Humanitarian crises can affect women, men, girls and boys in radically different ways. To address the different impacts of conflict and disasters on each group and promote the potential for positive transformation of gender norms, Oxfam calls for humanitarian agencies to analyse, plan, and respond t...o crises in ways that address practical gender needs and promote women’s rights. Oxfam is committed to promoting gender equality and preventing gender-based violence, through the implementation of its Minimum Standards for Gender in Emergencies. In addition, the promotion of gender equality must be central to the broader efforts to protect civilians and manage and prevent conflict and armed violence.
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Advances in Infectious Diseases, 2015, 5, 57-62
Published Online March 2015 in SciRes.
Mapping Report - Catalonia (Spain).
J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2010 Aug;28(4):327-332
ISSN 1606-0997
Review Article:
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 2011;341(6):493–498.]
Towards gender - transformative HIV and TB responses
Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 16, No. 5, May 2010
Fifth interim report to the SMAC program, DFID Freetown
Key strategies for preventing further infection are isolation of the patient in an Ebola care facility, “safe burial”, and quarantine of those exposed to Ebola cases. Equally important is social recognition that isolation, safe burial and ...quarantine are necessary to break the transmission chain. Thus it is important to ask how, and how quickly, communities learn about the risks of infection and the necessity of steps to reduce and eliminate these risks
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