The World Health Organization strongly encourages men to support women in receiving maternal healthcare. However, especially in developing countries, maternal healthcare has traditionally been viewed as solely a women’s issue. This study aims to understand how gender-based roles, psychosocial variation, and power relations are related to child delivery and postnatal care services.

Between 2018 and 2022, teams from MSF in the Central African Republic (CAR) took care of over 19,500 survivors of sexual violence across the country. During the same period, UNFPA documented 14,907 other cases of sexual violence in CAR reported by other humanitarian organizations working in the country, or by state structures. This report outlines the public health emergency that sexual violence has become in CAR, with recommendations to address the crisis.

This rapid gender analysis provides information and analysis about the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of women, men, boys, and girls to underpin UNRWA’s and other actors’ capacity to design and deliver gender-responsive emergency support. There are critical gaps in access to health services that particularly affect women and adolescent girls, including access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care, newborn care, and sexual and reproductive health services.

Clinicians, scientists, and researchers are responsible for creating an equitable health-care system for all patients, including sexual and gender minority patients. There are limited studies addressing the unique needs of sexual and gender minority patients with cancer—an issue that continues as the cancer health-care community fails to collect sexual orientation and gender identity data in clinical trials and in clinical practice.

This study aimed to examine the factors influencing self-rated health among Chinese older adults by gender differences and provide suggestions and theoretical references to help make policies for older adults’ health concerns by government agencies. Authors hope the study results can help promote the implementation of the Healthy China Initiative, inform intervention measures, and offer new proposals on creating policies for older adults’ health issues by the Chinese government to improve health equity.

This handbook is designed to strengthen national, multisectoral efforts for violence against women and girls (VAWG) prevention and to inspire governments and stakeholders to prioritize, fund, and commit to preventing and ending VAWG in our lifetime. This resource is intended to support countries to develop specialized National Action Plans for VAWG prevention and enhance existing national approaches.