Gender and Health Strategies for the development of National Governments and multilateral actors in the context of African Countries of Portuguese Official Language (PALOP)

Abstract

This research aims to carry out an analysis of the framework described in gender and health strategies for the development undertaken by National Governments and multilateral actors in the context of PALOP, in the last ten years, through the technique of systematizing information from concept maps. In this regard, on the one hand, there has been repeated consideration of women as a vulnerable group in relation to HIV/AIDS in the strategies and, on the other hand, it has been found that can coexist simultaneously the following three development approaches in the strategies analyzed: Welfare Approach linked to the Paradigm of Vulnerability; Women in Development Approach linked to the Women’s Health Approach; and Gender in Development Approach linked to Public Health Approach based on Gender