Gender norms and power dynamics play a key role in HIV service delivery and whether or not individuals can access services and practice protective behaviors. This brief covers the approaches Project SOAR has used to integrate gender into their research and how those approaches effectively engage men, women, boys, and girls in HIV prevention and care.Read More
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Senegal’s New Roadmap for a Gender Transformative Human Resource Management Policy
Female health workers in Senegal juggle full-time jobs—often to posts far from home--and family duties. These responsibilities can exacerbate interpersonal and family conflict and negatively impact the services they provide to their clients. The Senegal Ministry of Health and Social Affairs recognizes the need to be more responsive to gender inequality, including violence and discrimination, in the workplace, and aims to integrate gender equality in the health sector’s human resources management.Read More
Essential Considerations for Engaging Men and Boys for Improved Family Planning Outcomes
This new resource provides a rationale for why men and boys should be engaged in family planning (FP) efforts in cooperative ways that improve FP outcomes and facilitate women and girls’ agency. It provides a framework for implementing male engagement in FP programming that focuses on transforming inequitable gender norms while engaging men as users, supportive partners, and agents of change. Read More
Guidance on Ethical Considerations in Planning and Reviewing Research Studies on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Adolescents
The participation of adolescents, ages 10 to 18, in health research poses legal and ethical challenges, particularly when the research focuses on sexual and reproductive health. This document highlights some of these challenges and outlines how they may be addressed.Read More
Bias in Contraceptive Provision to Young Women Among Private Health Care Providers in South West Nigeria
Health care providers' biases regarding the provision of contraceptives to adolescent and young adult women may restrict women's access to contraceptive methods and affect quality of care. This article encourages interventions that address underlying sociocultural beliefs that create a barrier to proper reproductive health care.Read More
Research Publications: FGM/C and Its Links to HIV, Fistula, and Early/Child Marriage
Evidence to End FGM/C is a research program to help end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within one generation. The program examined FGM/C and its association with HIV, fistula, and early/child marriage. The findings are documented in a set of six research reports and three evidence briefs.Read More
