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Pathways to Modern Family Planning: A Longitudinal Study on Social Influence among Men and Women in Benin

This article was published in the March 2021 issue of Studies in Family Planning. Despite improvements in family planning...

Bringing ethical thinking to social change initiatives: Why it matters

Norms-shifting interventions (NSI) seek to improve people’s well-being by facilitating the transformation of harmful social norms, the shared rules...

Jordan’s 2002 to 2012 Fertility Stall and Parallel USAID Investments in Family Planning: Lessons From an Assessment to Guide Future Programming

The article “Jordan’s 2002 to 2012 Fertility Stall and Parallel USAID Investments in Family Planning: Lessons From an Assessment...

Estimating six-cycle efficacy of the Dot app for pregnancy prevention

IRH researchers are studying women’s use of the Dot app for pregnancy prevention. The ongoing prospective study design is the...

Men on the move and the wives left behind

As the global economy expands, global migration continues in lockstep. This article, “Men on the move and the wives left behind: the...

Understanding your body matters: Effects of an entertainment-education serial radio drama on fertility awareness in Rwanda

Given widespread misunderstanding of pregnancy risk, awareness of one’s fertility has the potential to influence sexual and reproductive health...

Journal Supplement— Advancing Social Norms Practice for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health: The Why and the How

Journal Supplement— Advancing Social Norms Practice for AYSRH: The Why and the How

This Supplement comprises an editorial on the history of and path forward for social norms research; four commentaries, including...

Perfect- and typical-use effectiveness of the Dot fertility app over 13 cycles

Researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University Medical Center studied women’s use of the Dot...

Advancing Social Norms Practice for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health: The Why and the How

In 2019, the Learning Collaborative published a special supplement in the Journal of Adolescent Health, “ Advancing Social Norms...

Coalition for Understanding Scale Up’s GREAT Project Case Study

The Coalition for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP) is a group of nine organizations working across every region to explore what...

Estimating six-cycle efficacy of the Dot app for pregnancy prevention: preliminary results

IRH researchers are studying women’s use of the app for 13 menstrual cycles, or about one year. The ongoing prospective...