Challenging Gender Norms and Inequalities to Improve Health
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Recognizing the influence of gender-based inequality on health outcomes, international organizations have advocated integrating a gender perspective into health programs.1 To recommend evidence-based strategies to accomplish this goal, the Gender, Policy and Measurement (GPM) program—funded by the Asia bureau of USAID—conducted a systematic review of published and unpublished literature documenting gender-aware programs. GPM wished to identify strategies that health programs had used to accommodate (work around) or transform areas of gender inequality, and whose influence on key health outcomes had been measured. This review yielded 145 gender-integrated interventions conducted in lowand middle-income countries—32 of them in India—that had been evaluated for their impact on
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