Recent epidemics, as well as structural challenges to healthcare systems, serve as a reminder that health issues are never neutral: they are embedded in social, economic, and cultural relationships that affect women, men, and gender minorities differently. In many contexts, women face structural barriers to accessing healthcare services: restrictive social norms, the burden of domestic responsibilities, economic dependence, and gender-based violence. Men, for their part, may face other social determinants: masculine norms that discourage seeking care, increased exposure to certain occupational hazards, or risky behaviors encouraged by certain representations of masculinity. The research community is still struggling to address this issue: 60% of drugs are tested in clinical trials where women are underrepresented, while most of these trials do not analyze sex differences. <\/p>\n\n
In light of these findings, the systematic integration of a gender perspective into global health policies and programmes is no longer an option but a necessity. So how can this be put into practice in the field? How can it be brought more directly to international forums for better consideration by decision-makers? <\/strong>As the end of 2025 is marked by numerous international events related to global health and the fight for gender equality, such as the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (November 25 to December 10), the 8th replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and World AIDS Day on December 1, this event provided an opportunity to address issues related to the integration of gender into global health policies.<\/p>\n\n L\u2019\u00e9mission du 4 d\u00e9cembre a permis de d\u00e9battre et d\u2019\u00e9changer pendant 1h30 sur la sant\u00e9 mondiale et les enjeux de genre. Apr\u00e8s un entretien avec J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Pellet, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral d\u2019Expertise France, dans lequel il a pu rappeler l\u2019importante int\u00e9gration du genre de mani\u00e8re transversale dans l\u2019ensemble de nos interventions sur le terrain, et particuli\u00e8rement en sant\u00e9 mondiale o\u00f9 ces enjeux sont extr\u00eamement sensibles, Gallagher Fenwick, le mod\u00e9rateur de l\u2019\u00e9mission, s\u2019est tourn\u00e9e vers 3 intervenants pour la premi\u00e8re table-ronde sur les barri\u00e8res li\u00e9es au genre dans l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux soins et les solutions<\/strong>. Pr\u00e9sent en plateau, Elian Passier, r\u00e9f\u00e9rent genre \u00e0 M\u00e9decins du Monde \u2013 France, a commenc\u00e9 par pr\u00e9senter l\u2019approche genre intersectionnelle de l\u2019ONG et comment elle est appliqu\u00e9e dans ses programmes en C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Madagascar ou encore au Mexique mais aussi la mise en place d\u2019outils pour r\u00e9duire les violences et am\u00e9liorer l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux soins pour les femmes et les minorit\u00e9s de genre<\/strong>, comme des ateliers d\u2019auto-d\u00e9fense. Connect\u00e9e depuis Lyon, Charlotte Berquin, sp\u00e9cialiste Localisation, Genre et Inclusion \u00e0 l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie de l\u2019OMS, a ensuite soulign\u00e9 l\u2019importance d\u2019adapter les formations \u00e0 destination du personnel de sant\u00e9 aux diff\u00e9rents contextes culturels, linguistiques et sociaux des pays d\u2019intervention mais \u00e9galement comment l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie int\u00e8gre de mani\u00e8re syst\u00e9matique l\u2019approche genre en sant\u00e9<\/strong> dans ses cours. Gisele Umutoniwase, Program Director at the Rwanda Men\u2019s Resource Center (RWAMREC), emphasized the need to engage men in the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) and health inequalities. <\/p>\n\n We were also delighted to welcome back G\u00e9raldine Tob\u00e9, a long-time partner of the \u201cPour Elles: Sport et culture\u201d project and a speaker at the 10th-anniversary ceremony of Expertise France in February 2025. A visual artist, joining us live from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), she presented her project \u201cHandicap Mental,\u201d which uses art as a psychotherapeutic tool to support marginalized individuals and break down taboos surrounding women\u2019s mental health in West Africa. <\/p>\n\n In the second half of the program, we welcomed four guests to discuss what happens after patients have access to care: the existing biases in the quality of care provided. Joining us on set were Anne-Sophie Grenouilleau-Albertini, a pharmaceutical advisor at the French National Authority for Health (HAS) and author of the report \u201cSex, Gender, and Health \u201d (2020), and Prof. Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, Head of Midwifery at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), while M\u00e9lanie Samson, Senior Technical Manager, Women\u2019s Health at the World Surgical Foundation, and Kady Kourouma, Head of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services at Solthis, joined us remotely from Geneva and Abidjan. This roundtable discussion allowed Anne-Sophie Grenouilleau-Albertini to emphasize the importance, in her view, of distinguishing between the concepts of sex (biological, anatomical, and chromosomal) and gender (social) in order to design health policies that are fairer and more inclusive of all populations, as well as the actions taken by the HAS to combat gender bias in research and within the medical profession, such as the launch of awareness campaigns. Prof. Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, for her part, highlighted the stark disparities in mortality rates worldwide (1 per 100,000 in Norway versus 1,000 per 100,000 in Chad, for example) and the ICM\u2019s work to train midwives in low-income countries, thereby empowering them to improve the quality of maternal care. Representing the Surgical Foundation, M\u00e9lanie Samson presented her organization\u2019s holistic, woman-centered approach in the countries where it operates\u2014such as Kenya, Nepal, and Nigeria\u2014and its efforts to destigmatize access to cesarean sections and break the taboo surrounding postpartum depression. Finally, Kady Kourouma also highlighted Solthis\u2019s efforts to combat bias in medical care, particularly to challenge healthcare providers\u2019 stigmatizing perceptions of sex workers, whose sexual and reproductive health needs are very often unmet\u2014mainly due to a lack of STI prevention, testing, or pregnancy monitoring. <\/p>\n\n This #RDV concluded with the \u201cPerspective\u201d segment, featuring a presentation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, represented by Michelle Remme, Lead of the Thematic Group on Human Rights, Gender Equality, and Health Equity. Michelle Remme presented this unique global partnership for solidarity and health equity, which has helped save 70 million lives since its inception. 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Gender and quality of care: a differentiated experience<\/h2>\n\n
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