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Tigray: Family Planning

Original answer

In Ethiopia we have a large bilateral family planning programme - Family Planning by Choice - which works to improve access to, quality of and the voluntary update of family planning and safe abortion services across the country, including Tigray. Our global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programme "WISH" complements this programme, providing lifesaving services across refugee camps in the region. While hampered by the communications blackout, we are in close contact with Family Planning by Choice, WISH and our wider set of health and humanitarian partners to establish the status of ongoing UK-funded activities and understand changing needs, including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. We have worked with the UN on response planning, which includes commitment to minimum initial services package for emergency reproductive health. We are working to secure humanitarian access to deliver further assistance.

Globally, the UK remains firmly committed to supporting the Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crises and this year provided UNFPA with an additional £10 million for lifesaving SRH services as part of the global humanitarian response plan to COVID-19.

The answer was corrected by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative)

on Wednesday, 16 December 2020 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Corrected answer

In Ethiopia we have a large bilateral family planning programme - Family Planning by Choice - which works to improve access to, quality of and the voluntary update of family planning and safe abortion services across the country, including Tigray. Our global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights programme "WISH" complements this programme, providing lifesaving services across refugee camps in the region. While hampered by the communications blackout, we are in close contact with Family Planning by Choice, WISH and our wider set of health and humanitarian partners to establish the status of ongoing UK-funded activities and understand changing needs, including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. We have worked with the UN on response planning, which includes commitment to minimum initial services package for emergency reproductive health. We are working to secure humanitarian access to deliver further assistance.

Globally, the UK remains firmly committed to supporting the Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crises and this year provided UNFPA with an additional £10 million for lifesaving SRH services as part of the global humanitarian response plan to COVID-19.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL10677

Session

2019-21

Subjects

Armed conflict Abortion Women Family planning Tigray

Link

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