Social protection is high on the HIV-prevention agenda for youth in sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding factors that shape gender attitudes in early adolescence globally: a mixed-methods systematic review
Early adolescence (ages 10–14) is a period of increased expectations for boys and girls to conform to socially constructed and often stereotypical norms that perpetuate gender inequalities.
Reducing intimate partner violence and increasing condom usage in the HIV/STI response: a facilitator's guide for training intimate partners of female sex workers
Research studies have shown a significant link between non condom use, HIV and gender-based violence.
Reducing intimate partner violence and increasing condom usage in the HIV/STI response: a facilitator's guide for training female sex workers
Research has shown a significant link between non-use of condoms, HIV and gender-based violence. Sex workers’ ability to negotiate condom use with intimate partners (IPs) is severely compromised by several factors that include their emotional and sometimes financial dependence on the partners, inequitable power relationships with their IPs, violence in their intimate relationships, social norms defining their acceptable behaviour and expectations around fidelity. These factors increase their vulnerability to HIV.
This guide is written to help facilitators cum counsellors to:
Global implementation of PrEP as part of combination HIV prevention – Unsolved challenges
A special JIAS supplement was launched at R4P in Chicago.
The Chavan Family
Parental support for education can make all the difference to a girl’s chance of education.
This film – 5 mins, 30 secs long – introduces the Chavan family. Although his own work as a stonemason is tough, Mr Chavan is determined to give his daughters the education they need to get better jobs. He has become a champion of his own daughters staying in school and encourages others to think differently too.
The Samata programme includes many different measures to encourage girls and their families. These include:
The Awadhi Family
A film about efforts to end discrimination against girls, as one family experiences them.
Before screening, you might want to ask the audience if it’s easier for a girl or a boy to complete secondary school – and why.
How can social norms be changed, to improve girls’ options in the future? This 7-minute film provides a useful introduction to discussions about:
Aarti and Bharati
Twin sisters experience the threat of under-age marriage.
Use this short video (4 mins, 30 secs) to start a discussion about:
- the often-hidden custom of child-marriage
- the power of social norms that can sustain or challenge harmful practices
- programmes and services, such as India’s Childline, to prevent abuses
Ask your audience some questions before screening the video. Ask, for example:
Reducing violence and increasing condom use in the intimate partnerships of female sex workers: study protocol for Samvedana Plus, a cluster randomised controlled trial in Karnataka state, south India
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Reducing violence and increasing condom use in the intimate partnerships of female sex workers: study protocol for Samvedana Plu
Female sex workers (FSWs) are at increased risk of HIV and STIs compared to women in the general population, and frequently experience violence in their working and domestic lives from a variety of perpetrators, which can enhance this risk. While progress has been made in addressing violence by police and clients, little work has been done to understand and prevent violence by intimate partners (IPs) among FSW populations.
Greentree II: Violence against Women and Girls, and HIV
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