COVID

Preventing post-partum haemorrhage at home during COVID-19: what are we waiting for?

Karen Hobday
Ndola Prata
Jennifer Hulme
Caroline SE Homer
2021

Disruptions in health service delivery due to the COVID-19 pandemic have had a devastating effect on maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) with rises in maternal and neonatal deaths expected.1 Post-partum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in low-income countries and is likely to increase because of estimates of, at best, a 10% reduction in MNCH services....

Toward Integration of Life Course Intervention and Youth Participatory Action Research

Emily J Ozer
Linda Sprague Martinez
Michelle Abraczinskas
Brian Villa
Ndola Prata
2021

We provide an overview of diverse forms of youth participation, with a focus on youth participatory action research (YPAR) and its synergies with life course intervention research to promote healthier development for young people and across the life span. We analyze why YPAR matters for research, practice, and policies related to the systems and settings in which young people develop. We also illustrate how young people perform YPAR work to improve the developmental responsiveness and equity of school and health systems, including descriptions of an innovative youth-led health center...

Women's Experiences With Family Planning Under COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional, Interactive Voice Response Survey in Malawi, Nepal, Niger, and Uganda.

Aurélie Brunie
Gwyneth Austin
Jamie Arkin
Samantha Archie
Dinah Amongin
Rawlance Ndejjo
Saujanya Acharya
Basant Thapa
Sarah Brittingham
Grace McLain
Philip Mkandawire
Maimouna Hallidou Doudou
Ndola Prata
2022

Introduction: We conducted an assessment in Malawi, Nepal, Niger, and Uganda to document access-related reasons for not using contraceptive methods during the COVID-19 pandemic that led to unintended pregnancies, describe use of modern contraception among women in potential need of contraception compared to before the pandemic, examine method choice, and describe barriers to contraceptive access and use.

Methods: Between December 2020 and May 2021, we conducted an opt-in phone survey with 21,692 women, followed by an outbound survey with 5,124 women...

Are There Differences between the Stress Responses of Philippine Men and Women to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Divya Periyakoil
Preethi Periyakoil
Cherica A Tee
Costas J Spanos
Marie Diener-West
Michael Tee
Ndola Prata
2023

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a deleterious impact on human health since its beginning in 2019. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and determine if there were differential impacts on women compared to men. A web-based survey was conducted in the Luzon Islands of the Philippines, during the pandemic quarantine. A total of 1879 participants completed online surveys between 28 March–12 April 2020. A bivariate analysis of both men and women for each psychological measure (stress, anxiety, depression, and impact...

“Africans, we know how to adapt indeed”: Adaptations to family planning and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic

Evens E
Ambrose A
Bello B
Murray K
Tefouet N
Fatusi A
Nwagbara B
Riungu M
Maji T
Khamofu H
Fotso JC
Prata N
2024

On March 30, 2020, the Government of Nigeria implemented its first COVID-19 related lockdown. We worked with two humanitarian projects in Nigeria, the Integrated Humanitarian Assistance to Northeast Nigeria (IHANN II) in Borno State and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees South-South Health and Nutrition Intervention (UNHCR-SS-HNIR) for Cameroon Refugees and vulnerable populations in Cross River State, to document the programmatic adaptations to Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH) services in response to COVID-19 and identify successes and challenges of those...