Sexual risk among orphaned adolescents: is country-level HIV prevalence an important factor?
Previous studies from sub-Saharan Africa have found that orphans experience increased sexual risk compared to non-orphans.
Previous studies from sub-Saharan Africa have found that orphans experience increased sexual risk compared to non-orphans.
The purpose of this study was to investigate challenges facing headteachers in the implementation of AIDS education in secondary school curriculum in Busia, Bunyala and Samia Districts and find out how they were coping.
This paper - largely inspired by Colleen O'Manique's analysis in her article "Globalization and gendered vulnerabilities to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" - seeks to uncover some of the eff ects of the global political economy on women's vulnerability to HIV and AIDS
The purpose of www.whatworksforwomen.org is to compile and summarize the base of evidence to support successful interventions in HIV programming for women and girls.
The authors conducted a process evaluation of the 10-fold scale-up of an evaluated youth-friendly services intervention in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, in order to identify key facilitating and inhibitory factors from both user and provider perspectives.
Being young and female are two central aspects of vulnerability to HIV which intersect in the lives of adolescent girls.
Groups of men who have sex with men (MSM) are not uniform throughout the Southeast Asian region. As the groups vary, their need of health coverage, social acceptance and information varies. This Brief claims that design of policies, programs and advocacies must be tailored to the local context.
This report is based on research and interviews conducted by the Center between June 2009 and February 2010. The Center gathered the experiences of 59 women through a combination of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
The Symposium provided a platform for exchange of experience and for reviewing evidence on promising national approaches by the education sector to reach most-at-risk youth. The objectives were set as follows to: 1.
This report is about community-based HIV programs, i.e.