; and (5) ensuring that frontline workers, including those providing in-person services to address gender-based violence, have the personal protective equipment, training, and other safety measures needed to safely provide essential services during the pandemic on an urgent basis and in a manner consistent with efforts to respond to the spread of COVID–19 in the United States. (c) Authorization of assistance to the United Nations Population Fund Notwithstanding the Secretary of State's determination on July 8, 2019, made pursuant to the third proviso of title III of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2019 (division F of Public Law 116–6 ), funds authorized under this Act shall be made available to the United Nations Population Fund, including for the following purposes in COVID–19 impacted countries: (1) Improved data collection, coordination, technical expertise and availability of dedicated gender advisors to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in humanitarian settings through the Gender Based Violence Area of Responsibility forum, which is managed by the United Nations Population Fund, and across sectors of humanitarian action, including through training and sensitization of humanitarian aid workers on identification of and care for survivors of gender-based violence, which has spiked globally amid the COVID–19 pandemic. (2) Procurement and distribution of personal protective equipment to assist frontline health care workers on an urgent basis and in a manner consistent with efforts to respond to the spread of COVID–19 in the United States. (3) Procurement and distribution of sanitizing agents to assist frontline health care workers in infection control. (4) Reduction of preventable maternal deaths by delivering prenatal care, antenatal care, and safe childbirth delivery services. (5) Addressing the unmet need for contraception, by procuring and distributing essential contraceptive supplies and by improving the functioning of the supply chain. (6)