Healthy Sexuality: Relationships, Intimacy and Sexual Behavior
Our Healthy Sexuality Program addresses relationships, intimacy and sexual behavior, with the goal of convincing key decision makers to acknowledge the universality of sexual relationships and understand the societal benefits of empowering people to have healthy and satisfying sexual relationships. To reach this goal, we conduct research, policy analysis and public education activities on preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections, including HIV; assessing the specific sexual and reproductive health needs of men; and examining the effects of social, economic and political contexts upon sexual relationships.
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Healthy Sexuality: Relationships, Intimacy and Sexual Behavior resources
Fact sheets
Facts on Young Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health [PDF version] June 2008
Sexual and Reproductive Health: Women and Men [PDF version] October 2002
"State Policies in Brief"
Sex and STD/HIV Education [PDF] September 2010
Highlighted policy articles
Preempting the Need to Repair: Toward a Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Obstetric Fistula [PDF version] August 2010
Sneha Barot
Guttmacher Policy Review
Contraception: An Integral Component of Preventive Care for Women [PDF version] June 2010
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review
The Reproductive Health Needs of Refugees and Displaced People: An Opening for Renewed U. S. Leadership [PDF version] August 2009
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
For Some Sexually Transmitted Infections, Secondary Prevention May Be Primary [PDF version] June 2009
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review
Advocates Call for a New Approach After the Era of 'Abstinence-Only' Sex Education March 2009
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review
U.S. Global HIV Prevention Policy: Still Time to Get It Right [PDF version] October 2008
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
Renewing a Focus on Prevention in U.S. Global AIDS Policy [PDF version] November 2007
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review
A Long and Winding Road: Getting the HPV Vaccine to Women in the Developing World [PDF version] August 2007
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Family Planning Clinics in Providing the HPV Vaccine [PDF version] August 2007
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review
Young People Need Help in Preventing Pregnancy and HIV; How Will the World Respond [PDF version] August 2007
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV [PDF version] November 2006
Heather Boonstra
In Brief
GAO Report: Global AIDS Law's 'Abstinence-Until-Marriage' Earmark Shortchanges Other Key Prevention Strategies June 2006
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review
Prevention Challenges: Reflections on the Roles of 'Fatigue' and 'Disinhibition' [PDF version] May 2005
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Ominous Convergence: Sex Trafficking, Prostitution and International Family Planning [PDF version] February 2005
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
The Role of Reproductive Health Providers in Preventing HIV [PDF version] November 2004
Heather Boonstra
Issues in Brief
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Men Worldwide [PDF version] March 2004
Adam Sonfield
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
U.S. AIDS Policy: Priority On Treatment, Conservatives' Approach to Prevention [PDF version] August 2003
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Public Health Advocates Say Campaign to Disparage Condoms Threatens STD Prevention Efforts [PDF version] March 2003
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Flexible But Comprehensive: Developing Country HIV Prevention Efforts Show Promise [PDF version] October 2002
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Women and Societies Benefit When Childbearing Is Planned [PDF version] August 2002
Patricia Donovan and Deirdre Wulf
Issues in Brief
Looking at Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs [PDF version] May 2002
Adam Sonfield
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
Family Planning Can Reduce High Infant Mortality Levels [PDF version] April 2002
Patricia Donovan and Deirdre Wulf
Issues in Brief
State Responses to Substance Abuse Among Pregnant Women [PDF version] December 2000
Cynthia Dailard and Elizabeth Nash
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy
"In Brief"
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living with HIV [PDF version] November 2006
Heather Boonstra
The Role of Reproductive Health Providers in Preventing HIV [PDF version] November 2004
Heather Boonstra
Improving Reproductive Health in the Philippines [PDF] May 2003
Women and Societies Benefit When Childbearing Is Planned [PDF version] August 2002
Patricia Donovan and Deirdre Wulf
Family Planning Can Reduce High Infant Mortality Levels [PDF version] April 2002
Patricia Donovan and Deirdre Wulf
Highlighted research articles
Pregnancy Intention from Men's Perspectives: Does Child Support Enforcement Matter? [PDF version]
Chien-Chung Huang
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 37 , Issue 3, September 2005
Environmental Effects on Reproductive Health: The Endocrine Disruption Hypothesis [PDF version]
Dore Hollander
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 29 , Issue 2, March/April 1997
Reports
Sexual and Reproductive Health of U.S. Latinas: A Literature Review [PDF] January 2006
Jennifer J. Frost and Anne K. Driscoll
A, B and C in Uganda: The Roles of Abstinence, Monogamy and Condom Use in HIV Decline [PDF] December 2003
Susheela Singh, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Akinrola Bankole
In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Men Worldwide [PDF] March 2003
In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of American Men [PDF] January 2002
Into a New World: Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Lives January 1998
Into a New World: in Arabic [PDF]
Memos and statements
Potential Impact of Increased Family Planning Funding on the Lives of Women & Their Families Overseas [PDF version] June 2000
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