gender

Journal Article

This journal article seeks to understand how men respond to shifting gender relations and rights as well as to understand masculinities, rights, and gender norms across six high HIV/AIDS seroprevalence provinces in South Africa.

Website

This website provides a collection of eight scales, or numerical scores, that aggregate multiple indicators on facets of gender, such as gender beliefs, gender relations, and household decision-making. The scales are useful as there is not one standard for measuring gender norms, gender attitudes, women's empowerment, and other aspects of gender as gender operates in multiple spheres.

Case Study

This case study documents the Sonke Gender Justice Network’s Fatherhood project, which was designed to reduce HIV transmission and address related problems, such as gender-based violence, women’s overwhelming burden of care, and the preponderance of children in need of care and support.

Journal Article

This article presents background on the frequency of gender-based violence and outlines the ways in which it is an impediment to health passed on from generation to generation.

Publication

This publication is a collection of case studies of evaluated programs demonstrating how integrating gender improves health project results.

Publication

This publication summarizes how FRONTIERS project improved understanding of the impact of gender issues on reproductive health and helped identify effective actions for incorporating gender perspective into

Publication

This publication assesses the effectiveness of programme interventions seeking to engage men and boys in achieving gender equality and equity in health.

Publication

This publication analyzes data from 10 countries and sheds new light on the prevalence of violence against women in countries where few data were previously available. It also uncovers the forms and patterns of this violence across different countries and cultures, documenting the consequences of violence for women’s health.

Fact Sheet

This fact sheet outlines the requirements for a health and family planning facility to be designated gender sensitive.

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