Focus Area 2
Create a healthy information environment that enables all people to make contraceptive choices aligned with their needs and desires
Context
Since 2022, the CECA has brought together evidence and diverse stakeholders to understand the impact of shifts in the sexual and reproductive health landscape, foster strategic collaboration, and improve contraceptive access and sexual and reproductive health equity (SRHE) more broadly.
The resulting Strategy to Preserve and Expand Contraceptive Access features five focus areas that detail what we aim to achieve and communicate where people should direct their work, recommended actions to prioritize and move forward now, and examples of work completed or underway.
Recommended Actions to Create a Healthy Information Environment
Develop clear informational resources to ensure that various audiences, including policymakers, providers, and the public, understand contraception. Resources may include accurate and accessible guidelines for how to safely disclose health histories to contraceptive care providers, culturally responsive and multi-lingual fact sheets or talking points that convey the legality of contraception and abortion, and clear descriptions of the mechanisms of action of contraceptive methods.
Design and implement practical strategies to address contraceptive mis- and disinformation, such as clinical trainings, guides, and tools to improve provider awareness and enable clear, affirming, and evidence-based responses to contraceptive mis- and disinformation in patient and community interactions.
Develop and disseminate direct campaigns that translate resources into effective messaging; tailor dissemination tactics; and invest in broader informational efforts (e.g., comprehensive sex education programs) that meet the needs of specific health system, legislative, and community contexts.