Health & Wellbeing
How can we make sure the different needs of women and men inform health service provision? Gender analysis needs to be integrated into health sector policy and planning. This theme explores key gender issues for the health sector, including sexual and reproductive health and rights but also moving beyond this to include the health needs of both women and men over their life-course.
BRIDGE publications
Women's social, economic, and legal disadvantage is exacerbated by a positive HIV status, and vice versa. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
BRIDGE publications
Why, after 20 years of international responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic are infection rates still on the increase? Why are the numbers of women living with HIV increasing faster than the number of men? HIV/AIDS is not only driven by gender inequality - it makes gender inequality worse, putting women, men and children further at risk. What can be done to address a problem entrenched in this inequality, denial and stigma? International experience demonstrates that an approach which transforms gender relations is needed to effectively tackle the epidemic.
Documents on Health & Wellbeing (627)
Author:
J. Schalkwk; B. Woronuik,
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , Nov 1998
How is equality between women and men relevant to waste disposal systems' Given that responsibilities and resources tend to differ amongst men and women, views regarding what is defined as ...
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Author:
J. Francis; C. Van Wijk,
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, Nov 1997
Drawn from the UNESCO Regional Workshop on Women's Participation in Water Management which took place in Pretoria, South Africa in November 1998, this paper explores the concept of gender in ...
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Author:
F. Mawuena Dotse; N. Odai Laryea; B. Yankson,
Loughborough University of Technology, Jun 1997
Shouldn't communities be given equal opportunity to participate in the provision and delivery of water projects' If so, why is that men tend to be in the fore in water ...
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Australian Agency for International Development , Mar 2000
There are countless examples in the developing world of water and sanitation (WSS) projects which have failed because not all members of the community, particularly women, were fully involved in ...
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Author:
J. Rodgers,
International Labour Organization , Jun 1999
The International Labour Organization (ILO) approaches violence against women as a three-pronged issue: a human rights issue, a labour issue and a health and safety issue. Its efforts focus primarily ...
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, Jun 1998
To achieve gender balance in water and sanitation programming it is essential to address both the different needs of men and women, girls and boys, and the inequalities in access ...
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Author:
N. Carrasco Sanez; R. M. Door de Ubillas; S. Mendonca,
, Nov 1998
Deficiencies in iron, iodine and vitamin A can lead to increased vulnerability to illness, fatigue, blindness, memory loss and an increased likelihood of mental retardation among offspring. A project implemented ...
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BRIDGE, Aug 1999
Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) form the main framework for Danida's development assistance and SWAps are increasingly being adopted by donor agencies as an effective and efficient way to ensure that ...
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Author:
Z. Oxaal,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Mar 1997
Developed as background information to feed into a later gender country profile of Nicaragua, this bibliographical list focuses on areas of health, agriculture, transport and infrastructure, environment, legal status and ...
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Author:
R. Masika; ,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Jun 1997
Broad categories - utilisation surveys; health sector; health economics; healthcare; gender, health education and information systems; and women and health - are used to organise entries in this bibliographical list ...
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