With each passing day, the scale of the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences are becoming ever more apparent and alarming. UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, stands in solidarity with all those responding to the novel coronavirus: from the medical staff and volunteers bravely tending to the sick, to the bus drivers and care-workers who have been catapulted onto the front line of the r...

The world has changed since this report was written, but as we come together to stop the spread of COVID-19, UNFPA Tanzania remains as committed as ever to delivering on our three zeros – zero unmet need for family planning; zero maternal death; and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices – and will continue to prioritize and respond to the needs of the most vulnerable women and girls and young people.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, governments are taking unprecedented measures to limit the spread of the virus, ramping up health system responses and announcing movement restrictions affecting millions. Policymakers must not lose sight of the vulnerabilities of women and girls.