This document notes the emerging gender impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia and the Pacific, along with recommendations.
UNHCR would like to share the following key protection messages, based on international refugee and human rights law, for advocacy by other organizations. These will be updated as needed, and feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19
CARE, International Rescue Committee (IRC)CARE adapted its Rapid Gender Analysis toolkit to develop the Global Rapid Gender Analysis on COVID-19, conducted in consultation with the International Rescue Committee (IRC). This report is for humanitarians working in fragile contexts that are likely to be affected by the COVID-19 crisis.
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.
This statement’s purpose is to provide guidance to IPPF Member Associations and other sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights organizations to support the sustained provision of essential and life‑saving SRH services in the context of the COVID‑19.
COVID-19 Social Media Toolkit for Family Planning Providers
Family Planning National Training Center (FPNTC)This social media toolkit provides sample social media content and images that family planning sites can use to communicate important information about the availability of and changes to services during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The Health of Male and LGBT Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
All Survivors Project and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineThis report documents key findings from a literature review on health interventions for men, boys and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
Information on the impact of COVID-19 on early pregnancy outcomes remains unavailable at the time of writing. Non-pregnant women of childbearing age are also at low risk of severe disease.
Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
Center for Global Development | Amber Peterman , Alina Potts , Megan O'Donnell , Kelly Thompson , Niyati Shah , Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and Nicole van GelderThe regional or global nature and associated fear and uncertainty associated with pandemics provide an enabling environment that may exacerbate or spark diverse forms of violence. Understanding the mechanisms underlying these dynamics is important for crafting policy and program responses to mitigate adverse effects. Based on existing published and grey literature, we document nine main (direct and indirect) pathways linking pandemics and violence against women and children.
COVID-19 Module Released within the Safe Delivery App
Maternity FoundationThe new COVID-19 module was created to ensure that health care workers providing essential maternal newborn health services have access to up-to-date information on how to minimize exposure to COVID-19 for both themselves and their clients. The module includes an instructional video focused on Infection Prevention (relevant for all health care workers), as well as clinical checklists and information to help providers answer questions that may arise when counseling and caring for clients during the COVID-19 pandemic, including information on breastfeeding and vertical transmission. The COVID-19 module will be continuously updated as new information and clinical best practices become available.
Save the Children COMPASS COVID-19 Module
Save the ChildrenCOMPASS is Save the Children's platform for storing standardized programming guidelines. COMPASS includes guidelines for community, mass delivery, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), HIV/TB, primary, and secondary programming interventions. The COMPASS team has recently added five COVID-19 modules on SRH, Preventative Measures at the Community Level, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Case Management at the Facility Level, and Case Management at the Community Level.