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First Look: The Impact of COVID-19 on Family Planning
March 1, 2021
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First Look: The Impact of COVID-19 on Family Planning
By Jason Bremner
As the pandemic continues into its second year, the full impact on family planning and women and girls access to services still isn’t known, and won’t be for some time. Still, to begin to understand the pandemic’s effects, FP2020 began convening family planning data partners in April 2020 to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic was affecting programs and services. This work has focused on four areas:
While the estimates of family planning progress and data in this year’s progress report do not yet reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have gathered preliminary insights from partners and countries in the report. In addition, we highlight partners’ work to collect data in new and innovative ways.
The progress report features a summary from the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition on supply chain impacts and the MICRO tool for modelling the effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts on supplies, reports from MSI and IPPF on the impact of COVID-19 on their services, a Track20 assessment of public sector service statistics data and the impact of COVID-19 on different contraceptive methods, and lastly, findings from PMA and Nivi data collection. More detail about these findings can be found in the COVID-19 section of the Progress Report.
While the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will not be known for years, the early findings in the Progress Report illustrate what we can glean from commodity tracking, service statistics, partner reports, and the data available from PMA surveys and Nivi. From this early assessment, it appears:
The next few years will be challenging for family planning data partners as we seek to adapt our systems and methodologies to a world shaped by COVID. FP2030 is committed to working with our partners to illuminate the impact of the pandemic on family planning in countries across the globe.