• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Join the IGWG
  • News & Updates

IGWG HomepageIGWG

  • Priority Areas
    • Gender-Based Violence
    • Gender-Based Violence Task Force
    • Male Engagement
    • Male Engagement Task Force
    • Youth and Gender
  • Resources
    • Trainings
    • K4Health Gender and Health Toolkit
  • Events
    • Past Events
  • About the IGWG
    • Our Priority Areas
    • The Gender Integration Continuum
    • Get the Benefits of an IGWG membership
  • News & Updates
  • Join the IGWG
  • Contact
Home > News & Updates > Male Engagement > Rethinking Men’s and Boys’ Healthcare Access and Use

Rethinking Men’s and Boys’ Healthcare Access and Use

Posted on April 7, 2022

On March 17, 2022, the Interagency Gender Working Group’s Male Engagement Task Force (METF) hosted the webinar “Rethinking Men’s and Boys’ Healthcare Access and Use.”

The ability and willingness of men and boys to access health information, services, and products is influenced by wide-ranging factors, including social and gender norms and health system infrastructure. In this webinar, speakers showcased insights and learnings from global research and programming that supports men and boys in help-seeking behaviors and healthcare access and use across health areas, including family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH); HIV/AIDS; and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH). Speakers also highlighted how to address gender and power dynamics and other social and structural factors that influence men’s and boys’ access and use. More than 190 attendees learned about best, promising, and emerging practices to facilitate and support men and boys as they seek and receive healthcare, and how to apply these practices to their own work. Featured presentations highlighted work happening globally and specifically in Brazil, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Nigeria.

Event recording in English:

Event recording in French:

Marcos Nascimento (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) delivered opening remarks that provided global framing around how men’s health has been introduced and addressed over time and shared his experience with policy development and implementation in Brazil.

METF co-chairs Julie Pulerwitz (Population Council, Breakthrough RESEARCH) and Dominick Shattuck (Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Breakthrough ACTION) moderated the panels, detailed below:

Panel 1: Major developments and newest thinking around men’s and boys’ healthcare access and use (including programming elements that seek to shift gender norms and address power dynamics that hinder help-seeking)

  • Kathryn Dovel, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Partners in Hope-Malawi (PIH)
  • Stella Abah, WI-HER
  • Neeta Bhandari, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator/U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Panelists described their programmatic activities and answered questions that included:

  • If you had to prioritize, what are the top two or three overlooked barriers to men’s and boys’ healthcare use? How can we best overcome them?
  • How salient are the issues of gender norms and power relations for your programming? What recommendations do you have for the field in taking both into account?
  • Where do you think the field is going regarding men’s and boys’ healthcare access and use? What will it take to scale up effective practices and lessons learned at this point? 

Panel 2: Emerging innovations and practices for meeting men’s and boys’ needs and priorities around healthcare access and use

  • Ehi Adejo-Ogiri, Jhpiego
  • Charlotte Pahe, Population Services Kenya
  • Vitumbiko Namondwe and MacBain Mkandawire, Youth Net and Counselling (YONECO)
  • Dorcas Manortey, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ghana

Panelists described their programmatic activities and answered questions that included:

  • In what ways were masculine norms considered within the design of your programmatic approaches?
  • Anonymity was mentioned by several programs. How was privacy and anonymity articulated to the beneficiaries of your program? How important was privacy for men?

EXPLORE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Click on the links below to access the slides from the webinar and other related resources.

Webinar Slides

Do’s & Don’ts for Engaging Men and Boys (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish)

Brazil’s National Healthcare Policy for Men (PNAISH)

Getting to Equal: Men, Gender Equality, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Know, Care, Do: A Theory of Change for Engaging Men and Boys in Family Planning (English, French, Spanish)

Reflection and Action Tool: Integrating a Life Course Approach in Programming with Boys & Men for Gender Equality (English, French, Spanish)

Guide for Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Products and Services for Men

Filed Under: Male Engagement Tagged With: male engagement

Primary Sidebar

Recent News & Updates

IGWG GBV Task Force Meeting Report: Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes

September 30, 2022

On Aug. 31, 2022, the Interagency Gender Working Group’s (IGWG) Gender-Based Violence Task Force hosted “Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and … Read More about IGWG GBV Task Force Meeting Report: Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes

Recent Posts

  • IGWG GBV Task Force Meeting Report: Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes
  • Positive Youth Development in Health Programming: How Does Engaging Boys and Young Men Fit In? A Technical Marketplace
  • Infographic: How to Effectively Partner With Community Leaders in Gender Transformative Programming
  • September Gender Knowledge Exchange Event: Exploring Evaluation and Learning Methods in Community-Led Gender Transformative Programming
  • Exploring the Impact of Reproductive Coercion on Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes

Recent Comments

  • gateio on Using Technology to Combat GBV – New Innovations, New Opportunities
  • Create Account on Involving Everyone in Gender Equality by Synchronizing Gender Strategies
  • gateio on Weekly Wrap June 12 – 16, 2017
  • gateio on Translating Gender-Based Violence Policies Into Practice: Lessons Learned From Uganda
  • binance register on A Fireside Chat on Gender-based Violence with Mary Ellsberg and Lori Heise

Archives

  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • August 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • December 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • March 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • December 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • March 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • October 2010

Categories

  • Gender and COVID-19
  • Gender Equality
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Male Engagement
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Previous Article

2021 IGWG Plenary Meeting Report

Next Article

The 2022 IGWG Plenary: Promising Practices in Community-Led Gender Transformative Programming

Footer

Learn More

  • Male Engagement Task Force
  • Gender-based Violence Task Force
  • About the IGWG
  • Contact Us
  • Photo Credits

Follow us:

Join the IGWG

We send out two to three newsletters per week to over 2,600 members interested in the IGWG and other gender-related news.

Subscribe

* indicates required

Gender Continuum

Feedback Form
  • If you are comfortable doing so, please share your email address so we can follow up on your feedback.