How do the Global Financing Facility, Gavi and Global Fund approach health system strengthening in their policies? How is cooperation between the 3Gs in this area developing? What is still needed to translate this into country contexts? Through this new report, produced jointly by Cordaid and Wemos, we tried to answer these questions… Cordaid, & […]
A literature review of the intersections of COVID-19 and gender in low and middle-income countries. We reviewed more than 300 peer-reviewed and pre-print articles, working papers, reports, and briefs to understand what research did (and did not) focus on in terms of women and girl’s health, gender norms and gendered social outcomes, economic impacts, women’s […]
The Gender & Health Hub Buzzboard is an online discussion forum by the United Nations University-International Institute of Global Health, aimed at setting the agenda for health research. Participants may contribute to five thematic gender and COVID-19 areas: Health knowledge, behaviour, and status of those directly and indirectly affected by COVID-19 across the life course […]
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in March 2020, mixed methods data produced by the Social Sciences Analytics Cell (CASS) and its partners presents a dynamic where pre-existing disparities between men and women in terms of health, social protection and economic status are being exacerbated by […]
In which low- and lower-middle income countries are women and girls most exposed to or at most risk to suffer the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic? How well are these countries able to address these effects? Informed by these two questions, this report and the corresponding pandemic-related gender vulnerability data dashboard aims to identify […]
Dear Joe Biden and Kamala Harris You will be taking charge of the US administration at a critical time for both the US and the world. The global covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 50 million people and 12 million Americans, caused the deaths of more than one million people, and is far from over. […]
To control the spread of coronavirus, the COVID-19 National Emergency Response Committee (NERC) in Kenya, chaired by the Ministry of Health (MOH), has implemented prevention and mitigation measures. To inform the Government of Kenya’s shorter- and longer-term response strategies, the Population Council COVID-19 study team utilizes rapid phone-based surveys to collect information on knowledge, attitudes, […]
The Novel Coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome is a public health concern that has resulted in over 4.6 million cases globally, with more than 311,000 deaths as of May 2020 [1]. The impact of COVID-19 on low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is still unknown but could be catastrophic [2]. Already crippled by weak […]
To mark the six months of Covid-19 in Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has published a special edition of its Covid-19 Observatory Bulletin with an assessment of the pandemic that has been having effects on the health of populations and challenging science all over the world. Made by a multidisciplinary team of researchers of […]
Research on COVID-19 and the social, economic and health ramifications of this pandemic is rapidly emerging from many disciplines. Concerns about losses to gender equality and the gendered impacts of the pandemic have been raised from its early stages, and research is increasingly beginning to consider the role gender plays in these relationships. Gendered impacts […]
We meet online every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and public health emergencies.
We meet online every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and public health emergencies.
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