Thread by @clarewenham

🚨New Year, New Paper 🚨

Remember research before #COVID19 - findings from our 3 year study on access to #abortion during #zika in Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia in press now W/ @socscimed
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We found that whilst #zika spurred abortion demand amongst individual womxn and global debate on #reproductiverights - the heath emergency didn’t change national regulation or policy change for abortion access.
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This was on account of the narrow policy path dependency in #globalhealthsecurity focused on epidemiology which did not consider gendered needs or the broader social effects of epidemics, combined with deeply conservative context + recent political history
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Yet, lack of legal provision in Brazil & El Salvador didn’t stop women seeking abortion because of #zika - clandestine abortion continued.

in Colombia where abortion was legally permitted, multiple barriers to access remained: cost, location, need for later termination
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This speaks to broader downstream effects of #healthemergencies on #women and the need to understand everyday gendered realities and decision-making when crafting pandemic response policy at global and national levels

These are the themes we are working on at @Gender_COVID19 5/

This Zika research the result of several years of conversations and work with an amazing team - @CAbagaro @Sandravalong @eecoast @tizianaleone Sonia Correa @sxpolitics Katherine Cuellar and Amaral Arévalo

Copy edited version out soon. 6/

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