PATH Program

Sexual & Reproductive Health

We work to improve the sexual and reproductive health and well-being of women and girls by harnessing the power of innovation. PATH designs and evaluates products and programs that empower women to take charge of their health and provides evidenced-based approaches to meet the reproductive health needs of current and future generations.

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March 7, 2018
Women’s self-care: a new take on an old practice
September 12, 2018
The power to prevent pregnancy in women’s hands: DMPA-SC injectable contraception
November 11, 2019
Thermal ablation offers new hope for cervical cancer prevention
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  1. RG451934-edit-2000px.jpg Tanzania healthcare workers working on mobile digital devices. Photo: PATH (BID/digital health via Hallie)
    August 30, 2019

    The key to better primary health care? Human-centered design

    Human-centered design is an approach to problem-solving that puts people first. Their needs, their constraints, their contexts and their perspectives. It focuses on users—not necessarily what designers, researchers, or others think users need.
  2. Phiona Nakabuye (left), a village health worker trained by PATH's Sayana® Press pilot program, with Carol Nabisere (right), age 18, who chose to receive Sayana® Press after being counseled in the various forms of contraception. Uganda. PATH/Will Boase.
    May 29, 2019

    Three shocking inequities in women’s health—and what we’re doing to change them

    Advances in medicine are improving women’s health worldwide, but the inequities between different countries, communities, and peoples remains outrageous and immoral. Learn how PATH is closing the gaps.
  3. Minzayar Oo
    April 9, 2019

    Myanmar’s push for sexual and reproductive health and rights

    PATH is part of the home-grown push in Myanmar to accelerate efforts around sexual and reproductive health and rights. Over the past few years, PATH has paved the way for policy reform and guidelines and is now looking to implement a new national policy and make it a reality.
  4. Woman and girls posed in front of a blackboard in Uganda. Photo: PATH/Will Boase
    March 7, 2019

    Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019: Taking stock and pushing forward

    PATH's work to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women (and men) stretches back to our inception in 1977, when we were founded to improve the quality of and accessibility to contraceptive products.
  5. Pregnant women exercise outside the Lugbe Primary Heath Care Center at the start of antenatal clinic. Abuja, Africa
    November 12, 2018

    Empowering women and girls to define their sexual and reproductive health

    Supporting the health and well-being of women and girls everywhere is at PATH’s core. Martha Brady, director of our Sexual and Reproductive Health program, writes about the innovative work her team is doing to help empower half the world’s population.
  6. Woman holds subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC, Sayana Press)
    September 12, 2018

    The power to prevent pregnancy in women’s hands: DMPA-SC injectable contraception

    Women want and need access to a variety of contraceptives to plan, space, and prevent pregnancies. PATH is expanding access and options with DMPA-SC, an all-in-one self-injectable contraceptive that puts women in charge of their reproductive health.
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