Integrating Gender in Human Resources for Health (HRH) Projects
These training modules and handouts provide the materials to conduct a two day workshop designed to help participants define gender and related concepts; understand the continuum of gender as it...
View ArticleGendered Home-Based Care in South Africa: More Trouble for the Troubled
This study investigates the experiences of informal caregivers of people living with HIV in two semi-rural communities in South Africa. It is argued that a thorough understanding of how home-based care...
View ArticleFreedom to Do the Job: Barriers to Female Health Workers Practicing in Pakistan
Pakistan has introduced female health workers to make sure that women are able to receive the health care they need. However, these health workers face the same cultural constraints as other women in...
View ArticleMen's Partnership in Maternal Health (Tajikistan)
This video resource details the social, economic and health care services disparities between urban and rural areas of Tajikistan and how women there struggle with their health and the role of men, or...
View ArticleMen's Partnership in Maternal Health (Jordan)
This video resource shows that despite the awareness advancement regarding reproductive health, women in Jordan still bear the burden of their health alone. This is especially true in rural areas;...
View ArticleAlleviating the Burden of Responsibility: Report on a Study of Men as...
This report details the work of the the Capacity Project assistance to the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to strengthen its capacity to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic by addressing...
View ArticleMen and Care in the Context of HIV and AIDS: Structure, Political Will and...
AIDS is a long and debilitating illness that renders patients unable to fend for themselves. In wealthy countries, health systems provide much of the necessary care; in the developing world, however,...
View ArticleAlleviating the Burden of Responsibility: Men as Providers of Community-Based...
In Lesotho, as in many other countries, the HIV and AIDS care burden falls on the shoulders of women and girls in unpaid, invisible household and community work. This gender inequity in HRH needs to be...
View ArticleHealthy Images of Manhood: a Male Engagement Approach for Workplaces and...
This paper describes a project that has implemented an integrated male engagement program to address gender and family planning/reproductive health in a workplace HIV/AIDS Program. [from author]
View ArticleOccupational Segregation, Gender Essentialism and Male Primacy as Major...
In 2008 the Capacity Project partnered with the Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in a study of the gender dynamics of HIV/AIDS caregiving in three districts of Lesotho to account for men’s...
View ArticleGender and Social Geography: Impact on Lady Health Workers Mobility in Pakistan
In Pakistan, where gendered norms restrict women’s mobility, female community health workers (CHWs) provide doorstep primary health services to home-bound women. This study aims to understand how these...
View ArticleRole of Community-Based Health Planning and Services Strategy in Involving...
This study evaluated the effect of a program that trained community health nurses and relocated them to the community to provide door-to-door services on the level of male involvement in family...
View ArticleReport on the Society for Family Health Gender Assessment
To promote organizational learning and action related to political will and accountability, leadership and management, technical capacity, organizational culture, human resources policies and programs...
View ArticleKenyan Women Medical Doctors and Their Motivations to Pursue International...
Through interviews, researchers found Kenyan women medical clinical researchers shared similar motivations as US women but differed as well. Kenyan medical doctors pursued health research within a...
View ArticleWomen Doctors and their Careers in a Large University Hospital in Spain at...
The aim of this article was to compare the advance of women with that of men and determine the differences between hierarchical status and professional recognition achieved by women in medicine....
View ArticleThe Invisible Economy and Gender Inequalities: The Importance of Measuring...
Unpaid health and child care provided in the household, along with other activities that contribute to the physical, cognitive, and emotional development of members of a household, have a major impact...
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