tailieunhanh - TRACHOMA: A Women’s Health Issue

In 2003, a man from one of the charity organizations referred Martha to Likii HIV’s Home based care group because the support she was getting was not sustainable. Lucy Njoki, a caregiver from Likii and also a woman living with HIV welcomed her and shared her story with other caregivers in the group. Caregivers contributed some money to rent a house for her and ensure that she received food daily. Caregivers also referred her to the comprehensive care unit at the district hospital where she resumed ART treatment. In 2004/2005, her health. | Overview TRACHOMA A Women s Health Issue Trachoma is a women s health issue whose time has come. Although few women s health advocates are familiar with this painful disfiguring and ultimately blinding disease and most women s health advocates do not think of trachoma as a women s health issue the epidemiological data are compelling. Trachoma disfigures and blinds three times as many women as men. Trachoma is a disease that is both preventable and treatable yet trachoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world responsible for blinding at least five million people three fourths of whom are women. This paper examines trachoma and women s health by reviewing and addressing the trachoma literature from a women s health perspective the burden of disease associated with trachoma the social and economic implications of blindness for women the relative importance of trachoma in women s health and the various interventions for controlling trachoma and how they might link programmatically with programs and services in the trachoma-endemic world. Global Alliance for Women s Health 1 Concepts of Women s Health Women s health is a concept that conjures up many meanings and agendas in different regions of the world among many different strata of women. Yet these differences do not discourage women from espousing and supporting women s health nor is there much of an interest on the part of women advocates for reducing the number of concerns. Generally speaking women s health is conceptually pragmatic -- that is women s health is generally thought to include all conditions diseases care and research that affects women either disproportionately or differently from In other words women s health is all-encompassing and all-inclusive relying for its internal logic on widely-shared beliefs that have mostly been confirmed Women s health until perhaps the later part of the 1990 s has been under-attended under-serviced and under-financed in nearly all countries of the