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  Why gender mainstreaming is important when planning and implementing health interventions: examples from COMDIS-HSD

  Many of the projects undertaken by COMDIS-HSD have shown the importance of gender mainstreaming during the design and assessment of health interventions. This policy brief outlines some examples and shares our experiences of gender mainstreaming in disease prevention, pre-diagnosis, diagnosis and treatment. It shows that the best way of identifying barriers and solutions to accessing healthcare is to talk directly to some of the women and men involved.

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