Recognizing the extent to which disease outbreaks affect women and men differently is a fundamental step to understanding the primary and secondary effects of a health emergency on different individuals and communities, and for creating effective, equitable policies and interventions.
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Article in Humanitarian Exchange's special issue on the 2018-2020 DRC Ebola response, focusing on the impact of the outbreak on SRH.
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.
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.
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.
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.