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Research on structural change to prevent HIV

Social forces drive the HIV epidemic and block prevention efforts. STRIVE partners investigate how structural factors create vulnerability and what programmes work to tackle them.

Affiliated projects

SASA! Act now against violence

SASA! addresses the imbalance of power between women and men that underlies gender violence and HIV risk.

Drivers: Gender inequality and violence
Methods: Changing social norms
SASA community mobilisation

Guidelines for reducing HIV stigma in India

Globally, stigma and discrimination impede HIV prevention, testing and treatment efforts. ICRW's framework for India identifies key entry points for stigma-focused programming and measurement.

Drivers: Stigma and criminalization
Methods:

Phuza Wize: Creating safe drinking spaces

Phuza Wize is a campaign of STRIVE affiliate, Soul City, to reduce alcohol use and create safe drinking spaces in South Africa.

Drivers: Alcohol, Gender inequality and violence
Methods: Changing social norms
Phuza Wize: Creating safe drinking spaces

Reducing transactional sex among adolescent girls

Exchanging sex for gifts or goods has become a fairly common practice among young women in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Drivers: Gender inequality and violence, Poverty and livelihood options
Methods: Changing social norms, Measuring structural factors
Mwanza, Tanzania "rock city"

Community mobilisation among sex worker collectives

Community-based organisations of sex-workers are proving an effective forum for empowerment and HIV prevention in North Karnataka, India.

Drivers: Gender inequality and violence, Poverty and livelihood options, Stigma and criminalization
Methods: Measuring structural factors

Reducing excessive alcohol use and high-risk sex

Project addressing alcohol as a structural driver of HIV risk by intervening in alcohol’s ubiquitous availability in impoverished urban areas.

Drivers: Alcohol, Gender inequality and violence, Poverty and livelihood options
Methods: Changing social norms, Measuring structural factors
Addressing alcohol as a structural driver of HIV

Modelling the influence of structural factors

Multi-level statistical modelling has helped support the growth of a movement to address the social determinants of health.

Drivers: Alcohol, Gender inequality and violence, Poverty and livelihood options
Methods: Modelling
STRIVE research data

Swa Koteka: Cash transfers to tackle HIV among adolescents

How might cash payments reduce transactional sex, thereby reducing the risk of HIV and unwanted pregnancy among young girls? How do girls’ friendship networks affect their risk of acquiring HIV?

Drivers: Poverty and livelihood options
Methods: Costing interventions, Measuring structural factors
Swa Koteka Rural CCT South Africa

Parivartan: Coaching boys into men

Coaching boys into men to cultivate gender equality and reduce violence against women.

Drivers: Gender inequality and violence
Methods: Changing social norms
Parivartan changes gender norms through sports coaching
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Latest

  • SASA! An introduction
  • Photovoice: Using participatory photography in research
  • STRIVE and SASA! at the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2013

SASA! An introduction

Introducing SASA!, an innovative approach to mobilising communities to prevent violence against women and HIV.

Photovoice: Using participatory photography in research

Cathy Vaughan introduces the methodology of Photovoice through the example of a youth-focused project in Papua New Guinea.
Parallel event on preventing partner violence, Tue 5 March 2013

STRIVE and SASA! at the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2013

Charlotte Watts, Lori Michau and Tina Musuya present findings from SASA!

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