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Building strong health systems: An analysis of coordination among the Global Fund, the Global Financing Facility and Gavi

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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, & […]
COVID-19 and Gender Research in LMICs - October-December 2020 Quarterly Review Report

COVID-19 and gender research in low and middle-income countries

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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 […]
Gender & Health Hub Buzzboard

Gender & Health Hub Buzzboard

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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 […]
Understanding Women%u2019s and Girls%u2019 Vulnerabilities to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Understanding women’s and girls’ vulnerabilities to the COVID-19 pandemic: A gender analysis and data dashboard of low- and lower-middle income countries

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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 […]
Experiences among adults and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic from four locations across Kenya

Experiences among adults and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic from four locations across Kenya

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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, […]
COVID-19 and gender in low-income and middle-income countries

COVID-19 and gender in low-income and middle-income countries: Potential lessons from the HIV pandemic

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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 […]
After six months of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil

After six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

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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 […]
COVID-19 and Gender Research in LMICs

COVID-19 and gender research in low- and middle-income countries

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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 […]
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