The SRHM Podcast explores new research and emerging trends in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters or SRHM promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. At the heart of SRHM is a multidisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. SRHM also creates and participates in spaces that motivate improvements in research, policy, services and practice. It contributes to capacity building in knowledge generation.
Learn more at srhm.org.
Music by Tiber Krisztián and Salamon Botond
Sound editing by We Edit Podcasts
Making rights real: Abortion access after legal reform in Benin
A conversation between Laura Ferguson, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Njeri Mbuthia, Jonna Both and Vanessa Sekpon.
On Safe Abortion Day, 28 September, SRHM explores what happens after abortion rights are recognised in law. In 2021, Benin expanded the legal grounds for abortion, marking a significant step towards safer abortion care. But as research from Benin shows, legal reform is only the beginning.
In this episode, researchers from the African Population and Health Research Center and Rutgers Netherlands discuss the realities of accessing abortion care, including limited information, cost, conscientious objection, stigma and other structural barriers. They also highlight the vital role of civil society organisations in providing information, referrals and support, and share lessons for turning legal rights into meaningful access.
Read the blog: Nothing exists in a vacuum: A case of the law, systems and SRHR in Benin (https://www.srhm.org/news/nothing-exists-in-a-vacuum-a-case-of-the-law-systems-and-srhr-in-benin/):
https://www.srhm.org/news/nothing-exists-in-a-vacuum-a-case-of-the-law-systems-and-srhr-in-benin/ (https://www.srhm.org/news/nothing-exists-in-a-vacuum-a-case-of-the-law-systems-and-srhr-in-benin/)
16 Sept 2026
Building a Future HIV Response
If we designed the HIV response around the girls who need it most, what would we do differently?
A conversation between Laura Ferguson (SRHM), Serah Malaba (Tiko) and Lindsay Hayden (Elton John AIDS Foundation).
21 Aug 2026
Rethinking how we fund the fight against child marriage
In the latest episode of the SRHM Podcast, SRHM Chief Executive Eszter Kismodi speaks with Lara van Kouterik, Interim Co-CEO and Director of Strategy, Evidence and Impact at Girls Not Brides, about why current funding models are falling short and what needs to change.
Drawing on a recent SRHM blog (https://www.srhm.org/news/we-know-what-works-so-why-cant-we-build-the-architecture-to-make-it-last/) by former Girls Not Brides CEO Dr Faith Mwangi-Powell, the conversation explores why short-term, project-based funding is often ill-suited to addressing complex, interconnected challenges such as child marriage.
Read the blog, 'We know what works. So why can’t we build the architecture to make it last?': https://www.srhm.org/news/we-know-what-works-so-why-cant-we-build-the-architecture-to-make-it-last/ (https://www.srhm.org/news/we-know-what-works-so-why-cant-we-build-the-architecture-to-make-it-last/)
Who has been a guest on SRHM Podcast
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Niamh Skelly
Dyuti Chakravarty
Lorraine Grimes
Vanessa
Lore Remmerie
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Podcast Authority Score: 23 / 100
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