The Ultimate Choice – Rent, Groceries, or Contraceptives?

Pictured is an arm with a contraceptive implant (the rod) is placed on a dark blue background. The words “join our campaign”, “Universal Access to Contraception”, and “because cost should NOT be a barrier to exercising our sexual and reproductive health rights” is in white.

What would you choose: paying rent on time, affording groceries, or buying contraception?

For many women and gender diverse people in Australia, this impossible choice is the reality. We are shouldering the burden of contraception—physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially.

Highlighting the Impacts of Perimenopause and Menopause – New Policy Brief

As Women’s Health Week draws to a close, we are releasing a second policy brief to ensure women’s health issues continue to receive the attention they require.

Our Policy Brief Menopause and Perimenopause applies a gendered lens to expand understanding of menopause and perimenopause to inform policy, strategy and practice.

Positive steps for reproductive health, but women’s voices are needed

A stack of Australian $50 bank notes

Women’s health advocates have welcomed a suite of budget measures which will create targeted and long-term change for reproductive health but say the voices of many women are missing.

“There’s still a long way to go to address gendered bias in healthcare, we’re only just scratching the service,” said Australian Women’s Health Alliance Chair Bonney Corbin.

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