Ready to Save Lives: New Tool to Prepare for Continuation of SRH Care in a Crisis
The Ready to Save Lives toolkit features a series of learning briefs capturing SRH preparedness activities from multiple countries and contexts.
News Topic: COVID-19 & Family Planning
Post-Abortion Care & Postpartum Family Planning During COVID-19
Opportunities and Challenges: An Interview with GHSP Journal Authors
Global Call to Action for the Provision of Rights-Based, Client-Centered SRH During and After COVID-19
The global health community reaffirms its commitment to ensuring rights-based, clientcentered SRH services, including the full range of available contraceptive methods, HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment, and cervical cancer services during and after COVID-19.
News and Updates from FP2020
While we have made great strides in increasing access to family planning in the past eight years, we recognize that women and girls live in complex realities. To ensure the greatest success, our family planning commitments must be person-centered and rights-based, with equity and justice at their core.
Senegal: A Leader in Access to FP/RH Care During COVID-19
COVID-19 is demonstrating the impact of epidemics on the continuity of care provision, particularly for FP/RH. This is why, in addition to the measures taken to fight COVID-19, we realized the importance of carrying out parallel actions that guarantee the availability and continuity of essential RMNCAH services.
How Are Governments Ensuring That Voluntary Family Planning Remains an Essential Service during COVID-19?
Amid an inconsistent designation of “essential” services, overburdened health facilities, lockdowns, supply chain interruptions, and travel restrictions, without decisive action, provision of voluntary family planning will inevitably decline, with potentially devastating effects.
News and Updates from FP2020
FP2020 has had the honor of partnering with civil society organizations (CSOs) on many initiatives: family planning advocacy, government and donor accountability, increasing country budgets for family planning services, and so much more. These partnerships with the advocacy community have become a cornerstone to FP2020’s progress. As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19, our civil society partners have been instrumental in keeping family planning on the national agenda in their own countries.
Opportunities and Challenges of Delivering Postabortion Care and Postpartum Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is poised to cause infection and death in millions of people across the globe at a stunning pace.
New findings confirm global disruptions in essential health services for women and children from COVID-19
Health impacts of lockdowns, economic losses in poor nations require targeted action and vigilance to save lives and protect against a worsening crisis
The Great Disruptor: COVID-19 Threatens Essential Health Services for Women and Children
“The world is at risk of losing millions of women and children due to reductions in coverage of essential services, reversing hard-earned progress towards the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] to date and posing catastrophic consequences for households and communities,” said Dr. Koki Agarwal, Project Director of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership award, at a recent event on the importance of ensuring continuity of maternal, newborn, and child health services, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was the first in a series of virtual country knowledge exchange discussions organized by USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, led by Jhpiego and partners.
