To provide health researchers with specific, useful and practical guidance to strengthen sensitivity around gender issues in research studies.

To strengthen competencies of Ministry of Health multidisciplinary personnel in understanding the role of gender as a social determinant of health, in intersectoral interventions, in health research and other health fields.

To reflect on the implementation of research and analyse the inclusion or not of a gender perspective in research.

To provide a set of methodological tools and examples for integrating a gender perspective in research

To provide a set of methodological tools and examples for integrating a gender perspective in research.

While gender inequality affects many health conditions and outcomes, nowhere is it more pronounced than in matters of sexuality and reproduction. Gender inequality influences the ability of women and girls to exercise control and autonomy when it comes to matters of their own sexuality (for example, choosing sexual partners, deciding when to have sex, refusing sex, engaging in safe sex) and reproduction (for example, deciding to or not to have children, using contraception and protecting themselves from sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV). Hence, programmes and policies to address the health of women and girls, particularly their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV status, must be informed by evidence and address gender inequality.

The aims of this course is that participants:
1- are familiar with sex-specific biological differences in the development, manifestation, and progression of diseases, as well as with their impact on diagnosis, treatment and clinical outcomes,
2- are aware of the socio-cultural gender differences in primary and secondary prevention as well as in health behaviour,
3- know the latest evidence on sex- and gender-specific issues in clinical practice and biomedical research,
4- are motivated to implement the knowledge gained from the CAS in their daily work.

This manual offers a session-based and case-based curriculum on how to promote gender equity and reproductive rights through the use of evidence, policy development and service delivery. The curriculum is founded on the premise that the development of workable reproductive health programmes calls for training that not only includes new technical skills, but faces head-on the challenge of changing approaches and perspectives. It aspires to transform health workers, managers and policy makers into active change agents committed to transformation of health systems.