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This tool highlights the considerations for adapting the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) activities during the preparedness and response phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is meant to serve as a companion document to the IAWG programmatic guidance for SRH in humanitarian and fragile settings during COVID-19.
Users of this document should carefully consider the context, stage, and progression of the pandemic. It is important to recognize that the COVID-19 situation will be a bi-directional process, moving in different directions between epidemic phases (rather than in one direction). Therefore, program implementers must be ready to constantly monitor, adjust, move forward, and quickly reverse processes depending on the disease transmission patterns, and how they change as a result of the shifts in government implemented measures. However, it is important to remember that SRH services at the facility level should remain accessible to the greatest extent possible.
This should be complemented by community-based and/or remote service delivery options including options for self-care, where feasible, particularly in situations where access to facilities will not be possible.
The tool is available as both an interactive Excel document in English and Spanish and a printable PDF checklist.
If you have feedback or questions about this tool, please email IAWG.COVID19@gmail.com. We appreciate your feedback!
This document provides programmatic guidance to help maintain essential preventative, promotive, and curative sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in fragile and humanitarian settings during the COVID-19 epidemic threat and outbreak period; including general guidance, the continuation of sexual and reproductive health services, information and communication, and infection prevention and control. The guidance is available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
The Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) on Reproductive Health in Crisis urges governments, humanitarian actors, and the private sector to work together to incorporate women’s and girls’ access to essential and rights-fulfilling SRH services during the COVID-19 public health response. We have provided a suite of advocacy tools, including the full advocacy statement, advocacy summary, a social media toolkit, and "Not a Luxury: a Call to Maintain Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings During the COVID-19 Pandemic."
IAWG members and partners are producing clinical and programmatic guidance, assessments, policy papers, and statements to ensure continued prioritization of sexual and reproductive health and rights throughout COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings, and to bring a gender lens to the response.
IAWG members and partners are producing clinical and programmatic guidance, assessments, policy papers, and statements to ensure continued prioritization of sexual and reproductive health and rights throughout COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings.