Not a luxury: a call to maintain sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian and fragile settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: nguyentoan.tran@uts.edu.au.
² Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ International Rescue Committee, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Women's Refugee Commission, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, New York, NY, USA.

Nguyen Toan Tran et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;8(6):e760-e761.

doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30190-X. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

¹ Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: nguyentoan.tran@uts.edu.au.
² Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ International Rescue Committee, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Women's Refugee Commission, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, New York, NY, USA.

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