WHO works on a manual to “go beyond the binary approach to gender”


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The organisation will release an update of the manual for health managers which states that “sex is not limited to male or female”.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that it has started work on the update of its Gender mainstreaming for health managers manual.

The document dates from 2011 and it “addresses how gender norms, roles and relations affect health-related behaviours and outcomes as well as health sector responses”.

So far, the manual “recognizes that gender inequality is a cross-cutting determinant of health that operates in conjunction with other forms of discrimination based on factors such as age, socio-economic status, ethnicity or place of origin and sexual orientation”.

According to the WHO, it “provides a basis for addressing other forms of health-related discrimination”.

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