This statement was developed by the International Medical Advisory Panel (IMAP) in September 2022 and updated in August 2024. Mpox is a viral zoonotic disease typically occurring in tropical areas in central and west Africa. Transmission between humans can occur by close contact through sexual contact, respiratory secretions, skin lesions of an infected person or objects recently touched/ contaminated. The statement includes key messages on Mpox and sexual and reproductive health as it relates to prevention, treatment, and stigma.
Early Warning Systems (EWS) are vital components of disaster risk management and the resilience of health systems, providing local stakeholders—governments, service providers, and communities—with the necessary information and time to prepare for and respond quickly to disasters and other hazardous events. This brief describes current EWS capabilities in DRC, Mali, Niger, and South Sudan and provides recommendations for strengthening these systems to improve maternal and newborn and child health/family planning/reproductive health outcomes.
Drawing from the case studies developed for Mali and South Sudan, this brief aims to synthesize key findings, commonalities, and differences in each context as it pertains to the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDpN) and applications to family planning, reproductive health and maternal, newborn, and child health (FP/RH/MNCH) interventions. These themes were drawn from the original HDN conceptual framework developed for MIHR by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Both Mali and South Sudan are deeply complex and fragile environments, with the caveat that such fragility is not uniform across each country.
This is a collection of eight original implementation research studies on the feasibility, acceptability and appropriate use of heat-stable carbetocin and tranexamic acid for postpartum hemorrhage prevention and treatment, respectively, including in humanitarian settings. This work captures a combined total of 126,882 women who delivered in 103 facilities, with insights from 679 healthcare providers, across nine low- and middle-income countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Uganda).
The OpenWHO platform hosts open-access courses on mpox to support the response to the current emergency. The learning resources provide critical knowledge on the disease and have been developed to provide health care workers, public health professionals and other stakeholders with essential knowledge and tools to effectively manage and contain mpox
Maternity Foundation works closely with partners, including national governments and local and international associations, as well as with UN agencies and international NGOs. Together, partners integrate evidence-based services into project-specific and national education and training programs, pre-service curricula, in-service training, and with other digital solutions. This ensures sustainability and further enhances the scalability of its digital solutions and programs.
This brief provides practical recommendations to help government and aid providers mitigate the impact of language-related challenges in their communication with communities at risk of or experiencing an mpox outbreak.
Breakthrough ACTION conducted a landscape analysis of SBC for FP in fragile and humanitarian crisis settings. A mix of approaches was used to learn about global, regional, and country-level activities and led to findings and recommendations.
An IAWG Task Team has been formed to develop operational programmatic guidance for decision-making on sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including maternal and newborn health services, in fragile and humanitarian settings experiencing or at risk of Mpox outbreaks. The guidance is available in both English and French and its intended target audience is SRH programme managers and healthcare providers in fragile and humanitarian settings.
The International Confederation of Midwives has released "Interlocked: Midwives and the Climate Crisis", a report highlighting midwives' role in addressing the health challenges posed by climate change and building climate-resilient health systems. The report reveals how midwives and community-based healthcare providers are already responding to climate disasters while grappling with increasing challenges like extreme heat, flooding, and displacement. Based on survey responses from midwives in 41 countries globally, the report reveals climate change's deep and far-reaching impacts on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health.
A new report by the Humanitarian Policy Group explores what's next for humanitarian action in the era of feminist foreign policy (FFP) taking a specific look at the impact of narratives on ambition and opposition, focusing on Canada and Germany. It highlights that humanitarians are struggling to understand feminist foreign policy beyond targeting the needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls, including those related to sexual and reproductive health, sometimes even despite claims to a more intersectional, relational and systemic approach.