Sexual and reproductive health and rights during COVID-19

• Pandemic heightens vulnerabilities of persons with disabilities
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article shows the difficulties persons with disabilities face in accessing health care services, including SRHR and information during the times of COVID-19.
• Putting the brakes on COVID-19: Safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article illustrates the toll of COVID-19 on women in general and on their SRHR specifically.
• Three things you need to know about contraceptives and COVID-19
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article highlights how COVID-19 has impacted access to contraceptives and SRHR services.
• Self-Care during COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO
  This document gives 10 actions to be followed to maintain and improve sexual and reproductive health during COVID-19 and aims to empower individuals, including adolescents and youth.
• Gender and COVID-19: Advocacy Brief
  Produced by: WHO
  This advocacy brief delivers 6 key messages for members of the states to follow in tailoring their health policies and responses to COVID-19 using a gender- sensitive approach. This approach will allow for comprehensive responses, including for SRHR that ensure equality among all members of society.
• Periods in the pandemic: 9 things we need to know
  Produced by: UNICEF and UNFPA
  This report shows 9 misconceptions that people are having regarding menstruation and COVID-19. Also, it suggests ways to maintain menstrual health during this pandemic.

• Compact for young people in Humanitarian action COVID-19: Working with and for young people
  Produced by: Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action
  This guidance note is meant to assist humanitarian actors, youth-led organizations, and young people themselves across sectors, working at local, country, regional, and global levels in their response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. (pages 13, 15 and 78)
• Six concrete measures to support women and girls in all their diversity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: UNAIDS
  This guidance document addresses the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls in all their diversity. It contains 6 key measures that address prioritization of women's and young girl’s health needs.
• COVID-19 and ensuring safe cities and safe public spaces for women and girls
  Produced by: UN Women
  This brief demonstrates the emerging trends and implications for women's and girl's safety in public spaces and cities given the rise in violence cases during COVID-19. It provides examples of measures taken by different countries in face of this rising issue. Also, it contains a set of recommendations to be followed by different stake holders in the society.
• COVID-19 Gender-based violence risks to adolescent girls and interventions to protect and empower them
  Produced by: UNICEF AND IRC
  This paper provides practical guidance on how to provide girls with targeted support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes information on GBV and SRHR.
• COVID-19: A gender Lens
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This technical brief provides guideline that policy makers can follow while preparing the response plan to COVID-19. These recommendations ensure protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights and promoting gender equality.
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) preparedness and response
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This guidance document provides intervention at different level to respond to COVID-19 in order to ensure providing of SRH services and maternal health services.
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights: modern contraceptives and other medical supply needs, including for COVID-19 prevention, protection and response
  Produced by: UNFPA
  Provision of modern short- and long-acting contraceptives, information, counselling and services (including emergency contraception) is lifesaving and should be available and accessible during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
• Interim Technical Note : Protection from sexual Exploitation and abuse(PSEA) during COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP, IOM, OCHA, CHS Alliance, Interaction and UN victims' rights advocate
  "Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) must be integrated into the response to COVID-19. As with any emergency, PSEA prevention and response should be a central part of coordinated humanitarian action. The crisis does not create new responsibilities; rather, PSEA actions during the COVID-19 pandemic should strengthen existing PSEA commitments to protect and assist people receiving humanitarian assistance."
• Technical note on COVID-19 and harmful practices
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This technical guidance document shows the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health. It offers interventions on different levels to help contain the harmful impacts and endure that the reproductive and sexual health and rights of females are maintained during this pandemic.
• Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on menstrual health and Hygiene
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This brief provides challenges faced by menstruators during the COVID-19 pandemic and it suggests measure to be considered for addressing these challenges.
• COVID-19 and violence against women
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance document provides a road map for responding to violence against women during COVID-19. It demonstrates interventions starting from the governments and policy makers level, down to reach women who are experiencing violence. Also, this document provides so tip to cope with stress during lockdowns.
• Policy Brief: The impact of COVID-19 on women
  Produced by: UN
  This policy brief focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on women. It includes the economic impacts, health impacts, unpaid care work, gender-based violence and impact in humanitarian and fragile settings on human rights. Also, it states set of recommendation for policy makers on making their national policies.
• COVID-19 and women's human rights: Guidance
  Produced by: OHCHR
  This guidance document focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Human Rights and provides guidance on some promising practices to mitigate this impact.
• Continuing essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health services during COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF
  This document has been prepared to provide generic operational guidance to countries in the regions for preparing a continuity plan for maintaining good quality and equitable sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Community- based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the contest of the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: WHO & UNICEF
  This Joint WHO, UNICEF, and IFRC guidance addresses the role of community- based health care in pandemic context. It includes practical recommendations for decision makers to help keep communities and health workers safe, to sustain essential services at the community level.
• Operational planning guidance to support country preparedness and response
  Produced by: WHO
  This document was developed by WHO to provide a practical guide that may be used by national authorities to develop and update their COVID‑19 national plans across the major pillars of COVID‑19 preparedness and response and includes information on SRHR services.
• Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context interim guidance
  Produced by: WHO
  This is a comprehensive guidance document to help governments and policy makers in maintaining essential health care services during COVID-19 pandemic.
• Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis’s Indirect Health Impacts for Women and Girls
  Produced by: Centre for Global Development

• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): HIV and antiretrovirals
  Produced by: WHO
  These Q&As address two public health concerns: HIV and COVID-19. they answer questions raised by people using antiretroviral drugs in treating HIV and COVID-19 risks. Also, they answer questions raised by health care providers.
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Contraception and family planning
  Produced by: WHO
  These Q&As addresses concerns raised by community members, policy makers and program managers about family planning and contraception use during COVID-19.
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Adolescents and youth
  Produced by: WHO
  These Q&A addresses issues raised by adolescent in the times of COVID-19. They tackle areas of adolescents' mental health, sexual reproductive health, and violence. Also, they provide information about COVID-19 transmission and progress among youth.
• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Self-care interventions for sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
  Produced by: WHO
  These Q&As answers concerns related to self-care, where they explain what self-care is, who is eligible to do and why it is important during COVID-19, as well as how self-care can be integrated in sexual reproductive health.

• Senegal: A leader in access to FP/RH care during COVID-19
  Produced by: Knowledge SUCCESS
  This contextual document talks about the response of Senegal to COVID-19 implications on sexual reproductive health and rights.
• Video: COVID-19 pandemic a how it affects access to sexual and reproductive health services
  Produced by: WeAskLucyBot
  This video is a campaign to introduce a platform called We Ask Lucy Bot, to be used by the youth of Kenya to make better informed decisions regarding their health during COVID-19.
• Dignity kits bring hygiene supplies to vulnerable communities in pandemic affected area of the Gambia
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article details UNFPA efforts in maintaining SRHR for vulnerable communities in Gambia during COVID-19.
• Staying Close while maintaining distance: peer mentoring during COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: UNICEF
  This document states a story of a community member in Mozambique mentoring young girls about their sexual reproductive health. She found ways to continue supporting these girls and at the same time prevent infection by COVID-19.
• Meeting Family planning needs in Nepal's quarantine centers
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article describes the work of UNFPA along with health authorities in Nepal to help deliver contraceptives to the community in order not to disrupt family planning programs. Also, it describes the cooperation with the authorities to loosen restrictions to facilitate access to health care facilities.
• Youth mobilize to support Egypt's front-line health workers
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article shows an initiative by Egyptian youth that helped deliver hygiene kits for female health care providers. This act aimed supporting and answer an essential need for the workforce.
• For Kyrgyzstan’s LGBTQI community, risks escalate under COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article shows the difficulties the LGBTQ community face in the Kyrgyzstan in terms of accessing health care services and violence. This situation has worsened during COVID-19
• Ride- hailing app delivers contraceptives to users' doorsteps
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article talks about a mobile app that was created in Uganda to help deliver contraceptives, pregnancy test and mother kits. The items could be ordered online through the app and a bike rider will deliver to the doorsteps with minimal charges.
• Operation SALAMA reaches millions of Moroccans with pandemic information, supplies, support
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article explains an initiative done called SALAMA in morocco that was successful in ensuring continuity of SRH services and offered help for violence survivors.
• Eswatini SMS service helps women access family planning, food amid pandemic
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This article is an example on the innovations in the service delivery models that COVID-19 forced. It shares the story of the Estefani SMS service that helped in access to family planning services and food.

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