THE IMPACT OF COVID -19 forced many citizens to resort to home self-medication and local remedies from herbs. This exerted a greater burden on women given their role as the primary care givers within households. Many women were pushed to forego their daily income generating activities as they now had to attend to the sick at home. The initial bans on public and private transport resulted in movement restrictions and people with urgent health needs were not able to access health services. This increased the risk of preventable deaths and suffering. Transport bans also hindered women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services, maternal health care, menstrual hygiene products, contraceptives; and hindered access to emergency healthcare and support when they suffered gender-based violence. Failure of women and other vulnerable groups to access timely transport services did in some cases result in preventable deaths. 11 Gendered impact on girls. National consultative dialogues, surveys and other reports reveal an increase in teenage pregnancies and sexual reproductive rights-related challenges for adolescent girls as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. With schools on lock down, girls were exposed to ‘predators’ and sex offenders. According to police reports, 4,442 cases of defilement were reported between January and April 2020. Likewise, the Sauti, an online platform by the Uganda Adolescent Health Forum reported 800 cases of sexual abuse between January and May 2020. Research on the Influence of International Financial Institutions on Uganda’s COVID – 19 Recovery Agenda