The COVID-19 pandemic is having
potentially catastrophic secondary impacts on the health of women and girls around the world.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are already seeing the challenges women face in accessing essential sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, treatment for sexual violence, and safe abortion care. We fear sharp increases in maternal and neonatal mortality unless concerted action is taken to mitigate the worst effects of the pandemic. The reality is that more women and girls could die due to the pandemic’s disruption of sexual and reproductive health services than to the coronavirus itself. |
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ONLINE DISCUSSION SERIES
Continues
Thursday, July 9
1:00 PM EDT
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Join us this Thursday, July 9, for an online event hosted by MSF-USA executive director Avril Benoît in conversation with Dr. Manisha Kumar, coordinator of the MSF task force on safe abortion care, and Dr. Maura Emelina Lainez Vaquiz,
who provides health education and counseling for women and girls in our project in Cortés Department in Honduras. In this next episode of our discussion series Let’s talk COVID-19,
Manisha and Maura will talk about some of the particular dangers of this COVID-19 era, which threaten to reverse the progress made over the last 30 years to protect the health of women and girls. They will also share ideas for adaptation and innovation, such as moving to more community-based and self-managed models of care.
NOTE: Your registration gives you access to all events* in this free discussion series. Once you register, you'll receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link to attend online, and email reminders before each event. (You will also have the option to dial in by phone.)
*If you missed earlier events in our series, catch up here.
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