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Ambulance Workers - Epidemic Control and Reinforcement of Health in Sierra Leone. Photo: Shantelle Spencer

Women health workers contribute $3 trillion to the global economy every year, but half of this work is unpaid and unrecognized. With the right investment, here are three ways women can make COVID-19 vaccine access a reality:

COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh, March 2021. Photo: Asafuzzaman Captain/CARE Bangladesh

In the global vaccine debate about who pays for doses, how much they cost, and how to ship them to lower income countries, the world is overlooking the most important factor: Who makes sure people get vaccines?

VSLA training, Women Lead in Emergencies, West Nile. CARE Uganda.

Women and girls are the hardest hit by conflict and disasters but often have little or no say in the design and delivery of humanitarian aid. CARE’s Women Lead in Emergencies approach is the first practical toolkit for frontline humanitarians to support women to take the lead in responding to crises that directly affect them and their communities.

Kalolaine Uechtritz Fainu, Papua New Guinea

Hear from journalists who show continuous engagement for topics & regions that don’t often make headlines:

Some images from some of the places listen on CARE's 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises in 2020 report

With all attention on COVID-19, what can we do to highlight other severe humanitarian crises affecting millions of people around the globe?

Farhana Mahmud is a senior project officer under the project Achieving Universal Access to SRH for Host Communities of Cox`s Bazar-Gender Based Violence (GBV).

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely have adverse and disproportionate effects on women and girls around the world, particularly in the rise of gender-based violence. CARE is working to prevent and respond to this issue in 24 countries.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, CARE International Secretary General, Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro outlines 5 critical steps governments and policy makers must take now to condemn gender-based violence to history.

Savings group Kyauta Mata in Niger. They were able to obtain funding to set up a small business for making masks. Ollivier Girard/CARE

While COVID-19 has meant adjusting our path, our work fighting poverty, saving lives in emergencies, and creating a better, more equal world continues. Here are some great examples of how we’ve adapted during the pandemic:

CARE distribution of hygiene kits to families in Haiti in response to COVID-19

Movement restrictions, economic crisis, plummeting incomes, the inability to get together in groups. These are all challenges that could make a savings group fail post-COVID-19. They could make it impossible to move forward. That’s not what’s happening.