Linnea Zimmerman

TL;DR: Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) was created to provide rapid and frequent estimates of modern contraceptive use in FP2020 priority countries to monitor country progress and change course in the event of stagnating or declining use.

TL;DR: The results suggest that service quality in public facilities may be less relevant to contraceptive use in environments where the universe and reach of providers changes actively, and programs promoting contraception need to consider quality within facility types and their service environments.

TL;DR: The findings do not support the anticipated deleterious effect of COVID-19 on access to and use of contraceptive services by women in the earliest stages of the pandemic, and overall trends mask several distinct patterns by sociodemographic group.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used longitudinal data collected from women at risk of unintended pregnancy in Burkina Faso and Kenya before (November 2019-February 2020) and during (May-July 2020) COVID-19 to quantify contraceptive dynamics during COVID, and assess COVID19-related reasons for contraceptive non-use.

TL;DR: Empirical analysis suggests that mortality risks nowadays in the age range 5-14 years in low-income and middle-income countries are rather higher (relative to mortality in children younger than 5 years) than would be expected on the basis of historical evidence.