With the current global situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Safe Abortion Advocacy Initiative- A Global South Engagement (SAIGE) and its partners are concerned of its impact on access to safe abortion for women and girls globally and especially in the Global South region. Time-sensitive response is important and we are deeply concerned that additionally-created waiting time and economic hurdles, such as travel ban and shutdown of non-essential jobs and businesses, will disproportionately impact vulnerable women and girls and therefore request the governments to urgently take cognisance and create strategies to mitigate the impact. 

Read more... https://arrow.org.my/statement-on-greater-need-for-safe-abortion-services-as-an-impact-of-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/