'There is a lot I think that still needs to be studied to understand why it is that the virus seems to be killing more men than women.' ComfortLUNWomen ComfortLamptey UNWomen UnitedNations
, she revealed that the United Nations has already supported Nigerian government with $2 million dollars to fight COVID-19 while UN women have also provided palliative worth $100, 000 for distribution to poor households through the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and would still be providing the same support to 15 other states across the federation. She also spoke on why more men are dying from the pandemic than women and why the COVID-19 basket fund has also been put in place.
The initial support that we gave was $2,000, 000 and since then we have been working with the government and with some of the donor partners to establish a COVID-19 basket fund which is a consolidated fund where donors can provide a resource that through the UN, we can use to address some of the social-economic impacts and also continue to address the health challenges of the public.
The other important message that we hope that this is going to send is that, as we think through the recovery process, we must consistently be rebuilding businesses; we must ensure that women’s businesses get the right support. All the food procurement that the government is doing and that other partners are going to be doing, let a percentage of the procurement come through women-owned businesses because that is the way we can also help them to resuscitate and make it through this crisis.
If you look at the data globally, it’s not even; the UN women has a global data monitoring system called women count that has been looking at how the virus is affecting women and men differently across the world. It is true that across the world, men are dying more from the virus than women.
We know that in crisis, we shift resources away from other sectors to respond to the crisis. So, for sectors that mostly concern women such as women’s health, sexual reproductive health, maternal health- these sectors may be suffering because we are shifting all the resources to address the pandemic.
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