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Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries
BACKGROUND: Delivery of preventive chemotherapy (PC) through mass drug administration (MDA) is used to control or eliminate five of the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The success of an MDA campaign relies on the ability of drug distributors and their supervisors—the NTD front-line w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6922366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31856174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224925 |
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author | Shoemaker, Erica A. Dale, Kelly Cohn, Daniel A. Kelly, Maureen P. Zoerhoff, Kathryn L. Batcho, Wilfrid E. Bougouma, Clarisse Nko’Ayissi, Georges B. Meite, Aboulaye Marfo, Benjamin Goepogui, André Telfort, Marc-Aurele Sianipar, Lita Renata Traore, Mahamadou Rimal, Pradip Alfari, Djibo Aichatou Anyaike, Chukwuma Badiane, Fatou N. Kargbo-Labour, Ibrahim Mwingira, Upendo J. Awoussi, Marcel S. Stelmach, Rachel D. Smith, Carly L. Arney, Jennifer Faramand, Taroub Harb Stukel, Diana M. Pou, Bolivar Rotondo, Lisa A. Kraemer, John D. Baker, Margaret C. |
author_facet | Shoemaker, Erica A. Dale, Kelly Cohn, Daniel A. Kelly, Maureen P. Zoerhoff, Kathryn L. Batcho, Wilfrid E. Bougouma, Clarisse Nko’Ayissi, Georges B. Meite, Aboulaye Marfo, Benjamin Goepogui, André Telfort, Marc-Aurele Sianipar, Lita Renata Traore, Mahamadou Rimal, Pradip Alfari, Djibo Aichatou Anyaike, Chukwuma Badiane, Fatou N. Kargbo-Labour, Ibrahim Mwingira, Upendo J. Awoussi, Marcel S. Stelmach, Rachel D. Smith, Carly L. Arney, Jennifer Faramand, Taroub Harb Stukel, Diana M. Pou, Bolivar Rotondo, Lisa A. Kraemer, John D. Baker, Margaret C. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Delivery of preventive chemotherapy (PC) through mass drug administration (MDA) is used to control or eliminate five of the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The success of an MDA campaign relies on the ability of drug distributors and their supervisors—the NTD front-line workers—to reach populations at risk of NTDs. In the past, our understanding of the demographics of these workers has been limited, but with increased access to sex-disaggregated data, we begin to explore the implications of gender and sex for the success of NTD front-line workers. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We reviewed data collected by USAID-supported NTD projects from national NTD programs from fiscal years (FY) 2012–2017 to assess availability of sex-disaggregated data on the workforce. What we found was sex-disaggregated data on 2,984,908 trainees trained with financial support from the project. We then analyzed the percentage of males and females trained by job category, country, and fiscal year. During FY12, 59% of these data were disaggregated by sex, which increased to nearly 100% by FY15 and was sustained through FY17. In FY17, 43% of trainees were female, with just four countries reporting more females than males trained as drug distributors and three countries reporting more females than males trained as trainers/supervisors. Except for two countries, there were no clear trends over time in changes to the percent of females trained. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: There has been a rapid increase in availability of sex-disaggregated data, but little increase in recruitment of female workers in countries included in this study. Women continue to be under-represented in the NTD workforce, and while there are often valid reasons for this distribution, we need to test this norm and better understand gender dynamics within NTD programs to increase equity. |
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spelling | pubmed-69223662020-01-07 Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries Shoemaker, Erica A. Dale, Kelly Cohn, Daniel A. Kelly, Maureen P. Zoerhoff, Kathryn L. Batcho, Wilfrid E. Bougouma, Clarisse Nko’Ayissi, Georges B. Meite, Aboulaye Marfo, Benjamin Goepogui, André Telfort, Marc-Aurele Sianipar, Lita Renata Traore, Mahamadou Rimal, Pradip Alfari, Djibo Aichatou Anyaike, Chukwuma Badiane, Fatou N. Kargbo-Labour, Ibrahim Mwingira, Upendo J. Awoussi, Marcel S. Stelmach, Rachel D. Smith, Carly L. Arney, Jennifer Faramand, Taroub Harb Stukel, Diana M. Pou, Bolivar Rotondo, Lisa A. Kraemer, John D. Baker, Margaret C. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Delivery of preventive chemotherapy (PC) through mass drug administration (MDA) is used to control or eliminate five of the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The success of an MDA campaign relies on the ability of drug distributors and their supervisors—the NTD front-line workers—to reach populations at risk of NTDs. In the past, our understanding of the demographics of these workers has been limited, but with increased access to sex-disaggregated data, we begin to explore the implications of gender and sex for the success of NTD front-line workers. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We reviewed data collected by USAID-supported NTD projects from national NTD programs from fiscal years (FY) 2012–2017 to assess availability of sex-disaggregated data on the workforce. What we found was sex-disaggregated data on 2,984,908 trainees trained with financial support from the project. We then analyzed the percentage of males and females trained by job category, country, and fiscal year. During FY12, 59% of these data were disaggregated by sex, which increased to nearly 100% by FY15 and was sustained through FY17. In FY17, 43% of trainees were female, with just four countries reporting more females than males trained as drug distributors and three countries reporting more females than males trained as trainers/supervisors. Except for two countries, there were no clear trends over time in changes to the percent of females trained. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: There has been a rapid increase in availability of sex-disaggregated data, but little increase in recruitment of female workers in countries included in this study. Women continue to be under-represented in the NTD workforce, and while there are often valid reasons for this distribution, we need to test this norm and better understand gender dynamics within NTD programs to increase equity. Public Library of Science 2019-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6922366/ /pubmed/31856174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224925 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shoemaker, Erica A. Dale, Kelly Cohn, Daniel A. Kelly, Maureen P. Zoerhoff, Kathryn L. Batcho, Wilfrid E. Bougouma, Clarisse Nko’Ayissi, Georges B. Meite, Aboulaye Marfo, Benjamin Goepogui, André Telfort, Marc-Aurele Sianipar, Lita Renata Traore, Mahamadou Rimal, Pradip Alfari, Djibo Aichatou Anyaike, Chukwuma Badiane, Fatou N. Kargbo-Labour, Ibrahim Mwingira, Upendo J. Awoussi, Marcel S. Stelmach, Rachel D. Smith, Carly L. Arney, Jennifer Faramand, Taroub Harb Stukel, Diana M. Pou, Bolivar Rotondo, Lisa A. Kraemer, John D. Baker, Margaret C. Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries |
title | Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries |
title_full | Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries |
title_fullStr | Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries |
title_short | Gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: Data from 16 countries |
title_sort | gender and neglected tropical disease front-line workers: data from 16 countries |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6922366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31856174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224925 |
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