The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has called for the immediate prioritisation of the needs of women and their participation in the Ebola response.
The call was owing to the way women are allegedly being disproportionately affected by the escalating Ebola crisis in some countries.
The Executive Director of UNFPA, Babatunde Osotimehin, made the call in a statement, a copy of which was made available to Daily Independent in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him: “It is estimated that more than 600,000 women in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will give birth during the next 12 months. In addition, more than one million women, who were using modern contraception, can no longer receive these services.
“As the world ramps up its response to the escalating Ebola crisis, women are being disproportionately affected, and their needs and participation should be prioritised in the response.
“Because women are caring for, feeding and bathing loved ones who are infected, working as front-line health workers, preparing bodies for burial and in need of reproductive health services, they are exposed to and infected by Ebola at higher rates than men.”
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