In 2020, the year designated as "The International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife", the Nursing Now strategy (1) further justifies the re-existence of nursing, with strategies, innovative and transformative actions in facing new challenges that are imposed, especially, from the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brazilian nursing workers-at the frontline of care in research and teaching-have made efforts for the Brazilian population's health and strengthened the Unified Health System (SUS-Sistema Único de Saúde). It is worth mentioning that, in the women's health field, midwifery has been placing itself, with other actors, at the forefront of action in the movement for the humanization of childbirth and delivery. Such movement gained concreteness in a broader field with the creation of ReHuNa (Network for the Humanization of Childbirth and Delivery) in 1993; and, in the specific midwifery field, the Brazilian Association of Midwives and Obstetric Nurses (ABENFO-Associação Brasileira de Obstetrizes e Enfermeiras Obstetras) was founded in 1992. Nursing and midwifery have been acting, in line with humanization movement for childbirth and delivery actions and demands, within the scope of professional practice and training, in teaching and in research, in order to transform the biomedical, interventionist and hierarchicallyverticalized obstetric model. Midwifery has been promoting, in conjunction with other actors/entities, public policies in the childbirth and delivery field; in alignment with the 1988 Federal Constitution, SUS guidelines, and specific health policies in fields that intersect with maternal health, sexual and reproductive health and women's health. These trajectories place nursing and Brazilian midwifery-health workforce composed of more than 2.3 million workers (2)-mostly formed by women (85.1%), young people (78% are between 26 and 50 years old) and who declare themselves black or mixed-race (53%) (3) , in a position to make a call to (re)politicization of health and women's (and men's) reproductive sexual rights at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic threatens women's health and rights. The world is experiencing a challenging scenario that has been taking over the planet since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared, on January 30, 2020, the public health emergency of international concern, due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), which was recognized on March 11, 2020 as a pandemic. Data from August 28 indicate that, to date, 24,316,245 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed, with a daily incidence of approximately 300,000 cases and more than 800,000 deaths. The Americas region concentrates approximately 50% of confirmed cases (12,865,897) and more than half of deaths (454,786) (4) , with Brazil emerging as the epicenter of COVID-19. Among all reported cases in the Americas, Brazil accounts for approximately one third of the cases (3,761,391) and about one fourth of the deaths (118,649) (5-6). Brazil ranks second in number of cases, behind only the United States, whi...
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