The focus of this tool is to forecast essential supplies: it includes the estimation of personal protective equipment, diagnostic equipment, biomedical equipment for case management, essential drugs for supportive care, and consumable medical supplies.
Job Aid: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Healthcare Workers and Community Healthcare Workers
JhpiegoBased on World Health Organization guidelines, Jhpiego developed a handy infographic for health care workers, support staff and community health workers to help identify and utilize the right personal protective equipment.
WHO COVID-19 Questions WhatsApp
World Health Organization (WHO)Do you have questions about COVID-19? Open the link and text "Hi" to the WhatsApp number. We will answer!
Inter-Agency Reproductive Health Kits Country Forecasting Tool
JSI, UNFPA, IAWGThe Country Inter-Agency Reproductive Health (IARH) Kits Forecasting Tool is an excel-based planning tool for country-level forecasting of IARH kits. It estimates the number of IARH kits needed for the acute phase (first three months) of a humanitarian crisis and up to a maximum of nine months. Adjustments can be made for a longer acute phase if service or logistics data is available (up to nine months only to encourage requests for bulk sexual and reproductive health supplies during sustained situations). The tool also provides an advocacy dashboard to help mobilize resources for services and supplies during an emergency.
Identifying & Mitigating Gender-based Violence Risks within the COVID-19 Response
IASC & Global Protection ClusterThe tip sheet identifies key, sector-specific GBV risks that we believe are likely to occur and/or be exacerbated during the COVID response, along with recommendations on how to mitigate these risks.
Accountability strategies for sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in humanitarian settings: a scoping review
Marta Schaaf, Victoria Boydell, Mallory C. Sheff, Christina Kay, Fatemeh Torabi, Rajat Khosla | Conflict & HealthIn the last 20 years, there has been increasing standard and guideline development and program experiences related to accountability in humanitarian settings. Yet, the emphasis is on tools or mechanisms for accountability with less attention to changing norms regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights within affected communities, and to a lesser extent, among implementers of humanitarian programs or to institutionalizing community participation.
News & Updates
EmergencyNine Things Congress Must Do to Safeguard Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Age of COVID-19
Guttmacher InstituteEven with the pandemic wreaking havoc on the U.S. and global health care systems and economies, reproductive health care needs and decisions cannot be put on hold during the COVID-19 crisis. As Congress prepares additional relief packages, here is what it needs to prioritize to ensure that all people can make the decisions that are right for them and their families.
IPPF Advocacy Key Messages: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and COVID-19
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)In these unprecedented and uncertain times, it is critical to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) remain an integral part of essential health services, that there are opportunities to improve policy and guide frameworks to reduce barriers to SRH services, and that governments ensure gender and human rights-based approaches to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. This document offers a set of general asks aimed at providing member associations with guidance on the key areas/ issues to advocate for with their governments.
The gendered dimensions of COVID-19
The LancetThe success of the global response—the ability of both women and men to survive and recover from the pandemic's effects—will depend on the quality of evidence informing the response and the extent to which data represent sex and gender differences.
Centring sexual and reproductive health and justice in the global COVID-19 response
The Lancet | Kelli Stidham Hall, Goleen Samari, Samantha Garbers, Sara E Casey, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Miriam Orcutt, et al.A sexual and reproductive health and justice framework—one that centres human rights, acknowledges intersecting injustices, recognises power structures, and unites across identities—is essential for monitoring and addressing the inequitable gender, health, and social effects of COVID-19.
COVID-19: Reducing the risk of infection might increase the risk of intimate partner violence
eClinicalMedicine (Published by The Lancet)A recent review drawing on lessons from past pandemics shows the length of quarantine increases the risk for serious psychological consequences. A relevant, yet frequently ignored risk during a pandemic and its socially disrupting response, is the potential increase of intimate partner violence (IPV).