Madagascar

Restricted access to quality healthcare during COVID-19 threatened reproductive autonomy. Health facility closures and restrictions on movement threatened to limit the ability of women and girls to avoid unwanted pregnancies, switch their contraceptive methods, stop using contraception to become pregnant, and receive critical and timely reproductive healthcare. Projections from early in the pandemic estimated an additional 15 million unintended pregnancies worldwide due to reduced access to and use of reproductive health services.