Displaced and Desperate: Assessment of Reproductive Health for Colombia's Internally Displaced Persons

The assessment team found that internally displaced persons (IDPs) suffer a critical lack of access to reproductive health care owing to a number of factors. Colombians' access to health care overall is faltering between national policy at the central level and services to the population at decentralized levels, leaving many Colombians, particularly IDPs, to fall through the cracks without health care. While the main role of United Nations (UN) agencies is to support local and national capacity to respond to the humanitarian crisis, the Colombian government has abdicated its responsibility to provide reproductive health services and the result is a tragic dearth of services for IDPs.