Reproductive health during COVID-19 pandemic

K. R. Athira; Renu Shahrawat

doi:10.25259/JRHM_2_2021

View/Download PDF

Invited Article

2021

:2;

doi:

10.25259/JRHM_2_2021

Buy Reprints

PDF

Reproductive health during COVID-19 pandemic

K. R. Athira¹, Renu Shahrawat²

1Community Health Administration Resident, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

2Department of Reproductive Biomedicine, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

*Corresponding author: K. R. Athira, Community Health Administration Resident, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India. athira@nihfw.org

Received: 2021-01-05, Accepted: 2021-02-25, Published: 2021-03-22

Licence

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

How to cite this article: Athira KR, Shahrawat R. Reproductive health during COVID-19 pandemic. J Reprod Healthc and Med 2021;2:14.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been challenging the health systems for almost a year now; still health systems around the world especially in countries like India are struggling to provide essential health services along with the measures to control the pandemic. The evidence suggests that pandemic and measures to control it have the capacity to increase the maternal morbidity, directly by coronavirus infection and indirectly due to lack of timely access to the healthcare. The burden on health system is further increased by the expected baby boom due to lack of timely access to family planning and safe abortion services. Moreover, the evidence suggests that COVID-19 pandemic has an effect on male and female reproductive tissues.