SynthesisPloS one2021
Rights based approaches to sexual and reproductive health in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review.
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- Perceptions of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights among Students at a Higher Learning Institution in Rwanda.Rwanda journal of medicine and health sciences · 2026Article
- The Double Dominion Over Women's Bodies as a barrier to exercising sexual and reproductive rights: a mixed-methods study in La Ladrillera, Mexico.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- Husbands' knowledge of women's reproductive rights and its associated factors in Gacho Baba District, Southern Ethiopia, 2023: a rights-based approach to male engagement.Reproductive health · 2026Article
- Exploring barriers, facilitators, and preferences for the uptake of contraceptive methods among adolescents aged 15-19 years in Neno district, Malawi: a qualitative study.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights among University of Rwanda students: a cross-sectional study.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Persistent inequities in maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1990-2019.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Knowledge of reproductive rights and associated factors among Oda Bultum University students, eastern Ethiopia.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
- Contradictions and possibilities for change: Exploring stakeholder perspectives of Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) and their connection to a future for global health.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Human rights and HIV: rhetoric or determinants?BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southeast Ethiopia.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2023Article
- Structural Interventions to Enable Adolescent Contraceptive Use in LMICs: A Mid-Range Theory to Support Intervention Development and Evaluation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Realising sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls and young women living in slums in Uganda: a qualitative study.Reproductive health · 2021Article
- A realist review of interventions targeting maternal health in low- and middle-income countries.Women's health (London, England)Review
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Abstract
introductionThe Sustainable Development Goals, which are grounded in human rights, involve empowering women and girls and ensuring that everyone can access sexual and reproductive health and rights (Goal 5). This is the first systematic review reporting interventions involving rights-based approaches for sexual and reproductive health issues including gender-based violence, maternity, HIV and sexually transmitted infections in low and middle-income countries.
aimsTo describe the evidence on rights-based approaches to sexual and reproductive health in low and middle-income countries.
methodsEMBASE, MEDLINE and Web of Science were searched until 9/1/2020. Inclusion criteria were: Study design: any interventional study.Population: females aged over 15 living in low and middle-income countries.Intervention: a "rights-based approach" (defined by the author) and/or interventions that the author explicitly stated related to "rights".Comparator: clusters in which no intervention or fewer components of an intervention were in place, or individuals not exposed to interventions, or exposed to fewer intervention components.Outcome: Sexual and reproductive health related outcomes. A narrative synthesis of included studies was undertaken, and outcomes mapped to identify evidence gaps. The systematic review protocol was registered on PROSPERO (CRD42019158950).
resultsDatabase searching identified 17,212 records, and 13,404 studies remained after de-duplication. Twenty-four studies were included after title and abstract, full-text and reference-list screening by two authors independently. Rights-based interventions were effective for some included outcomes, but evidence was of poor quality. Testing uptake for HIV and/or other sexually transmitted infections, condom use, and awareness of rights improved with intervention, but all relevant studies were at high, critical or serious risk of bias. No study included gender-based violence outcomes.
conclusionConsiderable risk of bias in all studies means results must be interpreted with caution. High-quality controlled studies are needed urgently in this area.
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