Sexuality Policy Watch

News and analysis on the Brazilian and Latin American zika virus crisis and its effects on women’s health and reproductive rights here and worldwide

The Zika Virus Could Force Women To Have Unsafe Abortions – Huffington Post

El Salvador’s Advice on Zika Virus: Don’t Have Babies – New York Times

Zika virus: Pregnant women advised to stay away from Rio 2016 Olympics – Independent

Zika virus: Australia warns pregnant women not to travel to affected areas- The Guardian

Zika virus: health experts fear Carnival celebrations will lead to spread – The Guardian

City at centre of Brazil’s Zika epidemic reeling from disease’s insidious effects – The Guardian

Advice to delay pregnancy due to Zika virus is naive, activists say – Fox News

Brazil in Peril: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Zika Virus – The Nation

When A Country Without Abortion Tells Women To Not Get Pregnant – Vocativ

Zika Virus: WHO, Brazil and El Salvador – International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion

Zika Virus Prompts Activists To Push For Legal Abortions In Brazil – Huffington Post

Zika reignites the debate on reproductive rights in Latin America – PRI

The Zika Virus Is a Matter of Reproductive Injustice – Reality Check

Surge of Zika Virus Has Brazilians Re-examining Strict Abortion Laws – New York Times

Zika is the latest example of how hard it is to be a woman in Latin America – Washington Post

Microcephaly Revives Battle for Legal Abortion in Brazil – Inter Press Service

Zika sparks Brazil debate over abortion, access to contraception – Al Jazeera

The Zika Virus and Brazilian Women’s Right to Choose – New York Times

Zika’s spread in Brazil is a crisis of inequality as much as health – The Guardian

What the solution isn’t: the parallel of the Zika and HIV viruses for women – The Lancet

Brazilian researchers find hundreds more microcephaly cases that predate Zika – Globalpost

El Salvador: Protect Women and Families in the Face of the Zika Virus – Center for Reproductive Rights

Catholic group urges pope to allow contraception to fight Zika – Reuters

Catholics to Pope Francis: Act Now and Respect the Consciences and Reproductive Rights of Women – Catholics for Choice

The Lancet’s Zika Virus Resource Centre

Zika Virus in Colombia Presents Complicated Choice About Abortion – New York Times

Upholding women’s human rights essential to Zika response – Zeid – UN Human Rights Office of the High Commisioner

Confronting a new epidemic: consequences of the Zika virus for public health and reproductive rights – International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion

Conspiracy Theories About Zika Spread Through Brazil With the Virus – New York Times

The Zika virus mosquito is unmasking Brazil’s inequality and indifference – The Guardian

‘Zika-linked’ miscarriages pose jail risk for women in El Salvador, activists say – The Guardian

No one actually knows if Brazil’s microcephaly cases are going up or down – Global Post

Zika Increases the Already Grave Dangers of Being Young and Female in El Salvador – Reality Check

Tackling Zika: Have We Learned Our Lesson on Rights? – Reality Check

Health, Human Rights and the Zika Virus – FXB Center for Health & Human Rights | Harvard University

 

 

 

 

 

 



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