Empowering Families to Face Domestic Violence (Best practices that incorporate the Gender/Ethnicity Equality Perspective in Health)

As part of the International Women’s Day celebration, the Office of Gender, Ethnicity, and Health, and the Office of Health of Indigenous Populations of the Pan American Health Organization organized the second competition “Best practices that incorporate the Gender/Ethnicity Equality Perspective in Health”.

This competition aims to identify the experiences that better address the differential needs and opportunities for men and women in health, with emphasis on populations of ethnic/racial origin; and especially those experiences which try to transform individual and institutional attitudes in ord erto improve health.

From a total of 44 experiences from 19 countries in the Region, the experience Empowering families to face domestic violence was selected as one of two best practices.