What Women Need to Know About Contraception
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Women’s health means more than eating well, exercising and having a heating pad for that time of the month. It includes contraception and sexuality. Both are very complicated and often politicized. In 2021, we still see governments around the world making decisions about women’s reproductive health. We wanted to do a deeper dive into both contraception and women’s sexual health to provide women with the information that they need to make informed decisions.
We spoke with Dr. Julie Thorne to get an expert opinion. Dr. Thorne is the current family planning lead for Women’s College Hospital and Mt Sinai Hospital. She spent 2018-2020 working in Eldoret, Kenya with the AMPATH Consortium (www.ampathkenya.org) and her time there has given her an important perspective on global women’s health, health systems, and innovative ways of thinking about care delivery. Dr. Thorne’s fellowship was in the CARE program at Queen’s Univ