Zika Virus and Global Implications for Reproductive Health Reforms

Health sector reforms: implications for sexual and reproductive health services.

These reforms have also been affected by changes in national and international allocation of resources to the health sector, the attribution of responsibility for health, and the increasing commodification of health in almost all countries [2]. Policy changes, some progressive, others retrogressive, wide-ranging biomedical and social research, and efforts to improve sexual and reproductive heal...

Zika virus and global health security.

Zika Virus: An Emerging Global Health Threat

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging healthcare threat. The presence of the mosquito Aedes species across South and Central America in combination with complementary climates have incited an epidemic of locally transmitted cases of ZIKV infection in Brazil. As one of the most significant current public health concerns in the Americas, ZIKV epidemic has been a cause of alarm due to its known and unk...

Zika virus outbreak: reproductive health and rights in Latin America.

In mid-January, 2016, health ministers from diff erent Latin American countries made public recommendations to women and couples to postpone pregnancy for 6 months to 2 years in the face of the Zika virus outbreak. These recommendations seemed out of place in view of the fact that 56% of pregnancies in the region are unintended. Poor quality of sex education, poor access to contraception, high ...

Priority setting in the context of health sector reforms: Implications for sexual and reproductive health services

This has implications for the autonomy of these governments to make independent policy decisions. Taking advantage of the financial crisis faced by poor debtor countries, the World Bank and other international funders use the need for loans to impose conditionalities, including the adoption of various health sector reforms, even when these are not the best options for the particular country con...