TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Testoni, Alessandra
T1  -  Gender-specific medicine in humanitarian contexts
PY  -  2019
Y1  -  2019-01-01
DO  -  10.1723/3148.31297
JO  -  The Italian Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine
JA  -  Ital J Gender-Specific Med
VL  -  5
IS  -  1
SP  -  31
EP  -  38
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  2612-3487
Y2  -  2026/04/15
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1723/3148.31297
N2  -  Summary. With more than 135 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, with an unprecedented 68.5 million people around the world forced from home, half under the age of 18, nearly 25.4 million refugees, average displacement soaring to 17-25 years, crises have become the ‘new standard’. Crises affect women and men differently. Women and girls are indeed the most impacted, first of all in terms of reduced access to basic services, specifically to health services (pregnancy, childbirth). On top of that, women and girls are the most vulnerable to the threat of sexual and gender-based violence. As a matter of fact, when crises hit, the humanitarian response very often does not take the gender-specific medicine perspective into due account. Improving the overall framework of gender-specific medicine in humanitarian responses is crucial. Meanwhile some smaller pilot projects, as in South Sudan the project to address the psychosocial needs of internally displaced persons (mainly women and children) and another one targeted at increasing the availability of basic and emergency healthcare services in the maternal and child environment, have helped probe the way forward and find a new pattern for responding.
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