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Lindsay Stark, Melissa Meinhart, Luissa Vahedi, Simone E Carter, Elisabeth Roesch, Isabel Scott Moncrieff, Philomene Mwanze Palaku, Flore Rossi, Catherine Poulton
As the gender dimensions of COVID-19 are increasingly recognized, efforts to place gender-based violence (GBV) within the pandemic remain inadequate. It is vital to first recognize that the drivers and impacts of COVID-19 and GBV do not occur in isolation; rather, they present themselves as syndemic: each is rendered more destructive by the presence of the other.1 Thus, it is not the COVID-19 infection that increases the risk of GBV, but rather the gender-insensitive systems and policies that amplify the risk. 2
Based on the awareness that public health crises of violence and infectious disease intersect, we use a trade union perspective to examine their shared influence in humanitarian settings. This paper leverages learnings from the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to inform and strengthen ongoing responses related to GBV and COVID-19 within humanitarian settings.
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