Global sexual health: why communal knowledge about pleasure and wellbeing matters

By Jessie V. Ford, Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

For decades, discussions and decisions about access to contraception, abortion, maternal healthcare, HIV prevention and treatment, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equity, and protection from sexual violence have largely flowed in one direction. From the global north to the global south.

Researchers, donors and international organisations have exported programmes, defined success, and determined which questions matter most. How can HIV be prevented? How can contraceptive uptake be…

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