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LAC Forum tool provides metrics for pandemic impact report
6th August 2020A recent joint report of UNFPA and the LAC Forum on the Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Contraceptives in the LAC Region forecasts a decline of between 900,000 and 2.6 M CYP between 2019 and 2020, with nearly 75% of the drop...
Category: COVID-19
Country briefs model method shifts during COVID-19
5th August 2020In May, the Coalition, in partnership with Avenir Health and the Global Financing Facility, unveiled MICRO Modeling to help healthcare planners estimate changing contraceptive needs in response to COVID-19. Now, one- and two-page...
Category: COVID-19
LAC Forum sidesteps pandemic, completes successful Encuentros
3rd August 2020Unfazed by the blows COVID-19 is dealing global event planning, the LAC Forum has successfully completed 12 of 13 virtual Encuentros for health ministry officials and UNPFA staff from nine countries. Participants from Bolivia,...
RHSC and JSI launch new effort to build roadmap for action
28th July 2020Supply chain resilience and survival are at the heart of many ongoing debates within the SRH supplies community. Will the new normal ever be like the old? Should we shore up the global systems that have served us well? Or do we...
Category: COVID-19
Menstrual Health workstream welcomes new co-leader
23rd July 2020Tanya Mahajan from Development Solutions Inc., and also the co-founder of the Menstrual Health Alliance India, joins Nancy Muller in leading the Menstrual Health workstream of the NURHT Caucus. We welcome her on board and thank...
Category: New/Underused RH Technologies Caucus