Countries maternal deaths search. Welcome to our coven 1900. 86 for joining Us South Africa is gradually easing its lock down which was widely considered one of the worlds most severe limits on contact and outdoor exercise kept more families inside and resulted in a surge of violence at home. Life is returning to the streets of cape town but the sale of alcohol and tobacco are still bare and tensions are rising. This is a Selfhelp Group for women whove faced violence under lockdown they meet in Caroline Peters backyard. She was the victim of a gang rape when she was young now she helps other women who are abused by men. Who is the county police because you miss the member may not last but they could be nothing i mean the home they are going to take you to be one is did you take him to be silent and able to move on to means that the balance has moved back into backgrounds rates of gender based violence against women in south africa are among the highest in the world and its only worsened since the start of the lockdown according to these women they agreed to let us film in the hope it would encourage other women to speak out. Kims life has been marked by alcohol drugs and physical violence she also says its become worse on the lock down. Everything you said ive been through it to you. I have to tell you something important so i want to stand up. If this is ive made a decision that i havent told anyone yet enough is enough i cant live like this my boyfriend hits me in front of my son. I cannot love this man im going to take my bag and leave yet. Now is the time for action kims already packed a bag but they have to go and get his 6 year old son. Its a dangerous situation jims partner doesnt know whats about to happen she stopped taking crystal meth a week ago and is leaving after 18 drug filled years together hes stunned but doesnt get violent. Kim has taken an important step. She reassures her son telling him shell keep him safe. Where theyre going nobodys going to hate anybody and. People there will be kind and shes going to be a better mother. Kim and her son can stay at a shelter for 3 months but their problems are still waiting for them on the outside. And im joined now by kelly opium and jiro who leads a u. N. Effort to curb violence against women and Elizabeth Ali shes an expert in Reproductive Health at the good Market Institute welcome to you both. Lets start with you we just looked at south africa but this uptick in Domestic Violence is a global problem and whats driving it. Thank you 1st. These a global phenomenon we know that one city women face globally physical or Sexual Violence and in the majority they face these findings may need them an act of violence but what they really want to emphasize here to not just the mystic brightmans they meet the movement in the movements they have clearly indicate that. Against women and go to pervasive form of relation that happens everywhere at home at work at school when women get the are on their way to school and to work and will drive its much deeper and it doesnt have to do with some. Bad actors and act it doesnt have to do with some god the acts but the cash to do with power and control and how abusers succeed and control all the partners and women and get out in their lifes challenges facing families go beyond Domestic Violence and into womens Reproductive Health care the good luck institute says a 10 percent drop in Reproductive Health care and low and middle come countries due to the coronavirus were put modern contraception out of reach for a projected 50000000. 00 more women unintended pregnancies would shoot up same for newborns us and thousands more women would die during pregnancy there are also be 3000000. 00 more unsafe abortions elizabeth want to turn to you here those are bracing numbers what do they look like for women and families. Youre right they are shocking numbers and this is just with a 10 percent decline we dont know if thats what were going to see or not thats potentially a pretty conservative estimate of how services are going to be distracted because what we see here is that policies lack of access and redirecting resources that are all going to threaten womens ability to access these services and its not its not going to play out equally in all countries and all women countries that are to have Strained Health care systems are going to suffer the worst consequences and people who are marginalized and awful who are he had trouble accessing the service is those barriers are going to be further exacerbated during the 1000. 00 hand and this is really playing out in a context. That you mentioned redirected resources is that what it takes to get things back on track here is basically redirecting those resources back to their original purpose here was there something more that needs to be done at a time of these lockdowns. There is a lot more that can be done i think there are 5 key actions that can be taken that are not just about resources its about how were using those resources the 1st is we need governments just a clarion make it clear that sexual and Reproductive Health care is an essential service that women can access this care during lockdowns without fear of legal consequences for traveling for care we also need to protect and should we need to protect and strengthen the supply chains theres concern for the global disruptions and supply chains and so we need to focus on how those are working at the national and regional level to make sure that sexual and Reproductive Health pharmaceuticals are making next for writers and patients we also need to we need to dispense our pharmaceuticals different so we need to allow women to access contraception without a prescription we need to decentralise the distribution of those commodities and we also need to consider multipath just senses a contraception so we need to change how were providing those services to begin that we can also think about models of care that tell him you have a really important time as an option so theres safety and think differently about how were providing our care and then i think the 5th and really important point is we need to focus on the unique needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations that we need to make sure that they are not being forgotten when we are trying to ensure that its actually part of health care is being protected and its not an. Briefly one in with you do you get the sense that societies are taking action to do more against Domestic Violence at this time briefly if you could. Need to do much more especially when we know that Service Providers right now they face immense challenges and if we consider that. The basic Service Providers are winch organizations that big have been struggling with financial state even before called we can one thing what they face right now is even to for them to close down themselves and we dont know in one year or in the longet which women charge then they say shouldnt be that in place to provide services for survivors so we need to provide support to the womens organizations to continue providing these services but also what we need in the long term. And increase. By did i look to programs that respond to violence against women and go in the long term all right we have to leave it there. With the u. N. And elizabeth solely with the good luck institute thank you both very much. 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