March 20, 2020

COVID-19: What implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally?

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

• The author discusses how SARS and MERS affected sexual and reproductive health and rights in different parts of the world, and argues the role principles of human rights should play in ensuring availability, accessibility and quality of medical services. Pregnant women with COVID-19 respiratory illness should be treated with priority because of the risk of complications.

Hussein (March 19, 2020). COVID-19: What implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally? Journ of Sexual and Repro Health Matters.  https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2020.1746065