The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence

The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic heightened restrictions on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), especially concerning safe abortion access. The African region has been particularly susceptible to the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reprod...

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Autores principales: Tiew, Amanda, Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía, Jastaniah, Ibtehal, Jayaweera, Ruvani T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Global Women's Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9563014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36247111
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.958710
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author Tiew, Amanda
Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía
Jastaniah, Ibtehal
Jayaweera, Ruvani T.
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description The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic heightened restrictions on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), especially concerning safe abortion access. The African region has been particularly susceptible to the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health services. Using a framework of reproductive justice, we interviewed key informants from the Mobilizing Action around Medication Abortion (MAMA) Network regarding the impacts of structural violence and COVID-19 on SRHR programming in Africa, particularly programming on self-managed abortion. We identified themes of lacking infrastructures of support, emergent marginality, and neocolonial funding environments as facets of structural violence within the context of the MAMA Network, as heightened by the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-95630142022-10-15 The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence Tiew, Amanda Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía Jastaniah, Ibtehal Jayaweera, Ruvani T. Front Glob Womens Health Global Women's Health The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic heightened restrictions on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), especially concerning safe abortion access. The African region has been particularly susceptible to the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive health services. Using a framework of reproductive justice, we interviewed key informants from the Mobilizing Action around Medication Abortion (MAMA) Network regarding the impacts of structural violence and COVID-19 on SRHR programming in Africa, particularly programming on self-managed abortion. We identified themes of lacking infrastructures of support, emergent marginality, and neocolonial funding environments as facets of structural violence within the context of the MAMA Network, as heightened by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9563014/ /pubmed/36247111 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.958710 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tiew, Berro Pizzarossa, Jastaniah and Jayaweera. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Tiew, Amanda
Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía
Jastaniah, Ibtehal
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title The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence
title_full The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence
title_fullStr The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence
title_full_unstemmed The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence
title_short The impact of COVID-19 on safe abortion access in Africa: An analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence
title_sort impact of covid-19 on safe abortion access in africa: an analysis through a framework of reproductive justice and lens of structural violence
topic Global Women's Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9563014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36247111
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.958710
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