Focus Areas
Working towards global reproductive choice; autonomy and empowerment; and gender equality.
Commitment Makers
Creating a future for women and girls with the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives.
Reproductive freedom is not a reality for many women across the globe. For too many women, access to quality family planning still depends on where they live and how much money they make.
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the landscape for immunization and other primary health care services across the world, including in low- and middle-income countries.
CARE was one of the first humanitarian organisations to provide SRH services during the initial emergency, and based on the need to integrate services, they began to provide multi-sectoral programmes for SRH and GBV support.
This week, our newsletter comes to you from a different perspective. Our names are Yacine, Emma, Samantha, and Sofia, and we are the four youngest members of the FP2020 Secretariat.
Adolescent and young adult reproductive health care needs are not diminished during pandemics.
Aina, 24, is in the last month of her pregnancy. This alone would be reason for some anxiety. “As it’s [my] first time, I’m worried,” Aina told UNFPA. But with the country’s partial lockdown, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aina faces an unexpected challenge: the suspension of public transportation. Her local hospital, Itaosy District Hospital of Reference, is a two-hour walk away.
A family planning board is predicting an uptick in unintended pregnancies in Indonesia as condoms and other forms of birth control are becoming less available amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In India and around the world, community health workers are being rerouted to deal with the pandemic—with dangerous results.
Although mortality rates for COVID-19 appear to be low in children and in women of reproductive age, these groups might be disproportionately affected by the disruption of routine health services, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Family planning is an essential health service, and the need for it does not diminish in a crisis—even as obstacles to health care mount.
