WHAT WE DO

Australian women continue to have poor sexual and reproductive health, which impacts them, their families and the broader community. Current service gaps we have identified include:

•  Increasing understanding, awareness and uptake of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)

•  Increasing access and service provision of medical termination of pregnancy

•  Improving the delivery of preconception care to optimise pregnancy outcomes

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Consequently, SPHERE has developed a research program that is focused on three important areas of women's sexual and reproductive health: abortion, contraception, and preconception care. We will develop and test innovative, cost-effective, and feasible strategies to improve the delivery of these services in primary care and explore women's preferences to increase access and uptake.

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SPHERE aims to create a paradigm shift in the way general practitioners and other primary care providers deliver abortion, contraception and preconception care by transforming their previously siloed style of practice into one that recognises the interconnectedness of contraception, abortion and pregnancy planning for individual women and the need to use an integrated life course approach to help women achieve their own reproductive goals.