Marleen Vellekoop

Marleen Vellekoop is project director for the Evidence for Action (E4A) project at Options Consultancy Ltd., an international development consultancy. The project aims to improve health care for women and girls in Nigeria and Kenya. She is an expert in health governance, reproductive health and global health security.

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A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Gender

Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

by Marleen Vellekoop, Meshack Acholla, Julia Hanne

Africa’s unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women’s health in danger