The current coronavirus pandemic constitutes the greatest health crisis experienced by humanity in a century and is presenting not only health but also socioeconomic challenges of great magnitude and whose true effects are still unknown.
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To prevent the spread of the virus, most of the countries of the world have imposed quarantines, more or less strict, and while the contagion curve in Europe and the United States begins to stabilize, plans to reactivate the economies are beginning to come true, without being able to predict the impact of the reopening on the number of infections, which could lead to new closings.
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Although the fact that this virus does not understand social class, ethnicity or religion has become a maxim, women – who represent half of the world’s population – are still more vulnerable to this rights pandemic, and they even face a setback in terms of some achievements.
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In less developed countries, especially in Africa and Asia, these quarantines have a serious impact on reproductive and social rights and on the safety of women, as the pandemic is disrupting the network of contraceptive supplies and sexual and reproductive health services , in addition to aggravating existing gender inequalities.
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A report of the United Nations Fund for Populations (UNFPA, in conjunction with Avenir Health and Johns Hopkins Universities (United States) and Victoria (Australia), estimates that as a result of this pandemic, if confinement lasts for six months, with serious interruptions in the supply of contraceptives, about seven million unplanned pregnancies would be recorded.
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According to the UNFPA report, this pandemic of SARS-VOC-2 can have an impact on family planning and the elimination of gender violence, female genital mutilation or child marriage, destroying much of the progress that have been achieved in recent years:
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