The latest issue of the ASTRA Network Bulletin is now available, bringing together key developments, advocacy efforts and community initiatives from across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The burning issue focuses on Moldova, where telemedicine medical abortion has returned to the national Clinical Protocol on Safe Abortion Care following months of sustained advocacy by the Reproductive Health Training Center and its partners. Although access remains limited to crisis and exceptional situations, the decision represents an important step towards restoring evidence-based and equitable abortion care.

This edition also covers:

• the growing use of anti-abortion and anti-gender narratives ahead of Armenia’s parliamentary elections;
• the launch of a mifepristone–misoprostol combi-pack and provider training on medical abortion in Azerbaijan;
• persistent stigma, confidentiality risks and restrictions on reproductive autonomy faced by people living with HIV in Georgia;
• the first International MARA Forum, which centred Roma women’s leadership, community knowledge and reproductive justice;
• continuing advocacy by Romanian midwives for professional autonomy, reimbursement and stronger integration into the public healthcare system;
• developments in comprehensive sexuality education, menstrual poverty, violence against women in politics, masculinity and democracy, and feminist organising across the region.

The bulletin also features updates from the ASTRA Network Annual Event 2026 in Warsaw and the premiere of our new film, ASTRA Network: A United Voice for SRHR in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Read the full bulletin and help share SRHR developments from across the region with your networks.