A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks

The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in 2021 exemplify how sexual and reproductive health services are too often considered unessential during health emergencies. Bleeding for reasons other than EVD, such as pregnancy complications or rape, can be construed as EVD symptoms, reinforcing fea...

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Autores principales: Tran, Nguyen Toan, Lichtenstein, Désirée, Black, Benjamin, Rosmini, Alice, Schulte-Hillen, Catrin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8272300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34246308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00392-3
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author Tran, Nguyen Toan
Lichtenstein, Désirée
Black, Benjamin
Rosmini, Alice
Schulte-Hillen, Catrin
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description The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in 2021 exemplify how sexual and reproductive health services are too often considered unessential during health emergencies. Bleeding for reasons other than EVD, such as pregnancy complications or rape, can be construed as EVD symptoms, reinforcing fear and stigmatisation, and delaying timely access to adequate care. In this commentary, we urgently call on all humanitarian actors to integrate the Minimum Initial Services Package for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations into current and future EVD preparedness and response efforts.
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spelling pubmed-82723002021-07-12 A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks Tran, Nguyen Toan Lichtenstein, Désirée Black, Benjamin Rosmini, Alice Schulte-Hillen, Catrin Confl Health Commentary The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in 2021 exemplify how sexual and reproductive health services are too often considered unessential during health emergencies. Bleeding for reasons other than EVD, such as pregnancy complications or rape, can be construed as EVD symptoms, reinforcing fear and stigmatisation, and delaying timely access to adequate care. In this commentary, we urgently call on all humanitarian actors to integrate the Minimum Initial Services Package for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations into current and future EVD preparedness and response efforts. BioMed Central 2021-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8272300/ /pubmed/34246308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00392-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Tran, Nguyen Toan
Lichtenstein, Désirée
Black, Benjamin
Rosmini, Alice
Schulte-Hillen, Catrin
A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks
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title_full A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks
title_fullStr A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks
title_full_unstemmed A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks
title_short A call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during Ebola outbreaks
title_sort call to safeguard sexual and reproductive health information and services during ebola outbreaks
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8272300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34246308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00392-3
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