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Unheard Unseen

Unheard unseen: a COVID-19 briefing

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Ensuring the inclusion of marginalised women in fragile and conflict-affected states in COVID-19 prevention, response and recovery: The cracks in our systems have been brutally exposed. COVID-19 is amplifying inequalities and power disparities. Poverty, insecurity and gender-based violence are spiralling – and those who are already unheard and unseen will be hit the hardest. 2020 […]
Women in Global Health Statement

Women in Global Health statement on COVID-19 and the future

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A Call for Coordinated Global Action to Build Back Gender-Responsive Health Systems. There is a vibrant global movement of women in health actively organizing around COVID-19, sharing evidence and resources across borders in a spirit of sisterly solidarity. Women are the majority in health and social care. The expertise and the woman power is out […]
If COVID-19 is the Titanic, the economy is the iceberg

If COVID-19 is the Titanic, the economy is the iceberg

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The pandemic has shown how essential care labour is to the functioning of the global economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a key truth of human society; at some time or another we all need to be cared for. To visualize this reality, imagine the COVID-19 pandemic is the Titanic and the economy is the […]
Where The Women Arent

Where the women aren’t: on coronavirus task forces

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There are 27 members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Only two are women: Dr. Deborah Birx and Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It’s a gender breakdown that’s echoed around the world. For example, 10 of the 31 members and advisers of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee […]
Covid19 And Adolescent Girls Reducing The Long Term Impact

COVID-19 and adolescent girls: reducing the long term impact

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The direct impact of Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing lockdown across the world and its effect on the population during and after the same is yet to completely emerge. This pandemic forces us, as a global community, to rethink how we look at and interact with each other as human beings and evaluate all the social […]
COVID19 biological factors in mens vulnerability

COVID-19: biological factors in men’s vulnerability

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The reasons behind the disproportionately higher number of deaths among men compared with women as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be clear for some time. Here the authors discuss some of the potential biological explanations for why men seem to succumb more readily to the deadly effects of the virus. As COVID-19 […]
COVID19 Equity Mens Health

COVID-19, equity and men’s health: using evidence to inform future public health policy, practice and research responses in pandemics

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In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) reflected a global pandemic. Early epidemiological analyses demonstrated that boys and men have similar rates of COVID-19 infection to girls and women. However, boys and men appear to be disproportionately impacted with respect to severity and mortality, including those from marginalised or […]
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Women have been largely ignored in the COVID-19 response. This must change

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