Gender
- Using Vignettes to Gain Insights Into Social Norms Related to Voluntary Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence in South Sudan
Social norms in South Sudan facilitate or obstruct the use of family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) services. Understanding these social norms is essential to implementing effective interventions to address barriers to accessing and using FP/RH services.
- Risk for Severe Intimate Partner Violence in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements: Tailoring the Danger Assessment to Kenya
Although a tailored 16-item weighted danger assessment may be valuable for research purposes, the unweighted 16-item Kenya-Danger Assessment is most valuable for implementation among practitioners working directly with intimate partner violence survivors, given simplicity for field implementation.
- Using Responsive Feedback in Scaling a Gender Norms-Shifting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Responsive feedback mechanisms—especially a culture of learning among donors, researchers, and implementers—facilitated timely adaptations and scale-up efforts of an adolescent sexual and reproductive health program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Measuring Effects of Counseling to Increase Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adherence and Partner Support in South Africa Using the Healthy Relationship Assessment Tool
Authors examined the effectiveness of the Healthy Relationship Assessment Tool to guide counselors in supporting women to address relationship-related challenges to pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence and measured women's score changes after counseling over time.
- Expanding the Role of Women in Vector Control: Case Studies From Madagascar, Rwanda, and Zambia
We present effective and replicable strategies to integrate women into vector control that provide paid employment opportunities and enhance economic empowerment while strengthening vector control operations.
- A Participatory Comic Book Workshop to Improve Youth-Friendly Post-Rape Care in a Humanitarian Context in Uganda: A Case Study
Participatory comic books offer a novel approach to strengthening health care providers’ understanding of refugee youth’s post-rape care needs and can be embedded in provider training in humanitarian contexts.
- Bottlenecks and Solutions During Implementation of the DREAMS Program for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Namibia
We analyze implementation bottlenecks experienced in the DREAMS program in Namibia that can provide valuable insights and suggest ways to anticipate and overcome these challenges when managing HIV and gender-based violence prevention programs for adolescent girls and young women.
- Qualitative Examination of the Role and Influence of Mothers-in-Law on Young Married Couples’ Family Planning in Rural Maharashtra, India
Mothers-in-law (MILs) in India hold influential norms that can compromise the reproductive autonomy of their daughters-in-law. Family planning interventions should address MILs’ attitudes and involvement in reproductive decision making.
- Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia’s Somali Region: A Qualitative Process Evaluation
We share lessons learned from a project to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services among internally displaced persons in Somali region, Ethiopia.
- Locked Down: Experiences of Domestic Violence in Central India
Mandatory lockdowns to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have led to increased reports of domestic violence experienced by women globally. Because health care workers focus on the pandemic response, women who experience domestic violence may not seek help and may remain a neglected population.