Gender equity and mosquito-borne diseases: approach from the humanities

Abstract

The article offers a vision of how gender equality is related to diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, from the perspective of the object of study, within the framework of the Humanities. The authors critically review the plurality of concepts, the scope and limits around "gender equity" to describe the persistence of dissent regarding the consensus around this definition. The article exposes the scenario set by the emergence of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes today. The authors' analysis contains the links, connections and common logic of articulation and development on the power of action (praxis) of gender equity, within the framework of these diseases, to transform discriminatory experiences from the perspective of the humanities. . They conclude that gender equality becomes an urgent and necessary need for the prevention, control and effective management of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, since it is essential to transform the conditions of vulnerability of girls and women, needing to transform human nature in pursuit of introduce expert criteria from the humanities to introduce cultural changes and in the ways of thinking, feeling and acting of people and of humanity as a whole.