Telehealth for Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: A Hybrid Telemedicine-Community Accompaniment Model for Abortion and Contraception Services in Pakistan.
COVID-19
Pakistan
abortion services
contraception
digital health
sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
telehealth
telemedicine
Journal
Frontiers in global women's health
ISSN: 2673-5059
Titre abrégé: Front Glob Womens Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101776281
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
05
05
2021
accepted:
24
06
2021
entrez:
24
11
2021
pubmed:
25
11
2021
medline:
25
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic led overburdened health care systems to deprioritize essential sexual and reproductive healthcare, including abortion and contraception care, while accelerating shifts in healthcare delivery to digital technologies. However, in many countries, including Pakistan, inequalities in access to digital technologies remain, presenting an opportunity for interventions that both increase access to deprioritized sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services and overcome the digital divide in delivering digital solutions to those in need of SRHR services. In June 2020, Ipas Pakistan partnered with Sehat Kahani (SK), a local health care NGO and telehealth service, and an existing network of Lady Health Workers (LHWs) to launch a novel hybrid telemedicine-community accompaniment pilot. The model linked women
Identifiants
pubmed: 34816237
doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2021.705262
pmc: PMC8593931
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
705262Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Shaikh, Küng, Aziz, Sabir, Shabbir, Ahmed and Dabash.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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