RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Opportunities and Challenges of Delivering Postabortion Care and Postpartum Family Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
JF Global Health: Science and Practice
JO GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT
FD Johns Hopkins University- Global Health. Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs
SP 335
OP 343
DO 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00263
VO 8
IS 3
A1 Pfitzer, Anne
A1 Lathrop, Eva
A1 Bodenheimer, Alison
A1 RamaRao, Saumya
A1 Christofield, Megan
A1 MacDonald, Patricia
A1 Arnold, Bethany
A1 Bhatnagar, Neeta
A1 Mielke, Erin
A1 Mikulich, Meridith
YR 2020
UL http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/3/335.abstract
AB Key MessagesWe seek to assist decision makers in maximizing provision of essential services without compromising access to quality family planning care and while minimizing the risk of COVID-19 transmission among clients, and between clients and health care workers.Managers should help facility teams to integrate counseling and provide a range of contraceptive methods as is feasible within existing contacts with pregnant, postabortion, birthing, and postpartum women, even as services migrate to new models with a mixture of in-person and virtual/tele-health consultations.Policy makers should prioritize devoting resources to meet the family planning needs of pregnant, postabortion, birthing, and postpartum women, and the health care workers serving them as an investment against higher health systems burdens in later months and during subsequent waves of the pandemic.Le tableau et encadre de dialogue de l’article est aussi disponible en français.