From reproduction to rights: participatory approaches to sexual and reproductive health.

A brief review of participatory approaches to sexual and reproductive health is offered with a view to capturing shifts in methods and approaches with the conceptual shifts that have occurred from considering women as only reproducers to taking a rights based notion of their reproductive and sexual health. By providing the editorial overview for articles on sexual and reproductive health in this volume, the authors tease out the main issues that need to be considered by participatory development practitioners working in the area of sexual and reproductive health. They also challenge practitioners to re-think stereotyped ways of looking at sexuality, gender and health.