reproductive health


M


ost people know that UNHCR provides live-saving emergency assistance to


refugees and displaced people in the form of clean water and sanitation, as well as shelter materials and other relief items, including blankets, sleeping mats and sometimes food. What many don’t realize is that the agency’s mandate also includes delivering vital education and health care services. Reproductive health needs in particular are “a question of survival,” according to Nadine Cornier, who is Senior Regional Reproductive Health and HIV Coordinator at UNHCR.


“My job is to ensure that refugees have access to reproductive health,” Cornier says. “Tat includes both emergency and non-emergency situations. When there’s a humanitarian crisis, I’m in the field to help set up life-saving priorities, which are not always obvious in terms of reproductive health, but we are definitely saving lives. Tat includes newborn and maternal care, taking care of girls and women who have been sexually assaulted and providing HIV antiretroviral treatments.”


WE ARE ALL PEOPLE AND IT’S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO GIVE BACK RESPONSIBILITY AND DIGNITY.


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