A webinar on the implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the era of Covid-19, Sexual and reproductive health matters led the discussion around the situations being faced by vulnerable and key populations and the actions that are needed in this emergency response.
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.
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.
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.
This 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.
The 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.
The 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.
COMPASS 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.