COVID-19 and Reproductive Health Supplies
How is COVID-19 impacting RH supply chains?
As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, access to reproductive health supplies is taking a hard hit around the world. However, the RH community is demonstrating its determination, resilience and creativity as it adapts to this evolving landscape. The RHSC, in its role of community convener, has put together this repository as a collection of supply-specific resources to help those working in providing women and girls in low- and middle-income countries with contraceptives and other RH supplies.
Latest news
- COVID-19 is having a “profound” impact on health services for women and girls (Equal Times)
- COVID-19: What will the world look like nine months on? (Knowledge Success)
- Women, babies at risk as COVID-19 disrupts health services, World Bank warns (Reuters)
- The Sexual-Health Supply Chain Is Broken (The Atlantic)
Read more news
- Are We Really Going To Run Out Of Condoms? (Forbes)
- Coronavirus crisis may deny 9.5 million women access to family planning (The Guardian)
- COVID-19: UNFPA supply chain disruption
- Condom shortage looms after coronavirus lockdown shuts world's top producer
- COVID-19 pandemic cuts access to sexual and reproductive healthcare for women around the world
- Opinion: How will COVID-19 affect global access to contraceptives — and what can we do about it? - Devex
- Trump administration in talks with India to avoid U.S. drug supply shortage
- COVID-19 Global Port Restrictions Map – Wilhelmsen
- Global Logistics Updates and related links
- COVID-19 Impact on Supply Chain Logistics: Assessment and Recommendations – OCHA
- How are pharma supply chains reacting to COVID-19? Without info, it's hard to tell: analyst
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during the COVID-19 pandemic; A joint report by EPF & IPPF EN
- Estimates of the Potential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Guttmacher
- COVID-19 disruptions on health supply chains a challenge for aid orgs
- The COVID pandemic increases the chance that your other medicines won’t work.
- Trump administration in talks with India to avoid U.S. drug supply shortage
What is the Coalition doing?
In this uncertain time, the Coalition is working closely with partners to develop a broad range of actions. Through our tools, we have identified ways our community can mitigate the risks caused by COVID-19; our think pieces and statements are providing guidance for partner action; and lastly, as a convener, we are keeping members up to date by curating news and resources.
Tools for mitigation
- MICRO - Models impact on supplies of COVID-19 mitigation strategies
- D-RISC – Triangulates multiple data sources to assess risk of shipment disruptions
- Commodity Gap Analysis 2019 – Assists local decision making though provision of country-level consumption data
- The Global FP VAN - Provides visibility into status of supply orders to support decision-making
Thought Leadership
- GHSP Journal: Doing Things Differently: What It Would Take to Ensure Continued Access to Contraception During COVID-19
- Blog: Protecting contraceptive access amidst COVID-19
- Blog: Shaping our community’s response to a global supply crisis
- Joint Statement: The Importance of Continued Family Planning Data Sharing and Collaboration (English / French)
- Blog: A “reality check” on anticipated disruptions to supplies and services resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Statement: Reproductive health supplies are essential
Community Convener
Please watch this page check in here for the latest developments and responses of our members to the current pandemic. Subscribe to our SupplyInsider newsletter which offers a monthly summary. Subscribers automatically receive news in our e-blasts to keep you in the loop.
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How is the RH supply community responding?
Contraception
- Building community and health system resilience during COVID-19 pandemic through Rwenzori interfaith and media COVID-19 + SRHR task force (FBO Network)
- Q&A: Contraception/Family planning and COVID-19 (WHO)
- COVID-19 Resources and Information for SRH Professionals (FSRH)
- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Preparedness and Response UNFPA Interim Technical Brief
- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic UNFPA Global Response Plan
- Condoms and lubricants in the time of COVID-19 UNAIDS
- Contraception during a crisis: The potential of self-injection (PATH)
- France to deliver contraceptives to homes without prescription
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Modern Contraceptives and Other Medical Supply Needs, Including for COVID-19 Prevention, Protection and Response (UNFPA)
- UNFPA advocates for women, girls suffering unseen impacts of COVID-19 pandemic
Menstrual Health
Calls to Action and Statements
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(2.88 MB)A Civil Society Call to Action (PAI)
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(137 kB)IMAP statement on COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
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(248 kB)The joint statement on the importance of continued family planning data sharing and collaboration
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(661 kB)Access to contraception is critical in Covid-19 response
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