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HIV, Gender and Respectful Birth: Dismantling Stigma and Guaranteeing Rights in Perinatal Care
This article examines, from a gender and human rights perspective, how these forms of violence emerge in perinatal care, how they affect the emotional and clinical experience of women living with HIV, and which institutional and cultural transformations are needed to build a fully respectful and inclusive model of care.
Third Consortium Meeting of the European project IPOV – RESPECTFUL CARE at URV
On 16 January 2026, from 15:00 to 19:00, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV, Tarragona) will organise the Third Consortium Meeting of the European project IPOV – RESPECTFUL CARE (International Platform on Obstetric Violence & Respectful Care), funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Staff Exchange, Grant Agreement No. 101130141).
Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine Immunology (PNEI) of Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum
Understanding the psycho-neuro-endocrine phenomena of birth to prevent the use of the 'Force Paradigm' in childbirth care.
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Perinatal Mental Health and Obstetric Violence: Tensions, Impacts and Restorative Horizons
Obstetric violence and perinatal mental health are intertwined phenomena that have gained visibility within interdisciplinary research on human rights, gender and public health. Within the IPOV project (International Platform on Obstetric Violence), which seeks to develop global conceptual frameworks and strategies to address obstetric violence, it is crucial to explore how these experiences affect the psychological well-being of women, pregnant people, their babies and families, as well as the possible practices of reparation.
The Body Knows, the Space Accompanies
In the heart of a public maternity hospital in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, a multidisciplinary team decided to transform the space where births take place, enhancing the mother’s salutogenic resources stimulated by the environment. This experience, born at the Maternal and Child Hospital of San Isidro, shows that transforming the obstetric care model is possible from within the public system, when there is conviction, care, and a desire for change.
Restorative Justice in Childbirth
Restorative justice is an approach to justice focused on repairing the harm caused to the victim through the active participation of both the victim and the responsible party, in contrast to the traditional punitive paradigm.
IPOV fosters dialogue on mental health and obstetric violence at the First Latin American Congress on Perinatal Mental Health
As part of the First Latin American Congress on Perinatal Mental Health, held from 15–18 October 2025 in Viña del Mar, Chile, the symposium “Mental Health and Obstetric Violence: From First-Person Experiences to Integral Interventions” was coordinated by two members of the IPOV – Respectful Care project: Dr. Carolina Farías (University of the Republic, Uruguay) and Dr. María Fernanda González (National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina).
The Power of the Visual: How Graphic Recording Helped Synthesize the IPOV Midterm Meeting
During the IPOV Project Midterm Meeting (2025), a strategic collaboration was established between Marta Bariáin Echániz, product engineer and visual facilitator specialised in graphic recording, and the Diseño Social team, led by María Hidalgo Rudilla, responsible for Dissemination and Communication. This process aimed to strengthen IPOV’s visual communication and interdisciplinary knowledge transfer by making project results more accessible, understandable, and reusable.
Project IPOV RESPECTFULCARE has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Staff Exchange programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.