In this Call to Action more than 60 human rights organizations urges key stakeholders to urgently implement measures protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The study, published in BMJ Global Health, analyzes available data on pregnancy intentions and abortion among women of reproductive age (15–49) from 2015 to 2019. It reveals significant disparities in unintended pregnancy and abortion rates across countries, including between countries within the same region. And, further highlights the importance of equitable investment in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care and will further inform countries working to implement WHO’s new guidelines for quality abortion services.
This webinar explains how to use the Planning for Comprehensive SRH in Crisis-Affected Settings: A Participatory Workshop Toolkit to Transition from the MISP. Learn from colleagues’ experiences leading workshops in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Yemen, and how the planning process contributed to strengthening health systems and resilience for SRH.
In Rwanda, the situation for refugees in Mahama Refugee Camp has worsened, as COVID-19 lockdown measures increased needs while restricting access to basic services. Few assessments have been conducted on the SRH needs of refugees in Mahama camp, including adolescents and youth, since COVID-19. To address this gap, the IAWG ASRH SWG and Save the Children led the research with more than 700 adolescent and youth refugees and host community members in Mahama Refugee Settlement during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Humanitarian Settings Dashboard is a tool for stakeholders working in countries affected by humanitarian crises to identify and compare the most recent maternal mortality, stillbirth and neonatal mortality burden estimates from national household surveys and global modelling exercises. Country profiles present the most recent national survey and modelled mortality estimates, as well as available notes on sampling strategy adjustments for household surveys and data sources used in statistical modelling.
The evidence brief presents selected results of two components of the Abortion-related Morbidity and Mortality in Conflict-affected and Fragile Settings (AMoCo) study: A quantitative observational study of clinical characteristics of women presenting with any type of abortion complications, and a quantitative survey with a sub-group of these women who were hospitalised.
This piece sources GBV resources and materials that can support GBV humanitarian response to Ukraine crisis, in response to a GBV AoR Helpdesk enquiry.
This is a summary of what was said by Karolina Lindholm Billing, UNHCR’s Representative to Ukraine – to whom quoted text may be attributed – speaking from Lviv to today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. (25 March 2022)
Success Depends on Collaboration: Cross-Sector Technical Brief on Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition in Humanitarian Settings from the IAWG Maternal and Newborn Health Sub working Group aims to bolster this collaborative effort by providing nutrition and health program staff working in humanitarian settings with guidelines, tools, resources, and examples of best practices, to promote linkages and integrated service delivery across nutrition and maternal and newborn health in humanitarian response. Available in English and French.
The Canadian Advisory of Women Immigrants (CAWI) is conducting community-based research on the sexual and reproductive health of women immigrants through focus discussion groups. They are looking for women and gender diverse folk who identify as immigrants and have attended Canada's education institutions to apply, in order to inform our research and the curriculum they are building. In essence, our goal is to create a culturally sensitive sexual health curriculum that is adapted to the needs of women and gender-diverse immigrants in Canada.
Over the course of their lives, women may choose to start, stop, or switch family planning methods to meet their reproductive needs and preferences. By understanding the dynamics of contraceptive use, health policy and program decisionmakers can better deliver high-quality, client-centered services that enable women and couples to make the best family planning choices for themselves.
Days for Girls International shares lessons learned from their locally-led team in Malawi about what it takes to cultivate supportive menstrual health environments that stand the test of time. Check out the full article to learn how DfG centers community voices, local leadership, social entrepreneurship and advocacy to create holistic programs, set up to endure.