COVID ‐19 and Immigrants’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the United States

In recent months, some of the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care needs, decisions and access across the globe have become evident.  In the United States, the Trump administration has unjustly blamed migrants for the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting this public health crisis to further its long-standing xenophobic agenda and prompting a de facto shutdown of the U.S. immigration system. Yet immigrant communities—particularly thos e of color—are among the hardest hit by this virus, largely as a result of intersecting inequities based on migration status, race and socioeconomic position, all of which contribute to unequal access to quality health care. The perilous health impact of COVID-19 on immigrants in the country has been highlighted by the fact that Latinx individuals, one-third of whom are immigrants, are becoming infected and hospitalized at substantially higher rates than are U.S.-born white individuals.
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: news