April 04, 2024
In Health News Circle, “Dr. Deepshikha Batheja (Economist and Research Fellow, One Health Trust) said, ‘Gender inequities when combined with other power hierarchies, such as caste, can cause differences in vulnerability to drug-resistant infections among different genders and social groups. Climate change further amplifies existing gender-based inequities in health, antimicrobial usage, and resistance. The workshop on gender and AMR (and its intersection with caste and climate change in India) is the first step to exploring the linkages between these complex issues and is a call-to-action to build evidence on sociocultural drivers of resistance worldwide and to inform sound public health policy which can mitigate the spread of AMR.'”
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