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when it deeply affects physical or mental wellbeing, certain illnesses or conditions disproportionately impact Black patients and research has shown that there are discrepancies when it comes to Black versus white patient care. shows the negative impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on sexual and reproductive health, including: childbearing preferences; contraceptive use; access to contraception; telemedicine for contraceptive care; and exposure to intimate partner violence.
While sexual and reproductive health care impacted by COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly affected by the pandemic, “these effects have not been evenly distributed and tend to be felt by groups bearing the brunt of existing inequities.”One-third of women said they wanted to get pregnant later or wanted fewer children because of the pandemic—with Black women and Hispanic women more likely than white women to say so.
One-third of women said because of COVID-19, they were forced to to delay or cancel their visit to a health care provider for sexual and reproductive health care, or had trouble getting their birth control. “Such barriers to timely care were more common among Black and Hispanic women than among white women , and more common among queer women than among straight women .
+ Despite what some believed would be an inevitable ‘baby-boom’ following spring lockdown precautions, the coronavirus pandemic also has proved itself to be more of a
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