Target 3.7: Universal access to reproductive health care
By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
WHO counts 164 million women with unmet need for contraception. It attributes the gap to limited availability in low-resource settings, fear of side effects and misinformation, provider bias and stigma. These are matters for governments, donors and health systems. Corporate conduct enters through contraceptive and pharmaceutical manufacturers' pricing and supply. Investors raised an access question of this kind in 2024 patent-and-access proposals at six pharmaceutical companies. Shareholders coordinated by Rhia Ventures also filed a record 31 reproductive-health proposals for 2023 proxy ballots. These concern US employee benefits, data privacy and political spending. We found no resolution on contraceptive commodity access in low-resource settings. Owners therefore help at the margin.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
- Family planning/contraception methods, World Health Organization, 2025-07-03
- 2024 Shareholder Proposals at Pharma Companies Cite Strategies to Keep Drug Prices High as Potential Human Rights Risks, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, 2023-12-14
- Press: Shareholders File Numerous Proposals Addressing Access to Reproductive Health Care for 2023 Proxy Ballots, Rhia Ventures, 2023-01-24
20 campaigns on record
Set up and report on a way of weighing what an extended patent monopoly would do to people's ability to get the medicine, before deciding whether to apply for follow-on patents.
Result: Filed for the 2024 annual meeting. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Set up and report on a way of weighing what an extended patent monopoly would do to people's ability to get the medicine, before deciding whether to apply for follow-on patents.
Result: Filed for the 2024 annual meeting. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Set up and report on a way of weighing what an extended patent monopoly would do to people's ability to get the medicine, before deciding whether to apply for follow-on patents.
Result: Filed for the 2024 annual meeting. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Set up and report on a way of weighing what an extended patent monopoly would do to people's ability to get the medicine, before deciding whether to apply for follow-on patents.
Result: Filed for the 2024 annual meeting. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Report to shareholders on the risks that state laws restricting reproductive health care create for the business, and on what the company is doing to limit them.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Report to shareholders on the risks that state laws restricting reproductive health care create for the business, and on what the company is doing to limit them.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Report to shareholders on the risks that state laws restricting reproductive health care create for the business, and on what the company is doing to limit them.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Report to shareholders on the risks that state laws restricting reproductive health care create for the business, and on what the company is doing to limit them.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
With Nia Impact Capital
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Stop giving money to politicians and political committees working to restrict access to reproductive health care, or explain how that giving squares with what the company says it stands for.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Provide strong maternal health care benefits to employees.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Address the risk that reproductive health data the company collects and keeps could be exposed, and report to shareholders on how the company protects it.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Address the risk that reproductive health data the company collects and keeps could be exposed, and report to shareholders on how the company protects it.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Address the risk that reproductive health data the company collects and keeps could be exposed, and report to shareholders on how the company protects it.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Address the risk that reproductive health data the company collects and keeps could be exposed, and report to shareholders on how the company protects it.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
Address the risk that reproductive health data the company collects and keeps could be exposed, and report to shareholders on how the company protects it.
Result: Filed for the 2023 annual meeting as part of a set of 31 proposals coordinated by Rhia Ventures. The announcement of the filings does not report what happened at the vote, and we did not retrieve a source reporting the outcome for this company.
We found no documented change.
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How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
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