@article{ref1,
title="The syndemic of COVID-19 and gender-based violence in humanitarian settings: leveraging lessons from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo",
journal="BMJ global health",
year="2020",
author="Stark, Lindsay and Meinhart, Melissa and Vahedi, Luissa and Carter, Simone E. and Roesch, Elisabeth and Scott Moncrieff, Isabel and Mwanze Palaku, Philomene and Rossi, Flore and Poulton, Catherine",
volume="5",
number="11",
pages="e4194-e4194",
abstract="Efforts to situate gender-based violence (GBV) within the COVID-19 pandemic remain inadequate. Based on the knowledge that the public health crises of violence and infectious disease are intersecting, we use a syndemic perspective to examine their shared influence in humanitarian settings.       When the humanitarian community exclusively prioritises the lives saved from infectious diseases, such as Ebola and COVID-19, the lives impacted by interrelated factors, such as GBV, can be overlooked.       This narrative leverages learnings from the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to inform and strengthen ongoing responses related to GBV and COVID-19 within humanitarian settings.       For both Ebola and COVID-19, response efforts have overlooked the life-saving nature of GBV services. These services, including one-stop crisis centres and safe spaces, are vulnerable to cessation when health service providers attempt to prevent and control the spread of infectious disease without incorporating a gender-sensitive lens.       A critical opportunity to integrate women within response planning is through local women's organisations which are already embedded in local communities.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2059-7908",
doi="10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004194",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004194"
}