How gender is socially constructed in policy making processes: a case study of the Adolescent and Youth Health policy in South Africa
21 September 2023
Drivers of retention of the HIV workforce transitioned from PEPFAR support to the Uganda government payroll
23 February 2024<strong>By:</strong>
By: Asha S. George, Claudia A Lopes, Lavanya Vijayasingham, Mamothena C. Mothupi, Ronald Musizvingoza, Gita Mishram, Jacqui Stevenson, Michelle Remme
While the acute and collective crisis from the pandemic is over, an estimated 2.5 million people died from COVID-19 n 2022, tens of millions suffer from long COVID and national economies still reel from multiple deprivations exacerbated by the pandemic. Sex and gender biases deeply mark these evolving experiences of COVID-19, impacting the quality of science and effectiveness of the responses deployed. To galvanise change by strengthening evidence-informed inclusion of sex and gender in COVID-19 practice, we led a virtual collaboration to articulate and prioritise gender and COVID-19 research needs.
It remains imperative to address the basics in gender and health (sex-disaggregated data and sex-specific needs) and also advance transformational goals to advance gender justice across health and social policies, including those related to global research.
