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Creating a sense of community, empowerment and leadership among sex workers can help support effective HIV prevention.
Female Sex Workers
6 studies Gray II, IIIb, V Armenia, HIV testing, community organizing, condoms, empowerment, peer education, prevention, sex workers, violence India, Kenya
Empowerment training for adolescent girls can increase skills to confront sexual assaults. [See %{s:59}]
Mitigating Risk
Pill counts and pillbox organizers increase adherence and are a low-technology empowerment tool.
Adherence and Support
3 studies Gray IIIb adherence, pill counts, pillbox organizers, treatment Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investment in women’s groups, especially positive women’s networks, can result in policy engagement and change to better meet women’s health and human rights needs.
Promoting Women’s Leadership
3 studies Gray IIIb, V leadership, self-efficacy, training programs, women’s empowerment, youth Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Nepal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Community organizing and mobilization, including "know your rights" initiatives and engagement with customary leaders, can help women claim their legal rights and minimize the impact and further spread of HIV.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
12 studies Gray IIIb, IV, V community organizing, drug use, legal rights, peer education, peer support, property rights, sex work, training India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Promoting Women’s Employment, Income and Livelihood Opportunities
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
Women's economic dependence on men and unequal access to resources, including land and income-generating opportunities, increases the likelihood of women and girls engaging in a variety of unsafe sexual behaviors including transactional sex, coerced sex, earlier sexual debut, and multiple sexual partners, and thus increases their risk of becoming infected with HIV (Gillespie and Kadiyala, 2005)...
Providing community development projects, rather than a narrowly defined HIV/AIDS program, may reduce the stigma against OVC.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
2 studies Gray IV OVC, community-based care, stigma Kenya, Tanzania
Programs that provide community-wide cash transfers, microenterprise opportunities, old age pensions or other targeted financial and livelihood assistance can be effective in supporting orphans.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
6 studies Gray II, IV, V OVC, adolescents, community care, financial assistance, grandparents, microfinance, orphans, pensions, self-perception, sexual risk-taking Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
Mass media campaigns concerning gender equality as part of comprehensive and integrated interventions can increase HIV protective behaviors. [See also %{s:23} – many of the media interventions for young people promote equitable gender norms]
Transforming Gender Norms
2 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb STIs, communication, condoms, gender norms, self-perception, violence, youth Brazil, Nicaragua
Microfinance programs can lead to reduction in gender-based violence when integrated with participatory training on HIV, gender, and violence.
Addressing Violence Against Women
1 study Gray II gender norms, microfinance, self-perception, violence South Africa
Training others, such as men and young people, to provide voluntary home care assistance can ease the burden of home care for women.
Women and Girls
2 studies Gray IIIb community-based care, men, youth Zambia, Zimbabwe
Treating Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Prevention for Women
Worldwide, the burden of sexually transmitted infections in women is more than five times that in men (Sciarra, 2009). Multiple observational studies have found an association between STIs and HIV (Venkatesh et al., 2011b; Cohen and Eron, 2011; Mavedzenge et al., 2010b; Weber et al., 2010). A recent study found that the odds of acquiring HIV were 2.4 times higher in women with prior cervical HP...
Promoting gender equitable norms among adolescents can reduce HIV risk behavior.
Mitigating Risk
3 studies Gray I, IIIb Bolivia, adolescents, condoms, gender equality, gender norms, low- and middle-income countries, pregnancy, sex behavior, sex education, sexual partners Ecuador, South Africa, United States
Integrating legal education and services into health care settings can help ensure that women are able to secure their rights.
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
6 studies Gray IIIa, IV, V HIV-related discrimination, legal assistance, people who use drugs, post-exposure prophylaxis, property rights, rape, violence against women, wills Kenya, Ukraine, Zambia
Training for providers, along with access to the means of universal precautions, can reduce provider discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS. [See also %{c:25}]
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
6 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb HIV testing, Turkey, discrimination, providers, stigma, training, training programs China, India, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Vietnam
Community or school-based HIV education can reduce stigmatizing attitudes towards those living with HIV
Mitigating Risk
6 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb, V Lao PDR, adolescents, communication, education, knowledge, self-perception, sex education, sexual behavior, stigma China, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda
Female Sex Workers
Prevention for Key Affected Populations
Sex workers, whose work involves sexual relations with multiple partners, are a key group of women who need access to comprehensive sexual health services, including HIV prevention, treatment and care. Programs that enhance sex workers' ability to use condoms are also vitally important (Lafort et al., 2010; Pisani, 2008). Unprotected sex with multiple partners puts sex workers at risk of HIV ac...
Community-based interventions (including media) that provide accurate information about HIV transmission can significantly reduce HIV stigma and discrimination.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
7 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb, IV HIV testing, discrimination, education, knowledge, mass media, microfinance, stigma China, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam
Comprehensive prevention programs that include components such as peer education, medical services, and support groups, can be effective in enabling sex workers to adopt safer sex practices.
Female Sex Workers
5 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb HIV testing, STIs, community organizing, community outreach, condom use, condoms, peer education, risk reduction, sex workers China, India
Communication between adults and young people about reproductive health information can increase protective behaviors.
Mitigating Risk
6 studies Gray IIIa, IIIb adolescents, adults, communication, condom use, parents, sexuality Cameroon, South Africa, Tanzania