Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Require a Special Focus During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chloe R McDonald; Andrea M Weckman; Julie K Wright; Andrea L Conroy; Kevin C Kain

doi:10.3389/fgwh.2020.564560

Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Require a Special Focus During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Front Glob Womens Health. 2020 Sep 25:1:564560. doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2020.564560. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Chloe R McDonald¹, Andrea M Weckman^{2

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4}, Julie K Wright^{2

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5}, Andrea L Conroy⁶, Kevin C Kain^{2

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5}

Affiliations

¹ University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; adverse birth outcomes; antenatal care; health access equity; low- and middle-income countries; pregnancy; sexual and reproductive health.