Mexico City.-The Secretary of the Interior, through the National Population Council (Conapo) estimate that by 2020 and 2021 in number of unwanted pregnancies rise to 171 thousand in women aged 15 to 34 for situations that violate sexual and reproductive rights, such as the availability of contraceptive methods.
The Theme of World Population Day 2020 is a call to safeguard the achievements of gender equality and protection of the rights of girls and women, including reproductive ones. #DíaMundialDeLaPoblación pic.twitter.com/HgmBOXlkZP — CONAPO – National Population Council (@CONAPO_mx)
July 12, 2020
According to the Conapo and UNFPA, during the health emergency by COVID-19 women and girls face various situations that violate their sexual and reproductive rights such as access to the availability of contraception and health services for this purpose, increasing exposure to unplanned pregnancies or at risk
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They also point out that the esenary in young people aged 15 to 19 can increase to 30 per cent donse is estimated to stop going to sexual and reproductive health services, for fear of getting Covid-19, causing unmet contraception (NIA) needs to increase in 2020 and 2021, where there are 222 thousand 924 additional adolescents with NIA and thus also increase in 35,813 unwanted pregnancies in relation to tenure without the health emergency.
In this, the conapo calls for the importance of guaranteeing the sexual and reproductive rights of women and children in the context of the Pandemic for Covid-19, as it is a time when their rights have been violated. You may also be interested: Hugo Lopez-Gatell will be reported to the UN for mishandling of the T-MEC pandemic, the main reason for AMLO’s visit to Donald Trump in the US
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