Female reproductive health in Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic: fertility, contraception and prenatal care: a narrative review

Abstract

Objective: To synthesize scientific evidence on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the reproductive health of Brazilian women, focusing on fertility, contraception and prenatal care. Bibliographic review: In this sense, as direct effects of the pandemic on women's reproductive health, we have the increase in maternal mortality, the growing number of unforeseen pregnancies, the greater number of illegal abortions, the increase in violence against women and the difficulty of do health education. In this way, it was also evident that women were the group of the population most affected by the pandemic insofar as essential services are mostly performed by them. Final considerations: It is noted the great importance of approaching the subject, given that there was a great difficulty in finding articles on the subject and why reproductive health is an irrevocable right, but which is not very accessible in times of pandemic, given that the difficulties of doing family planning.