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I. CRITICAL NEEDS, VULNERABILITIES AND DRIVERS OF MATERNAL & NEONATAL MORTALITY
Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services is severely affected in crisis zones, particularly in the East (Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Ituri, Tanganyika, Maniema) and the Grand Bandundu region, where populations face prohibitive costs, long distances to facilities, and a degraded quality of care. This increases the risk of maternal mortality, driven by low access to prenatal consultations, assisted deliveries, and Cesarean sections. Timely access to other lifesaving SRH services, such as the clinical management of rape, is critically compromised even as sexual violence is used as a tactic of war to terrorize populations, with over 90,000 cases of sexual violence documented between January and September 2025 alone. This situation has led to significant unmet needs regarding family planning and critical shortages of Interagency Reproductive Health kits specifically post-rape kits and contraceptives which are frequently out of stock following the suspension of vital funding that previously supported health capacities.