TY - JOUR
T1 - Health systems recovery from COVID-19
T2 - a window of opportunity for (in)fertility care
AU - Affun-Adegbulu, Clara
AU - Sarkar, Nandini D.P.
AU - Omolade Abejirinde, Ibukun-Oluwa
AU - Van Belle, Sara
AU - Adegbulu, Opemiposi
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - From the onset, medical and human rights experts and organisations warned of the immediate and potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Yet most gave little or no attention to fertilityrelated health care,1 despite it affecting up to 180 million couples worldwide.2 Even before the pandemic, infertility was already one of the most understudied and underfunded aspects of SRHR.
AB - From the onset, medical and human rights experts and organisations warned of the immediate and potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Yet most gave little or no attention to fertilityrelated health care,1 despite it affecting up to 180 million couples worldwide.2 Even before the pandemic, infertility was already one of the most understudied and underfunded aspects of SRHR.
KW - sexual and reproductive health
KW - Fertility services
KW - human rights
KW - COVID-19
KW - Reproductive health
KW - Reproductive rights
KW - Access to health care
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088039868&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/26410397.2020.1790090
DO - 10.1080/26410397.2020.1790090
M3 - Comment/debate
VL - 28
JO - Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
JF - Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
SN - 0968-8080
IS - 1
M1 - 1790090
ER -