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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
Increased employment opportunities, microfinance, or small-scale income-generating activities can reduce behavior that increases HIV risk, particularly among young people.*
Promoting Women’s Employment, Income and Livelihood Opportunities
4 studies Gray II, IIIb HIV testing, Republic of Congo, condoms, employment, microfinance, risk behavior, sex behavior, training programs, youth Haiti, South Africa
Increased employment opportunities, microfinance, or small-scale income generating activities can reduce risky behavior – particularly among young people. [See %{s:63}]
Mitigating Risk
1 study Gray II microfinance, sex behavior, training Zimbabwe
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
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)...
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
Strengthening the Enabling Environment
In order for HIV and/or AIDS interventions for women and girls to succeed, factors beyond the health services need to be addressed through multisectoral interventions. These environmental factors include gender norms that guide how girls and boys grow to be women and men, legal norms that confer or withhold rights for women and girls, access to education, income, levels of tolerance for violenc...
Home- and community-based antiretroviral treatment may be effective, but attention must be paid to potential effects of stigma and discrimination. [See also %{c:21}]
Provision and Access
5 studies Gray II, IIIa, IIIb community-based care, home-based care, treatment Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda