Study in France reveals: Complications in pregnancy and birth increase with COVID-19

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to have complications with pregnancy and birth than those without, according to the research journal PLOS Medicine. The study looked at hospitalisation for births in France during the first six months of the pandemic and suggested that vaccination may be useful to protect women and their babies, particularly […]

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Why Digital Rights are Crucial to #MakeUnsafeAbortionHistory

The 28th of September marks International Safe Abortion Day, with this year’s theme being #MakeUnsafeAbortionHistory. After a devastating year of reproductive rights regression in the U.S. and the impact of Covid-19 on accessing abortion services worldwide, it has become starkly evident just how critical it is to have access to reliable information about abortion and abortion […]

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TURN IT ON! Sexual Health in a Digital Age | World Sexual Health Day 2021

TURN IT ON! Sexual Health in a Digital Age is the 2021 World Sexual Health Day theme, aiming to ignite awareness of sexual health and rights and enforce them, due to violations and abuses of sexual rights in digital spaces. Digital resources can offer a perfect environment to dissipate health-information and promote involvement in health […]

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Meet Our Small Grantees 2021

In January 2021, the second Share-Net International Co-Creation Conference “Engaging in Knowledge Translation Together” took place. The conference was hosted by Share-Net Bangladesh and took place completely online on a dynamic virtual platform. During this conference, researchers, policymakers, NGOs, funding organisations, the media and practitioners from across the world engaged in dialogues and collaborated to co-create knowledge […]

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Trans and hijra lives in times of COVID-19

In early 2020, Share-Net International launched a special round of small grants which were aimed at funding research projects that specifically centred on SRHR, gender equality and COVID-19.  For this blog, Dr. Adnan Hossain, research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, shares his experiences of being a small grant recipient and working on the small grant […]

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International Women’s Day 2021

Today, on #internationalwomensday, the Share-Net country hubs engage their members through various campaigns. Through this year’s theme #choosetochallenge, Share-Net members across the world show solidarity and commit to challenging gender bias and inequalities! Around the world, women and girls are still not able to fully participate in all aspects of social, economic and political life. […]

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Power Talks of Co-Creation Conference are available now!

All the power talks given during the Share-Net International Co-Creation Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Adolescents and Youth are available on YouTube now! About the Co-Creation Conference Share-Net Bangladesh and Share-Net International hosted their second bi-annual Co-Creation Conference, “Engaging in Knowledge Translation Together” from 25th to 28th of January and the 3rd of […]

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GPower: Assess gender equality in your organisation!

Share-Net Bangladesh is proud to announce the development of a new mobile application that assesses the status of gender equality in any private, governmental, or non-governmental organisation. We are extremely happy to inform you that GPower Android Application is currently available on Google Play Store for download. GPower GPower is an app to help companies and […]

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Know-how of early marriage prevention (knowledge & practice)

About the project Dr. Aqel explained that the Institute for Family Health provides psychological health support, health and rehabilitation services, carries out fieldwork and provides training and skills development. The grant received from Share-Net International (SNI) aimed to disseminate the model used by the King Hussein Foundation to reduce early marriage and present the model […]

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Diving deeper into the meaning of CSE

Introduction In 2016, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was awarded a Share-Net International Small Grant for their proposed project, titled “CSE, teachers and formal and informal curricula: A qualitative analysis on the role of teachers in enhancing young women and men’s SRHR.”  The concept of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) has gained a lot of traction internationally over […]

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