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As ANSIRH researcher Dr. Antonia Biggs recently told the New York Times, her new study suggests “expanding access to abortion care is more likely to protect women’s mental health than restricting women’s access to abortion care.”

New analysis from the groundbreaking Turnaway Study finds that denying women abortion has negative consequences to their mental health in the short-term. The analysis also shows that women who receive a wanted abortion do not experience more long-term mental health consequences than those women denied abortion.

A recent study led by ANSIRH researchers showed that women visiting abortion providers had equal or greater certainty about their decisions than other patients do about reconstructive knee surgeries, common cancer treatments and myriad other health care decisions.

A recent UCSF and Makerere University study tested a new approach for expanding the use of HIV treatment by focusing on changing health worker behaviors. Providers who gave updated care had patients two times more likely to begin antiretroviral therapy during the important 14-day period after becoming eligible.

To address global gaps in the maternal mortality ratio, a Lancet review co-authored by the UCSF Bixby Center's Dr. Suellen Miller recommends 78 evidence-based practices to care for women and newborns around the time of birth.

Study in Lancet shows a woman’s lifetime chance of dying from childbirth is one in 36 in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to one in 4,900 in richer countries.

Long-time Bixby collaborator Dr. Maricianah Onono has been named a 2016 winner of 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders.

The UCSF Bixby Center and US Office of Population Affairs (OPA) has created a toolkit for family planning providers to counsel non-pregnant women and their partners about birth control in the context of Zika.