Preserving women’s bodily autonomy
Jul 05,2021 - Last updated at Jul 05,2021
NEW YORK By the age of 24, Maya Bohara had borne four children, and she and her husband decided that their family was large enough. For nine years thereafter, despite living in a poor region of Nepal, she could rely on a local health clinic for injectable contraceptives.
But then came COVID-19, which disrupted medical supply chains and health budgets around the world. By June 2020, Maya’s clinic was out of the contraceptive she had been using; and by February 2021, her fifth child was born. Although the Boharas’ new baby is deeply loved, a vulnerable family has now been put in an even more precarious position.
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Fearing COVID, Some Malawian Women Skip Prenatal Medical Care
July 04, 2021
Lucy Mbewe, a traditional birth attendant attends to a pregnant woman at her home, in Simika Village, Chiradzulu, southern Malawi on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
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The medical services for pregnant women at the health
clinic closest to Monica Maxwell’s home in Malawi were free. The cost to get there, however, was more than Maxwell could pay for.
Because of the pandemic, she was earning less money than usual selling tomatoes at a local market. Her husband’s earnings had also dropped.
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Eleonor Faur holds a PhD in Social Sciences, is a consultant for various agencies of international organisations and has been in charge of the Argentinean office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA). (Paula Blaconá)
Eleonor Faur, a specialist in the study of the care industry through a gender lens, believes the world s economic systems need to be revamped entirely to ensure that care responsibilities are distributed in a more balanced way.
She came to this conclusion after an intensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and community-oriented organizations led by women in popular sectors.
“The pandemic was not the root cause of the problem, but it has exacerbated it and made it visible.” This mantra has been repeated for months in many countries with regard to most social issues.