Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University

11/26/2019

In Kinshasa, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo with over 3.7 million regular churchgoers, working with faith leaders is key to realizing long-lasting and far-reaching change in transforming gender norms.

The USAID Global Health-supported Passages Project “Masculinity, Family and Faith” activity brought together young Gender Champions and faith leaders to transform gender norms in their faith communities, where intimate partner violence is common, and access to modern voluntary family planning services is limited. As a result of this intervention, young Gender Champions in the DRC are bringing about change in their own lives, intimate relationships, and families. Learn more during of Activism against Gender-based Violence:

“Gender Champions” share their journeys to transform gender norms in faith communities

11/18/2019

Perfect- and typical-use effectiveness of the Dot fertility app over 13 cycles: results from a prospective contraceptive effectiveness trial Victoria Jennings, Liya T. Haile, Rebecca G. Simmons, Jeff Spieler & Dominick Shattuck To cite this article: Victoria Jennings, Liya T. Haile, Rebecca G. Simmo...

06/19/2019

Have you ever seen a performance you just couldn’t stop talking about? In the Karamoja region of Uganda, EDEAN- a community theater program- had this effect on Nakut, a performer in the short dramas who continues to promote healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies to her family and community. In a new blog post, learn how IRH and Save the Children, funded by USAID, implemented this unconventional, but culturally-sensitive approach which was able to improve fertility awareness and intention to use family planning. Read the full story:

In Uganda, community members perform in skits to help couples learn about family planning

03/25/2019

This earlier this month, we launched a series of mobile games in Nepal to reach young people with information about fertility awareness and family planning. Our hope is that these games will give adolescents a safe space learn about their bodies.

The free games are available now for Android. Download or see a preview of the games here!
http://www.stories.irh.org/pragati #/using-apps/

03/22/2019

On Monday, the Dot Study team published results of their study of the Dot fertility app. The first-of-its-kind study examined how women used the app to prevent pregnancy over 13 menstrual cycles.

The researchers found that the app had a typical-use failure rate of 5 percent and a perfect-use failure rate of 1 percent, which makes Dot comparable to family planning methods such as the pill, vaginal ring, and other fertility awareness-based methods.

Check out the full study:

WASHINGTON (March 18, 2019) – Results of a first-of-its-kind prospective study with a family planning app find it to be as effective as other modern methods for avoiding an unplanned pregnancy. Researchers from the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University Medical Center stu...

03/19/2019

WASHINGTON (March 18, 2019) — Results of a first-of-its-kind prospective study with a family planning app find it to be as effective as other modern methods for avoiding an unplanned pregnancy.

03/11/2019

"Forbidden to participate in daily life, Nepalese girls are speaking out against menstrual shaming."

Forbidden to participate in daily life, Nepalese girls are speaking out against menstrual shaming.

03/05/2019

"As in many pursuits in life, the devil is in the details." Check out the latest blog post in the Learning Collaborative series to learn more about why proper documentation and costing of interventions matters for .

The Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change is a network of experts committed to facilitating collaboration between organizations and individuals working on adolescent and youth norms-shifting interventions. Members are working collectively to build knowledge and tools to promote and guid...

02/28/2019

"We often read about exciting interventions that show impressive results and call for wide-scale adoption. Yet all too frequently, there is little to no information to help plan such a replication, let alone determine how much it might cost."

Check out the latest blog in the Learning Collaborative's series, by Rick Homan of FHI 360!

http://irh.org/blog/measurement_5/