310 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Family Planning
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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At the onset of the pandemic, the world's family planning community worried about the impact COVID-19 would have on access to contraception and unintended pregnancies in lower- and middle-income countries. Dr. Phil Anglewicz and Dr. Caroline Moreau of Performance Monitoring for Action talk with Stephanie Desmon about what some initial research says about impacts on contraceptive use and access, what is still unknown, and what the concerns are—especially for young girls facing economic hardship and food instability during the pandemic.
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| 0:51.2 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Phil Englevich and Caroline Moreau of Johns Hopkins |
| 0:56.1 | about the impact that the pandemic has had on access to contraception and unintended pregnancies |
| 1:02.4 | due to COVID-related disruptions in health care. Let's listen. Phil Englevich and Caroline Moreau, |
| 1:08.5 | thank you so much for joining me. Thanks very much for having us. |
| 1:12.6 | delighted to be here. |
| 1:14.4 | So today I wanted to talk to you about the impact that COVID has had on family planning. |
| 1:20.3 | I know that you all have done research in low and middle income countries, sub-Saharan Africa, |
| 1:27.2 | and I know there were a lot |
| 1:28.3 | of concerns about what the disruptions of the pandemic would mean for family planning. So, Phil, |
| 1:35.4 | I'm wondering if you could talk to me first about sort of the situation on the ground in terms |
| 1:38.8 | of family planning in these countries. Sure. Thanks for the question. So PMA as a project, we work in countries mostly in sub-saren |
| 1:48.4 | Africa, but also in, we work in India. And in the countries where we work, the family |
| 1:53.8 | planning situation really varies dramatically. So we work in some countries like Kenya that has |
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