A gender sensitive approach should be taken in all interventions.
The importance of using a gender sensitive approach is also reinforced by our findings.
The training programme focused on the recommendations (see boxes below) for a gender sensitive approach to the three diseases in the general practice.
The role of research, and operational research in this process is less clear, and there is limited discussion on strategies that mainstream a pro-poor and gender sensitive approach throughout the research cycle.
With this paper the authors want to present gender sensitive approaches in epidemiological research and introduce into a project and ideas, how gender sensitive research in epidemiology might look in future.
Another main issue identified by staff is the entrenched gender bias from refugees' countries of origin, which in many cases prohibit women from full participation in education – a dynamic which implies the need to develop gender sensitive approaches to providing education (Anselme & Hands, 2010).
As women are most economically, culturally, and socially disadvantaged and lack equal treatment acceptance and empowerment, gender sensitive approaches should be enhanced in treatment, care, and support in dealing with PLHIV.
Empowerment of Communities and Households Through Participatory and Gender Sensitive Approaches: Gender equity was addressed in the project through an affirmative action to reserve 60% of positions in the VHWCs for women, and then later the provision of gender awareness in CBM training.
The Individual Deprivation Measure: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Poverty Measurement, authored with Scott Wisor, Sharon Bessell, Fatima Castillo, Joanne Crawford, Kieran Donaghue, Janet Hunt, Alison Jaggar, and Amy Liu (Melbourne: The International Women's Development Agency 2014).
The charity has recently released a statement saying: "The NHS must address men's under-use of GPs as well as their under-use of pharmacies, smoking cessation, weight management services and health trainers and look for ways to develop a gender-sensitive approach to service provison".
The GCF has promoted a gender-sensitive approach from the outset.
