Integrated postnatal care during COVID-19

• Maternal and newborn health and COVID-19
  Produced by: UNICEF
  Investments in health systems are essential to enable countries to ensure the continuity of critical maternal and newborn health services and supplies and to both adequately respond to the pandemic.
• Coronavirus and pregnancy – preserving maternal health across the European Region
  Produced by: WHO Europe
  As the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted access to and use of essential maternal and newborn health services, maintaining the provision of these services in a safe manner is essential to preserve the well-being of women.
• Ensuring continuity in the provision of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health services for the population in the context of COVID-19
  Produced by: Every women every child
  This document provides key strategic areas to support the continuity in the provision of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women
  Produced by: UN
  The UN highlights the main impacts of Covid-19 on women's livelihoods in terms of economic, health and gender-based violence and provides national response strategies on mitigating those consequences.(pages: 10- 12)

• Clinical management of COVID-19
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance document provides recommendations and remarks on providing postnatal care to women. (p. 39-41)
• COVID-19 Technical Brief for Maternity Services
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This document provides practical recommendations for antenatal care, intrapartum and postnatal care in order to reduce the risk of infection from the mother/newborn to the maternity care provider and from the maternity care provider to mother/newborn in the immediate clinical care situation.
• COVID-19 Technical Brief for Postnatal Care Services
  Produced by: UNFPA, Burnet Institute
  This document provides guidance on continuing services to provide essential and respectful post-natal care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context
  Produced by: WHO
  This guidance document supports country to maintain access to safe and high-quality postnatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Continuing essential Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health services during COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA
  This document provides guidance to countries for continuing good quality and equitable sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health including postnatal care services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Continuing essential Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health services during COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA
  The document provides guidelines for countries to sustain quality sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) services in the context of COVID-19 response. (all document)
• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Preparedness and Response: UNFPA Interim Technical Brief
  Produced by: UNFPA
  This document provide guidance to maintain antenatal and postnatal care for all women during COVID-19.
• Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
  Produced by: WHO, UNICEF, IFRC
  This guidance document addresses the role of community-based health care in the context of COVID-19 pandemic to maintain continuity of essential services including postnatal care.
• Addressing the Specific Needs of Women Who Use Drugs - Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and C and Syphilis
  This technical brief provides guidance on the delivery of services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, hepatitis B and C and syphilis in women who use drugs based on the latest evidences and using a human rights approach. It also provides policy recommendations for country officials to facilitate the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT). Page 7 is specific to pregnancy and breastfeeding
  Produced by UNODC, UNFPA, INPUD, UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO
• COVID-19 Vaccines: safety surveillance manual. Module on safety surveillance of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant and breastfeeding women
  This document provides an overview of the considerations to keep in mind when monitoring the safety of vaccinating pregnant and breastfeeding women with COVID-19 vaccines and surveilling the potential adverse events following immunization (AEFIs).
  Produced by WHO

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Pregnancy and childbirth
  Produced by: WHO
  This Q&As addresses questions about pregnancy and childbirth during COVID-19.
• COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions
  Produced by: UNFPA
  These FAQs addresses key questions about caring for pregnant women and mothers during COVID-19
• Navigating pregnancy during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
  Produced by: UNICEF
  UNICEF addresses the frequently asked questions of mothers and pregnant women on safe childcare during covid-19.

• Monitoring continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Produced by: Global financing facility (supported by the World Bank Group)
  This document assesses disruptions to service provision including postnatal consultations.
• El Salvador begins telemedicine for pregnant women, new mothers and other priority groups
  Produced by: UNFPA
  El Salvador government launched a medical telecare service to provide services to pregnant and post-partum women, children under the age of five, and people requiring mental health care.
• Pulse survey on continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic: interim report
  Produced by: WHO
  This survey aims to gain initial insight into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential health services across the life course. The survey results can improve the understanding of the extent of disruptions across all services, the reasons for disruptions, and the mitigation strategies countries are using to maintain service delivery.

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