Inside the FP Story

This episode will dig deeper into one of the themes that came up throughout the season and is also relevant to menstrual health: self-care.

This episode will dig deeper into a topic that we touched on briefly in our last episode—contraceptive-induced menstrual changes. To explore this topic, we will hear from guests as well as anonymous contraceptive users giving their own testimonies.

Featuring interviews from guests who specialize in this topic, this episode will focus on both the physical and social aspects of menstrual health and discuss the importance of inclusive integration of family planning and menstrual health—including adolescents and young people, those living in humanitarian settings, and people of all gender identities and expressions who menstruate.

This third episode will cover the integration of family planning with HIV services, an approach that shows significant potential to improve access to family planning and better meet SRH needs overall. Our guests this episode will provide their perspective on why integration is important, what challenges still exist, and what evidence-based recommendations they have for strengthening services to better meet people’s comprehensive SRH needs.

This episode digs into one of the themes that came up in our last episode: Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health, or AYSRH.

This season, we are exploring the larger context of sexual and reproductive health (or SRH) beyond family planning. Being able to understand the holistic framework—and the range of concerns that affect people’s sexual and reproductive lives—can help ensure access to higher quality information and services for all who need them. In this episode—and throughout this season—we are going to take a fresh look at SRH—how do bodily autonomy and gender fit into this? What about pleasure? How do we ensure that sexual and reproductive health programs consider the needs of young people, and of LGBTQI+ individuals?

Our third and final episode of the season will highlight some tools and resources to help us ensure that policies and programs are more inclusive and accessible to all.

In this episode, we will highlight the experiences of community members—both those seeking FP services as well as those providing services. Their perspectives will shed light on the importance of using an intersectional lens to plan our programs.

In this season, we are speaking with guests who are applying an intersectional lens to their work in sexual and reproductive health. In this first episode, we started out by asking our guests to define the term "intersectionality" so we can all begin on the same page.

On this fourth and final episode this season, we will focus on the unique challenges of adolescents and youth—as well as creative approaches and opportunities—to ensure that young people in fragile settings can obtain the sexual and reproductive health services they need and want.