Restrictions on mobility, lack of information, increased isolation, and fear have led to a 50% decrease in reports in Bangladesh and 30% in Tanzania. In Iraq, new cases only began to come through in the last week of April, resulting in nearly two months without a reported case. If life-saving aid cannot get into the areas where refugees and displaced persons live, the final remaining lifelines for at-risk women will be cut off.
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Women Deliver outlinea key actions that civil society, governments, the private sector, and multilateral organizations should take to address the gendered dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis
NAGAT and Hakoura are two community-based organizations serving the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of Jordan’s vulnerable, particularly refugee girls. The organizations jointly provide SRH and gender-based violence (GBV) programming for Palestinian, Syrian, and Iraqi refugee women and girls in Jordanian camps, in addition to acknowledging the needs of urban refugees and girls with disabilities.
We are inviting young people to join our webinar series to make sure young people’s voices, issues, and ideas are included in a critical resource for adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Please email Katie Meyer.
Incorporating measures to ensure safe abortion services into state pandemic responses and eliminating barriers to abortion is not just a matter of harm reduction — it is a human rights imperative. Enabling self-managed abortion by guaranteeing access to medications and telemedicine counseling and ensuring women are not criminalized for inducing their own abortions could be a critical step towards fulfilling states’ binding human rights obligations and avoiding preventable abortion complications, including during the COVID-19 crisis
HANDS one of the leading NGO in Pakistan has initiated COVID-19 response with the support of different donors and local philanthropy since mid-March 2020. In this regard, HANDS has supported the poorest families by providing Family Planning services to women in the community through trained health staff.