STRIVE Tackling the structural drivers of HIV

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Little attention has been given to the issue of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the lives of sex workers. Samvedana Plus is a multi-level intervention working with female sex workers, their intimate partners and communities to reduce IPV and increase condom use within intimate relationships of sex workers in Northern Karnataka, India.

In this STRIVE Learning Lab, Lucy Platt (Associate Professor in Public Health Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Prakash Javalkar (Senior Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation at Karnataka Health Promotion Trust) present key findings from the trial and share an interpretation of the results.

Related resources:

• Masculinities, gender norms and intimate partner violence affecting female sex workers
• Samvedana Plus: Reducing Violence and Increasing Condom Use in the Intimate Partnerships of Female Sex Workers in Bagalkote District, North Karnataka, South India
• Uncovering the roots of intimate partner violence