Promoting gender, equity, human rights and ethnic equality in neglected tropical disease programmes

Gender Equality and Equity

Neglected tropical diseases: equity and social determinants

1 The authors would like to acknowledge the valuable input of reviewers (especially Susan Watts and Erik Blas), and Birte Holm Sørensen for her comments regarding the potential of social determinants as indicators of multiendemic populations. Also thanks to staff members of the WHO Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases for their support and advice.

Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

indicators only partially capture the elements of gender equality, the chapter introduces fi ve complementary indicators that provide a more complete and nuanced description of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The indicators are measurable, actionable, and parsimonious; three of the fi ve build on existing measures of other MDGs, so the data requirements for monitoring them are not oner...

Exploring Gender Dimensions of Treatment Programmes for Neglected Tropical Diseases in Uganda

BACKGROUND Gender remains a recognized but relatively unexamined aspect of the potential challenges for treatment programmes for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). We sought to explore the role of gender in access to treatment in the Uganda National Neglected Tropical Disease Control Programme. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Quantitative and qualitative data was collected in eight villages i...

Promoting gender equity in family medicine.

With their endorsement of the Hamilton Equity Recommendations1 (the HER Statement), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Ontario College of Family Physicians have joined with their international colleagues in making a commitment to gender* equity. The HER Statement, which was developed at a unique meeting of the Wonca Working Party on Women and Family Medicine (WWPWFM) atte...