Nairobi, March 29 -- Neglecting gender dynamics, and the potential of equity-based approaches to disease outbreak responses, has disproportionate physical, societal and financial implications on women.
The lived experiences of women and girls during an outbreak can be drawn from studies done in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak and Zika virus in Brazil, among others.
Beyond the economic implications of Covid-19, there are other issues that weigh differently among the genders.
Foremost, in health, it's reported that women make up a majority of healthcare workers globally, almost 70 per cent according to some estimates. Most of them occupy nursing roles.
In Kenya, nurses' and doctors' unions are alarmed over the perceived laxity of t...