"The pandemic only gave visibility to what is invisible": a qualitative analysis of structural violence during COVID-19 and impacts on gender-based violence in Brazil

• Main Authors: Luissa Vahedi (Author), Samantha McNelly (Author), Nina Lukow (Author), Anna Carolina Fonseca (Author), Dorcas Erskine (Author), Catherine Poulton (Author), Lindsay Stark (Author), Ilana Seff (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic produced alarming rates of disease and mortality globally, yet few nations were as severely impacted as Brazil. The pandemic also exposed and exacerbated persistent forms of structural violence across Brazil, which complicated gender-based violence (GBV) pre...