Knowledge Hub
To support reproductive health advocates across the globe, Global Doctors for Choice (GDC) has gathered resources related to advocacy with the aim of influencing policies, guidelines, and laws to improve access to care.
Please note that this is not a comprehensive list and does not necessarily reflect GDC’s position. We will continue to gather and add resources, and invite you to contact us to suggest resources.
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Evidence-based Recommendations to Improve Reproductive Healthcare for Incarcerated Women
Date:
September 2017
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: Publications
This paper describes standards for evidence-based reproductive healthcare for incarcerated women in the US, but its recommendations are grounded in a human rights framework that can be applied globally. It
Digital Health for Social and Behavior Change: New Technologies, New Ways to Reach People
Date:
2018
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: Publications
This brief discusses how professionals can use digital technologies to contribute toward promoting, adopting, and maintaining sexual and reproductive health and well-being. The brief includes challenges of digital applications, evidence
Social and Behavior Change: A Critical Part of Effective Family Planning Programs
Date:
2018
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: Publications
This document provides a general overview of high impact practices pertaining to social and behavior change, and how these principles can be applied to high impact family planning programs.
Abortion in South Africa: A Reporting Guide for Journalists
Date:
May 2018
Topics:
Communicating about SRHR Resource Types: Publications
Bhekisisa Mail & Guardian Centre for Health Journalism created a reporting guide to help journalists and writers describe when abortion is legal in South Africa, explain medical terms, and develop
Providers as Advocates for Safe Abortion Care
Date:
2009
Topics:
Advocacy Case Studies Resource Types: Trainings
This manual helps to foster an advocacy perspective in health-care providers who are involved in delivering abortion and/or postabortion care. It will help providers recognize their personal power as advocates
Constitutional Court of Chile Decision: Constitutional challenge to the Bill that “regulates the decriminalization of voluntary interruption of pregnancy on three legal grounds, corresponding to Bulletin N ° 9895-11.
Date:
2018
Topics:
Advocacy Case Studies Resource Types: Publications
In this 294-page ruling, the Constitutional Court of Chile upheld the constitutionality of new government legislation that would remove the criminal prohibition on procuring an abortion on three grounds: when
Working Bibliography: Legal and Policy Dimensions of Rape-Related Abortion Services: Court Decisions, Treaty Resources, Policy Guidance and Publications
Date:
April 2018
Topics:
Advocacy Tools Resource Types: Publications
This working bibliography was compiled during various legal research, policy and advocacy projects on the delivery of abortion services as a result of rape. It is work in progress, and
Abortion in Brazil: A Legal and Practical Informative Approach
Date:
2016
Topics:
Advocacy Case Studies Resource Types: Publications
This “booklet is aimed at both people who abort and reproductive rights and justice activists who make it possible for them to have a safe abortion, in an attempt to
Expansion of Comprehensive Abortion Services into the Second Trimester
Date:
2014
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: Publications
“This guidance is designed for any health facility planning to expand its abortion services to include abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy. It provides the tools and resources necessary to
Clinical Updates in Reproductive Health
Date:
2018
Topics:
SRH Education Resource Types: Websites
"Ipas’s Clinical Updates in Reproductive Health contain up-to-date, evidence-based clinical recommendations on comprehensive abortion care, with new topics and resources added regularly. The Clinical Updates in Reproductive Health provide concise, easy-to-read information about abortion care, combining the latest evidence with lessons learned from health professionals globally to produce relevant clinical recommendations."
