Women and girls between the ages of 15 to 24 are the population most vulnerable to HIV.
STRIVE and ICRW have collaborated on an infographic to explain structural factors that contribute to this vulnerability:
Infographic: Tackling the structural drivers of HIV
Women and girls between the ages of 15 to 24 are the population most vulnerable to HIV.
STRIVE and ICRW have collaborated on an infographic to explain structural factors that contribute to this vulnerability:
‘Festival of Love’: Sexual pleasure, agency and its meaning in the lives of sex workers
The link between sexual pleasure and agency is poorly articulated in a disease-centric and disease prevention approaches to HIV. This 2008 report from ICRW-ARO is based on a project that dealt with issues of sexual pleasure, agency and its meaning in the lives of sex workers. It also explores masculinity and men’s role in sex work by examining sex workers accounts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ clients and the varying masculinities they represent.
Unpacking sex trafficking in Andhra Pradesh, India
This study provides evidence of patterns of coercion, exploitation and sex trafficking in three study sites. It also situates and critiques government and non-government anti-trafficking responses.
The purpose of the study, conducted by ICRW-ARO, was to understand:
Innovative approaches to gender and food security
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Can development programmes use a combined approach to tackle multiple issues such as food security and gender inequality?
This issue of Insights, published by the Institute for Development Studies, focuses on the gender power dynamics of food production, consumption and governance.
It provides an interesting perspective on a range of transformative approaches that target food security and poverty reduction while enabling shifts in gender power relations.
Because I am a girl: Learning for life
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Critical report on the state of girls’ education and the barriers preventing access.
Research has shown that keeping girls in education can help to reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
This report, which is part of Plan’s annual State of the World’s Girls series, argues that despite improvements in primary education enrolment, there is a crisis in the quality of learning available to girls.
World response to AIDS needs new vigour
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STRIVE researchers advocate the need for a new economic argument for a sustained, effective, national and global commitment to ending AIDS.
The article, reproduced here in full, was written by Anna Vassall and Michelle Remme with Director of LSHTM, Peter Piot.
World Response to AIDS needs new vigour
Despite remarkable achievements and a wave of recent optimism, the stark truth is that the end of AIDS is not in sight.
Gender inequality and violence as critical enablers in the HIV response
How can interventions more effectively tackle women’s and girls’ vulnerability to HIV? In this presentation, given to mark World AIDS Day at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, STRIVE Research Director Professor Charlotte Watts introduces key structural drivers affecting women and girls, such as:
Interview with Prof Charlotte Watts for World AIDS Day 2012
Young people face particular vulnerabilities with respect to HIV, many not yet addressed in HIV responses. In this video interview for World AIDS Day 2012 at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, STRIVE Research Director Professor Charlotte Watts cites one example: the exchange of sex for material goods based not only on economic need but also on aspiration and ideas about social mobility.
Interview with Prof Charlotte Watts for World AIDS Day 2012
Young people face particular vulnerabilities with respect to HIV, many not yet addressed in HIV responses. In this video interview for World AIDS Day 2012 at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, STRIVE Research Director Professor Charlotte Watts cites one example: the exchange of sex for material goods based not only on economic need but also on aspiration and ideas about social mobility.
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