• Caroline Moreau

This project explores the question: has COVID-19 exacerbated the sexual and reproductive health penalty for the urban poor in Kinshasa? It will take advantage of the Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) longitudinal data collected in Kinshasa with 75% of its population living in slum areas. I has three specific aims: (1) compare two community indicators of urban slum derived from household and spatial information; (2) describe pre-COVID SRH disparities between women living in formal versus informal urban settings based on the intersection of these 2 indicators; and (3) evaluate changes in reproductive health disparities by urban residence (formal/informal settlement) during the pandemic.