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This in-depth research report reveals differing perspectives between women and men when it comes to the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. In a first of its kind data collection, CARE surveyed more than 10,000 people, including 6,200 women and 4,000 men in more than 40 countries. The report reveals three major areas in which women are more negatively experiencing COVID-19: unemployment, lack of food, and a toll on their mental health.
AUTHOR(S) Sarah Y. Vinson; Randee J. Waldman
AUTHOR(S) Daniela Ritz; Georgina O’Hare; Melissa Burgess (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Claire Ji Hee Kim; Amado M. Padilla
AUTHOR(S) Xavier Bonal; Sheila González
AUTHOR(S) Claire Bynner; Maureen McBride; Sarah Weakley (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Benjamin Jones; Susan Woolfenden; Sandra Pengilly (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Ansgar Hudde; Natalie Nitsche
AUTHOR(S) Cecily L. Betz
AUTHOR(S) Emily M. Pang; Rachelle Sey; Theodore De Beritto
AUTHOR(S) Shafika Isaacs
AUTHOR(S) Silvia Guglielmi; Jennifer Seager; Khadija Mitu (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Nicola Jones; Agnieszka Małachowska; Silvia Guglielmi (et al.)
Unlike the H1N1 influenza virus, to which younger people were relatively more susceptible, and Ebola, where adolescents were at greater risk than younger children but at lower risk than the most-affected age group (35–44 years), the demographic burden of covid-19 is highly skewed towards older persons aged 70 and over. Age-disaggregated statistics suggest that adolescents are least likely to be hospitalised and to die from covid-19. Young people have typically been portrayed in the mainstream media as ‘part of the problem’ – as both vectors of the disease and as reluctant to adopt preventive measures, rather than as key actors to be proactively included in the emergency and recovery responses. As the spike in unemployment and predictions of global recession underline, Covid-19 is not only an unprecedented health crisis but also a profound economic and social one. This is the first in a series of briefs. It focuses on the short-term effects of covid-19 and associated lockdowns on adolescent girls and boys in LMICs. The next brief will focus on the effects of the pandemic six months after lockdowns.
UNICEF Innocenti's Children and COVID-19 Library is a database collecting research from around the world on COVID-19 and its impacts on children and adolescents.
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