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Apr 21
Anita Ravi, MD, MPH, MSHP is a family physician engaged in clinical, research, and policy work focused on addressing gender-based violence and health. She is the founder and clinical director of the Institute for Family Health’s PurpLE Clinic (Purpose: Listen and Engage), a primary care clinic that serves people who have experienced sexual trauma, including…
Apr 21
Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists, clinicians and scientists are marking the day around the world in different ways. Earth Day began in 1970, before Roe v. Wade and in a time before “going green” and protecting the planet was a widely promoted idea. Population control was a popular solution, widely promoted on a global scale…
Apr 18
Applications for the 2017-2018 Miscarriage Care Initiative are now available! The Miscarriage Care Initiative is an effort by the Reproductive Health Access Project to integrate comprehensive management of early pregnancy loss into primary care settings. Our vision is to support family physicians and clinic administrators to integrate all three forms of miscarriage management—expectant, medication, and manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) management—into…
Apr 14
Anita Ravi, MD, MPH, MSHP is a family physician engaged in clinical, research, and policy work focused on addressing gender-based violence and health. She is the founder and clinical director of the Institute for Family Health’s PurpLE Clinic (Purpose: Listen and Engage), a primary care clinic that serves people who have experienced sexual trauma, including…
Apr 11
One in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime. But, there are many factors restricting access to abortion care: restrictive abortion laws, lack of trained clinicians, and financial cost to name a few. With your help, RHAP works to expand access to abortion care by supporting and training primary care clinicians nationwide. Over…
Apr 04
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual violence includes a range of actions and behaviors and happens to people of all ages, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and incomes. It happens every day. This is a gendered form of violence: in the U.S., one in five women and one in 71 men report experiencing rape at…
Mar 31
Our final day of #WomensHistoryMonth coincides with Transgender Day of Visibility. We want to shed light to the importance that trans activist Miss Major has contributed to LGBT rights and her work with the transgender community. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, best known as Miss Major is a formerly incarcerated, black trans woman and pioneering activist in…
Mar 31
March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility. This is a day of empowerment, a day to bring attention to the trans people around the world, and to spread knowledge of the trans community. In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, we are sharing with you our guide to clinicians on providing contraceptive care for LGBT…
Mar 24
This #WomensHistoryMonth Friday, we recognize March 25th as the 106th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. A devastating 146 immigrants of Jewish and Italian descent lost their lives, 123 of them being young women and teenage girls. As the industrial revolution took full force, inhumane working conditions were the…
Mar 21
In response to a call for more advocacy post-election and post-Women’s March, we have created a new page on the website under the “Get Involved” section–“Mobilize.” This page will serve as a resource for RHAP’s supporters to engage in advocacy in various ways. The “Active Campaigns” section lists actions our allies are organizing at the…