Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on women and children: a Zimbabwean case study.

ABSTRACT: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed significant health policy challenges, particularly for low-income countries, where policymakers faced both direct threats from the virus and social and economic harm owing to lockdown measures. We present a holistic contextualized case study of the direct and indirect impacts on women and children, highlighting disparities across socioeconomic, age, and gender groups. We utilized multiple data sources, including primary and secondary data from 28 in-depth interviews, six focus group discussions, and 40 household interviews, as well as data from government reports, District Health Information Software version 2 (DHIS2), and published research. A conceptual framework was devised to hypothesize causal pathways and guide the analysis of results. Th

SUBMITTER: Taruvinga T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12631412 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature