Thank you.
I will first speak to barriers to abortion access in particular. I mentioned that fundamentally, one challenge is that SRHR services are not being integrated as a foundational part of health care in countries around the world. If you think about somebody who is looking to access a doctor to get support on any range of medical services, that point of service won't necessarily be one where they can access abortion or other sexual health services.
A big element of being able to ensure the provision of these services is to see them integrated fully into universal health care. This is not only abortion; this is also access to contraception. I think that's a big piece, on the abortion access in particular. I think Canada's investments in advocacy for SRHR can play a very critical role in this.
For example, I met with an organization called Resurj in Mexico earlier this year. It is a women's rights organization that is supporting community-led initiatives to bring people from rural communities into Mexico City, where they can access dispensing locations for medication abortion.
You can see community initiatives like this that are helping to fill the gaps in the existing health care systems in these countries. Those kinds of initiatives can be scaled up. By working with partners, they can also advocate towards their governments to help them understand that these are the stopgaps they're putting in place to address the lack of access that is apparent in the health care system. That's on the first point around abortion access.
On the differential challenges in fragile and conflict-affected settings, I think there is fundamentally an erasure of provision of services that happens there. When we prioritize what a humanitarian response looks like, it is often blind to the inclusion of SRH services in the face of that. We look at water, sanitation and infrastructure. Fundamentally understanding that people not only need access to food in those times, but they also need access to health care, is an important part of being able to address those settings in particular.