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Successful efforts to increase educational attainment for girls, particularly to secondary school, must be scaled up. [See also %{s:73}] Studies and surveys found that in some regions girls lag behind boys in educational attainment.
Advancing Education
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Interventions are needed for school children that suffer from violence on the way to or at school. [See also %{s:59}] Studies found that girls suffer from violence both on the way and at school.
Advancing Education
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Teachers need increased training and clear educational policies regarding sexuality education to effectively provide HIV education. A study found that teachers did not have adequate training and support to provide HIV education; students preferred health personnel to provide AIDS education and that the Ministry of Education did not have clear policies on what can be taught.
Mitigating Risk
1 study
Non-discriminatory education sector policies on HIV are needed, with regular reviews, updates and implementation. Practices that require disclosure of HIV status for access to education should be prohibited and confidentiality policies are needed.
Mitigating Risk
1 study
Clear policies and legislation supporting access to information and sexuality education are needed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission among young people. Studies found that sex education was lacking, particularly among street children who are at high risk of HIV acquisition.
Mitigating Risk
1 study
Interventions are needed to bring men and women, youth and parents together to focus on the positive aspects of sexuality. Studies found sexual education focuses on disease, burdening girls with prohibitions, yet neglecting boys.
Mitigating Risk
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Laws prohibiting discrimination against those who are living with HIV in employment, housing, health and social services and education need to be implemented and more thoroughly evaluated. A study found that women feared losing their homes if found to be living with HIV. [See %{s:67}]
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
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Judicial action, legislation, and training on legal rights can protect people living with HIV from discrimination. Studies found that people reported being denied housing or being evicted for testing HIV-positive but that peer education on legal rights may increase protect people from discrimination. [See also %{s:61}]
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
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Interventions are urgently needed to help girls enroll (and stay) in school. [See also %{s:65}] Studies found that girls affected by HIV are more likely to be out of school, despite the protective factor of education in reducing the likelihood of HIV acquisition.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
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Efforts are needed to educate youth about sexual diversity in order to reduce stigma and discrimination. One study found that in no country in Latin America or the Caribbean was there any school-based sexuality initiatives that discussed sexual diversity. Current efforts are underway by Promundo (Greene, 2012b).
Transgender Women and Men
1 study
Sex education and condom promotion programs need to take into account the different motivations among young men and women for engaging in unsafe sex. Studies found that boys complained about reduced sensation with condoms to cover their fear of losing their erection when putting on a condom; girls believed that unsafe sex proved their love and trust in their partner
Mitigating Risk
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Further efforts are needed to educate families about HIV transmission so that infants are not abandoned. [See also %{s:73}] A study found that families forced HIV-positive women to abandon their infants due to erroneous fears that the infants could transmit HIV.
Postpartum
1 study
Changes in strategies are needed for efforts that stigmatize sex workers and force mandatory testing without confidentiality. Studies in China found that sex workers are mandated to be tested for HIV in re-education camps but many are not informed of their serostatus. Studies found that sex workers were sent to labor re-education camps, were publicly shamed as sex workers and IDUs and had low rates of testing, condom use and access to services. Studies also found that cities in China that detain sex workers have a higher mean HIV prevalence compared to cities that do not detain sex workers.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Interventions are needed to foster the involvement of HIV-positive women and promote cooperation between people living with HIV and AIDS and health care facilities, government and other agencies creating HIV-related programs and policies. Studies found that little cooperation existed between HIV-positive women and health facilities but that efforts have been underway to educate parliamentarians concerning HIV-positive women’s issues.
Promoting Women’s Leadership
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Women, especially married women, ongoing education about the role of condoms in preventing HIV acquisition and transmission, along with condom negotiation skills. A study found that women did not believe that condoms reduce the risk of HIV transmission. Another study found that married women of alcoholic men are aware of risks of contracting HIV from their husbands but reported difficulty in negotiating condom use as well as violence.
Male and Female Condom Use
1 study
Tailored interventions are urgently needed to provide greater availability and access to female condoms, along with education and training regarding their use as an additional option to male condoms. Studies found that women, including female sex workers, felt that they could avoid conflict and enhance their safe sex bargaining power by using a female condom when their sexual partner refused to use a male condom.
Male and Female Condom Use
1 study
Interventions for pregnant women and their partners to stay HIV-negative or reduce HIV transmission are needed. [See also %{c:11} and %{c:13}] Pregnancy is a time of high risk for HIV acquisition. Home-based partner education for couples with no reports of interpersonal violence may be more effective than clinic based interventions, especially when women can opt-out of disclosing their sero-status. A systematic review found that incident infection (i.e. recently acquired during pregnancy) resulted in up to a 15-fold higher risk of vertical transmission.
Antenatal Care - Treatment
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Effective programs (as described here) must be expanded to reach many more young people, especially young people who are most neglected such as very young adolescents, out-of-school youth, young people living with HIV, homeless and rural youth, as well as lesbian, MSM and transgender adolescents and other key populations. [See also %{s:73}] Studies found adolescent girls did not know that anal sex increased the risk of HIV acquisition, did not use condoms, and did not know that oral sex carries a low risk of HIV acquisition. Out-of school-youth were at high risk of early sexual debut. A scan of sex education curricula found that information on key aspects of sex such as information on condoms in addition to negative, fear-based curriculum were prevalent and that less than half of out of school youth were reached. In some countries, pornography was the principal source of information about sex and pornography often depicts condom-free sex and gender inequality, with men in domineering roles (Day, 2014).
Mitigating Risk
1 study