Article in Humanitarian Exchange's special issue on the 2018-2020 DRC Ebola response, focusing on the impact of the outbreak on SRH.
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Approximately 200,000 people have spontaneously gathered and settled in sites where they lack essential needs. Humanitarian agencies need to urgently step up and scale up assistance to people.
This initiative comes as a response to growing evidence that reproductive health services and maternity wards frequently manipulate several types of biological fluid throughout the chain of reproductive and maternal health care; ranging from gynecological consultations to the management of wastes after child birth.
UNFPA wants to reduce the risk to healthcare providers providing obstetric and gynecological care during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Helena Nordenstedt and Hans Rosling published a Comment in The Lancet, titled Chasing 60% of maternal deaths in the post-fact era, that points out an inaccurate and widely used statistic on maternal mortality in humanitarian settings.
Four leading aid organizations are scaling up operations to assist Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia as the number of Venezuelans displaced in the region passes 4.8 million.