health Organization's in selected Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Methods: Countries prioritized by the Pan American Health Organization for technical cooperation in reproductive health were selected: Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras, Peru, and Uruguay. An exhaustive search was conducted for documents considered to be clinical practice guidelines on family planning, as well as other guidelines on related topics.

Climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights research in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.

Introduction: This study aimed to provide an overview of the research landscape and to identify research gaps linking climate change events and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the negative impacts of climate change are most severe.

Methods: We conducted a scoping review to map research studies that link climate change events or factors and SRHR aspects in LMICs. We performed a structured literature search across six databases to identify relevant peer-reviewed publications between January 1994 and 6 September 2023.

Self-care interventions for legal and safe abortions: lessons learned from a woman-centered approach to sexual and reproductive healthcare in Uruguay.

Problem: In the 1990s, almost 40% of maternal deaths in Uruguay were caused by unsafe abortions.

Approach: A harm reduction model implemented in Uruguay, which addressed the risks associated with unsafe abortion practices by promoting and supporting the self-management of medical abortions by women in their homes, encouraged women's autonomy.

Local Setting: Since 2005, an accelerated decrease in maternal mortality has been recorded in Uruguay, coinciding with the implementation of two major actions: a harm reduction approach with active promotion of self-care through self-management of medical abortions; and in 2012, a change in legislation, which made abortion legal within sexual and reproductive health facilities when requested by women up to 12 weeks of pregnancy or later for specific indications.

Meaningful Engagement as a Cornerstone for Implementing the Key Recommendations to Advance the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living With HIV Across Policy, Practice, and Research in Canada.

In 2022, a community-academic collaborative team published 5 key recommendations for developing a national action plan to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women living with HIV in Canada. In 2023, a national gathering was convened to strategize implementation of the recommendations across policy, practice, and research settings. Discussions highlighted that meaningful engagement of women living with HIV (recommendation 1) is foundational to implementing the other recommendations.

The importance of insufficient national data on sexual and reproductive health and rights in international databases.

Looking at SRHR as an isolated set of elements, as is the current practice, does not do justice to the needs and rights of people and communities and may be one of the reasons why challenges remain in the attainment of SRHR for all. SRHR Infographic snapshots were developed for all 194 WHO Member States and included 120 indicators covering a broad range of policy, health systems and service delivery interventions. The snapshots were created using data less than 10 years old publicly available in data repositories maintained by international and global agencies.

Self-care interventions for women's health and well-being.

The human right to health is universal and non-exclusionary, supporting health in full, and for all. Despite advances in health systems globally, 3.6 billion people lack access to essential health services.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels among pregnant individuals with gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends treatment and management of gestational diabetes (GD) through lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, and self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) to inform timely treatment decisions. To expand the evidence base of WHO's guideline on self-care interventions, we conducted a systematic review of SMBG among pregnant individuals with GD.

Setting: Following PRISMA guidelines, we searched PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS, and EMBASE for publications through November 2020 comparing SMBG with clinic-based monitoring during antenatal care (ANC) globally.

Self-care interventions for preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care: a scoping review.

Objective: To identify current and emerging self-care interventions to improve maternity healthcare.

Design: Scoping review.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, Embase, EmCare, PsycINFO, Cochrane CENTRAL/CDSR, CINAHL Plus (last searched on 17 October 2021).

Integrating pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infection into family planning services: a scoping review.

Introduction: The aim of this review was to map evidence of integrating pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention into family planning services. A comprehensive package, using a combination of PrEP and contraceptive delivery, could reduce the number of new HIV infections and/or unintended pregnancies for at-risk women and adolescent girls.

Methods: A scoping literature search was conducted between August 2020 and October 2020.

Use of implementation science to advance family planning programs in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.

Objective: As environmental and economic pressures converge with demands to achieve sustainability development goals, low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) increasingly require strategies to strengthen and scale-up evidence-based practices (EBP) related to family planning (FP). Implementation science (IS) can help these efforts. The purpose of this article is to elucidate patterns in the use of IS in FP research and identify ways to maximize the potential of IS to advance FP in LMIC.