Changing futures through soccer and sexual health

Integrating sports and sexual health could be an innovative and effective approach for promoting HIV and pregnancy prevention. A recent study led by Assistant Professor Lila Sheira, PhD, MPH, evaluated whether a peer-led, sports-based program in Zambia impacted girls’ and young women’s sexual and...

Policy Brief: Cost, Coverage, and Contraception – How Policy Can Improve Access for Community College Students

A new policy brief from Beyond the Pill and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research examines barriers to healthcare and contraceptive access for community college students and proposes policy recommendations to improve contraceptive affordability and availability.

HIVE helps people living with HIV achieve their family-building dreams

HIVE and their community will take part in this year’s SF AIDS Walk on July 20th. The event will be a celebration of their groundbreaking work, and an opportunity to make sure it continues.

Black Women Speak: An Abortion Storytelling Showcase

Join The UCSF Black Womxn's Health & Livelihood Initiative and Girlx Lab for Black Women Speak: An Abortion Storytelling Showcase. Listen to Black women share their stories as we journey to community healing and wellness. Food will be served and vendors will share information and products for...

What young people see as obstacles to UTI care

New research led by Jennifer Yarger, PhD, explores what young people perceive as barriers to care for UTIs.

Team Lily's innovative strategies to support pregnant people

The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforst (FORE), which awarded Team Lily one of their grants for programs developing innovative models to support people with substance use disorder, made a video highlighting the impact of their work.

New factsheet: All abortion bans harm patients

Our new resource highlights evidence showing that any limits on abortion care harm patients.

Investment needed to improve women’s pregnancy outcomes after fistula repair

New research led by Abner Korn and Alison El Ayadi of UCSF and Justus Barageine of Makerere University, Uganda, looks at the rates of pregnancy loss and stillbirth after fistula repair and what risk factors are associated with those outcomes.

What happens when someone can’t get an abortion? This play will show you

The Turnaway Study is breaking ground again —by bringing the research to life on the stage. 

Room for improvement in person-centered maternity care around the world 

Person-centered maternity care (PCMC) is respectful, responsive, and compassionate childbirth care. In a new paper by Osamuedeme Odiase and colleagues, researchers analyzed studies that use the PCMC scale around the world.