This seminar presents the findings of our research project, which analysed the intersection of Zika, regulation and medical abortion through a comparative case study of Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador. This includes findings from colleagues Ernestina Coast and Tiziana Leone. Each of these states had Zika infected women (albeit with differing incidence) yet represent diverse regulatory environments for abortion, ranging from legalisation in Colombia to criminalisation in El Salvador to medical abortion drugs being on the list of prohibited smuggled drugs in Brazil.
In spite of regulation, however, women have still been accessing medical abortion during the Zika epidemic, through civil society groups, pharmacies and the black market. We analysed the impact of Zika on how women access medical abortion, and how national regulation and debate has impacted women's choices and abortion service provider's activity during this emergency. This has pertinent findings for abortion need and access during COVID-19.
This is a multilingual event, with interpretation offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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About the Speakers:
Camila Abagaro (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) is currently completing a Post Doctoral role in the Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil. She completed her Ph.D: Doctorate in Science in Collective/Public Health (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco, Mexico) in 2015. Previously, she has compeleted her a Master of Science in Health Workers (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco, Mexico) in 2009. She specialised in Teacher Education from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2010) and completed a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (2003). She currently participates in the Programa Nacional de Pós-doutorado da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (PNPD/CAPES). She also works in the areas of teaching, research and extension in the field of Collective Health, with an emphasis on Social and Human Sciences in Health; Work and health; Transformations in the world of work and workers' health; Oral history, work and health; Social determination of health; Gender and health; Human rights and health; Health Policies. She is a member of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social (ALAMES México), the Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO) and the Red Internacional en Salud Colectiva y Salud Intercultural (REDSACSIC).
Amaral Arevalo (Centro Latinoamericano en Sexualidad y Derechos Humanos) is a Researcher at the Latin American Centre for Sexuality and Human Rights.
Sandra Valonguiero (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) graduated in Medicine by the Universidade de Pernambuco, completed a Masters in Demography from CEDEPLAR- UFMG (1996) and completed her Ph.D. in Sociology in the University of Texas at Austin (PRC/UT) (2006). For many years, she had worked in Clinics Hospital of the Federal University of Pernambuco as a public health worker. Currently she is a retired researcher of the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and her mainly activities are teaching and research in the area of public health. She is also a member of the Maternal Mortality Committee of State of Pernambuco.
Clare Wenham (London School of Economics and Political Science) is an Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy. She is the Director of the MSc in Global Health Policy and sits on the steering committee of the LSE Global Health Initiative. She previously worked at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, delivering a series of projects relating to surveillance and transmission of infectious disease. She has a PhD in International Relations at and has advised and/or consulted for UN Women, European Parliament, UNFPA, Asian Development Bank, and UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology.
Tiziana Leone (London School of Economics and Political Science) is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. Tiziana’s research agenda is focused around maternal and reproductive health, including a lifecourse approach to women’s health. She is currently analysing secondary data on the linkages that menarche, menopause and mid-life age have on fertility outcomes and health in later life. She has collaborated in expert roles with international organisations (eg: WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF) in tracking the progress of the MDGs and SDGs in LMICs in maternal and child health.
About the Chair:
Sonia Correa (Visiting Leverhulme Professor, Department of Gender Studies, LSE) has been involved in research and advocacy activities related to gender equality, health and sexuality since the late 1970s. Between 1992 and 2009 she was the research coordinator for sexual and reproductive health and rights at DAWN – Development Alternatives with Women for a new Era – a Southern Hemisphere feminist network. In that capacity she closely followed United Nations negotiations directly impacting on gender and sexuality related matters: the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD – Cairo 1994), the IV World Conference on Women (IV WCW –Beijing, 1995) and their respective reviews. She is currently a research associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS, in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2002, with Richard Parker, she co-chairs Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics.
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