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  Cash transfers for HIV prevention: considering their potential

  Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2013

  Cash transfers programmes are increasingly being recognised for their potential to reduce poverty and achieve other social goals, such as improved health and education. Evidence from Malawi and Tanzania suggests that cash transfers can impact HIV-related behaviours and outcomes and, therefore, could serve as an important component of HIV prevention efforts. 
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  Is Violence against Women Preventable? Findings from the SASA! Study summarized for general audiences

  Raising Voices, 2015

  This report showcases the findings from the SASA! study, a cluster randomized control trial (RCT) of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda.
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  The ‘One Man Can’ Model: community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa

  2015

  One of the main contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is shared social norms reinforcing restrictive masculine and feminine roles and inequitable gender relationships, which limit women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV while simultaneously putting social pressure on men to take on a range of sexual and health risks.
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  A review of interventions addressing structural drivers of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for sexual health programming

  Reproductive Health, 2014

  Young people particularly women are at increased risk of undesirable sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. Structural factors have been reported as driving some of these risks. Although several interventions have targeted some of the structural drivers for adolescent’s SRH risk, little has been done to consolidate such work.
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  Human rights and the HIV response: Eastern and Southern Africa region

  2015

  Key populations, specifically people who sell sex (PWSS), people who inject drugs (PWID) and lesbian, and gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people experience significant human rights violations which underpin the continued high HIV incidence in these populations.
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  Reflections on femininity, love and HIV: the story of 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls

  Center for Communication Programs, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2013

  4Play: Sex Tips for Girls was a television drama that brought a rare touch of glamour and a distinctly feminine sensibility to the HIV communication genre in South Africa.
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  Effectiveness of an integrated intimate partner violence and HIV prevention intervention in Rakai, Uganda: analysis of an intervention in an existing cluster randomised cohort

  The Lancet, 2015

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with HIV infection. This article aimed to assess whether provision of a combination of IPV prevention and HIV services would reduce IPV and HIV incidence in individuals enrolled in the Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS), Rakai, Uganda.
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  HIV-related discrimination among grade six Students in nine Southern African countries

  PLoS ONE, 2014

  HIV-related stigmatisation and discrimination by young children towards their peers have important consequences at the individual level and for our response to the epidemic, yet research on this area is limited.
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  HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, discrimination, and service accessibility among Africa’s youth: insights from a multi-country study

  Population Council, USA, 2015

  At the individual level, youth lack access to appropriate SRH [sexual and reproductive health] information and confidential, low-cost, and stigma-free SRH services.
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  Our time to be heard: stories giving voice to young people and their experience of HIV

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2015

  Produced by a network of citizen journalists around the world who report the HIV, health, and human rights stories affecting them and their communities, this collection of stories highlights the current challenges that young people are facing in the context of the HIV epidemic.

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