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Sexual and reproductive morbidity: not a priority

Marge Berer, RHM 40

I approached the submissions for this journal issue with trepidation. I was worried that most of them would be about prevalence, clinical manifestations and treatment of various forms of sexual and reproductive morbidity. I need not have worried. RHM is not seen as a clinical journal, and the submissions almost all fell into other categories, to do with health policy and regulations, the law, service delivery, social and political determinants of health, and the personal and professional experiences and perspectives of women and men, service providers and policymakers. In fact, this journal issue offers an incredibly diverse collection of perspectives on a wide range of morbidities, with papers from some 20 countries.

A good number of the papers focus on personal experiences, which command attention. In the face of the imminent threat of war in the Middle East as I write this, the paper on "no safe place" for childbirth in Gaza, which opens this journal issue, is timely.

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