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Providing Contraception for Young People During a Pandemic Is Essential Health Care

Members of the Mississippi Youth Council (MYCouncil) advocate at the state capitol around sex education in their schools. MYCouncil is a program of Teen Health Mississippi that supports and promotes high-quality, comprehensive sex education for all young people.

Adolescent and young adult reproductive health care needs are not diminished during pandemics.

Free transport helps pregnant women in Madagascar safely deliver amid COVID-19 lockdown

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.

Lack of Family Planning Access Due to COVID-19 Could Cause a Rise in Unintended Pregnancies in Indonesia

Young Asian Pregnant woman using tablet search pregnancy information. Mom feeling happy smiling positive and peaceful while take care her child lying on sofa in living room at home concept.

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.

Family Planning Efforts Upended by the Coronavirus

.Bidi workers at home: Rookmani Ram Naryan ( left) and her daughter Kavita Harshiresh Yemul make money hand rolling Indian style cigarettes called Bidi.

In India and around the world, community health workers are being rerouted to deal with the pandemic—with dangerous results.

The paradigm shift for family planning in Uganda

Roselline Achola looks at the lessons for frontline health workers

Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

A mother holds her newborn twins, who were delivered under the supervision of trained health professionals at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, a public health facility. Institutional births are one of the government of India's key strategies to reduce infant and maternal mortality, and to improve the overall health of the mother and child. An average of 7,000 births take place at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital each year.

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).

Weekly COVID-19 Updates & Resources from FP2020

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.

Gender-based Violence is Surging & Family Planning is Threatened. We can do better.

As the COVID-19 pandemic makes stay-at-home orders the new normal, the world is seeing another global surge: violence against women and girls. Countries across the globe are experiencing dramatic increases in reports of sexual offenses, calls to helplines, and demand for emergency shelter.

UNFPA Supplies COVID-19 Update

Halima Umubyeyi is a health worker who often participates in Kasha's community outreach programs. Kasha is an e-commerce company that enables confidential purchases of health care products, including contraceptives, pregnancy tests, and HIV oral self-test kits. Given the stigma frequently associated with requesting these products, this confidentiality facilitates access to sexual and reproductive health information and counseling, particularly for youth. Kasha holds community outreach programs to sensitize people to its confidential services.

COVID-19 is already causing disruptions in family planning services. UNFPA estimates that 47 million women may lose access to modern contraception if the situation continues for 6 months and could lead to nearly 7 million unintended pregnancies.

Reaching First-Time Parents in the TCIHC-Supported Youth-Friendly Cities of Uttar Pradesh

Young family with child posing on the background of an abandoned building

The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC) in India worked strategically through its adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) program to reach first-time parents with informed-choice counseling and modern contraceptive services over a six-month period ending June 2019 in five cities in Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad, Firozabad, Gorakhpur, Saharanpur and Varanasi).