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Understanding the experiences and resilient practices of adolescents and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
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posted on 2021-07-08, 20:12 authored by Juan Carlos Rivillas García, Diana Moreno, Rocío Murad-Rivera, Christian Jimenez, Angela Cifuentes, Daniela Roldan, Danny RiveraDanny Rivera, Francy Milena Parra, Nicolás Giraldo Chica, Camila VeraCamila VeraThe COVID-19 pandemic presents a health crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and an economic crisis with
predicted long-lasting impacts, especially for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls
have unique health needs, but during health pandemics such as COVID-19 they are less likely to have
access to quality essential health information, products and services, or insurance coverage for routine
and face paying catastrophic health costs, especially in rural and marginalized communities. This is
compounded by multiple or intersecting inequalities, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability,
age, geographic location, and sexual orientation, among others. Despite the concerted collective actions,
there is still a lack of information about the status of women, adolescents and youth, including information
about how gender inequalities have been exacerbated by the crisis. Much more needs to be done in terms
of global and national advocacy and policy responses to give voice to the lived realities of women and
adolescents.
Promalia´s study, “Estudio Solidaridad”, established that out of the people between the ages of 18 and
29 years: 23% of the women and 21% of the men lost their jobs during the pandemic; 19% of the women
and 24% of the men are worried that some form of domestic violence or home abuse may present itself
during the quarantine; 18% of the women and 28% of the men have witnessed racist or xenophobe
attitudes toward migrants; 16% of the women and 14% of the men have fallen ill with some type of mental
health disease such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or loss of sleep; 24% of the women and 15% of
the men have experienced some type of ear, nose or throat problems; 85% of the women and 75% of the
men are worried that if someone in their family might has a medical emergency during the pandemic,
they will not be able to receive care.
