Gender and health

• The KIT Library queries, at the bottom of this page, offer quick access to the Library's (printed & electronic) articles, books, and other types of publications on gender and health.
• Under Documents you will recent e-publications that have not (yet) been included in the KIT Library collection.
• A list of Websites is given under Documents
• KIT Library catalogue: here you can conduct your own search

Documents

• Integrating multiple PEPFAR gender strategies to improve HIV interventions recommendations from five case studies of programs in Africa.
  The compendium shows that many HIV service organizations are successfully integrating multiple PEPFAR gender strategies into the spectrum of prevention, care, and treatment programs with promising results.
  USAID | 2011 | 29 pp.

• Gender mainstreaming for health managers: a practical approach. Facilitator's guide
  WHO | 2011 | 29 pp.
• Gender mainstreaming for health managers: a practical approach. Participant notes
  WHO | 2011 | 15 pp.
• Human rights and gender equality in health sector strategies: how to assess policy coherence
  WHO | 2011 | 166 pp.

• Linkages between gender, AIDS and development: implications for U.S. policy
  Fleischman J.
  CSIS | 2010 | 30pp.
• What works for women and girls: evidence for HIV/AIDS interventions
  Gay J. et al.
  New York, Open Society Institute | 2010 | 534p
• Information package on men, gender equity & health
  Greig A.
  WHO | 2010 | 188pp.
  A variety of health problems and health-related activities are addressed in relation to gender equity worldwide.
• The World Health Organization Policy on Global Women's Health: New Frontiers
  Jennifer Requejo Harris, Mario Merialdi, Francesca Merzagora, Francesco Aureli, Flavia Bustreo. Journal of Women's Health. November 2010 | 19 | 11 | p.2115-2118
• Gender and Health eToolkit
  IGWG | 2010
• Engaging men and boys in gender equality and health: a global toolkit for action
  Promundo, UNFPA, MenEngage
  UNFPA | 2010 |
  Each chapter and the tools can be downloaded separately from the website.
• Agenda for accelerated country action for women, girls, gender equality and HIV: operational plan for the UNAIDS action framework
  UNAIDS | 2010 | 34pp.
• Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation
  UNFPA et al
  WHO | 2010 | 27pp.
• Women and health: Report of an online discussion, organized by WHO, 23 November 2009 - 25 January 2010
  WHO | 2010 | 24pp
• Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: data and trends. Update 2010
  Provides information on data and trends of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Africa including 27 developing countries.
  Population Reference Bureau | 2010 | 9pp.
• Linking sexual and reproductive health and gender programs and services with prevention of HIV/STI
  PAHO, Washington | 2010 | 70pp.
• A human rights-based approach to programming: practical information and training materials
  UNFPA and Harvard School of Health
  A step-by-step guide on how to apply a culturally sensitive, gender-responsive, ahuman rights-based approach to programming in UNFPA’s work in the area of population and development, reproductive health, and gender.
  UNFPA | 2010 |
• The end is in sight. Annual report 2009 for UNFPA/UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
  UNFPA and UNICEF | 2010 | 25pp.
• The dynamics of social change. Towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting in five African countries
  This report is about experiences from Senegal, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan.
  UNICEF | 2010 | 68 pp.
• Transforming the national AIDS response: advancing women's leadership and participation
  UNIFEM and Athena Network
  This publication discusses various approaches for advancing women’s leadership and meaningful participation of HIV-positive women in the AIDS response.
  UNIFEM | 2010 | 48pp.
• Women Won't Wait Campaign: What's the budget? Where's the staff? Moving from policy to practice
  Women Wont Wait | 2010 | 60pp.
• Equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all:
  1 - The health of women and girls needs legal and political actions such as the CEDAW.
  2 - Gender-based discrimination limits the attainment of international health and development goals such as the MDGs.
  3 - Health inequalities are the result of systemic failures to realize the right to health for all.
  WHO | 2010 |

Websites

• Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Education and Networking Project
• Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development (FORWARD)
• International Network to Analyze, Communicate and Transform the Campaign against Female Genital Cutting (INTACT)
• RAINBO: Health and Human Rights for African Women
• Tostan, Women’s Health and Human Rights
• Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
• Centre for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
• Engender Health
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Gender, Ethnicity and Health Unit
• World Health Organization (WHO), Gender, Women and Health (GWH) Department
• International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
• Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN)
• United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Gender and HIV/AIDS web portal
• Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA), UNAIDS
• Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
• International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
• Family Care International (FCI)
• Family Health International (FHI)
• Women and Health. The Network: TUFH Taskforce
• Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG),
• Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) - Gender in Health and Development
• What Works for Women and Girls: Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions

KIT Library queries

• Female genital mutilation
• Gender, women and health
• Gender, women and health policy, planning and programmes
• Gender, women and HIV/AIDS
• Gender, women and mental health
• Gender, women and reproductive and sexual health & rights
• Gender, women and sexuality
• Maternal health and mortality
• Men and sexual and reproductive health
• Men and sexuality
• Men and HIV/AIDS

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