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Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, strongly entrenched patriarchal structures deprive young women of their agency and autonomy. This impedes their ability to safely navigate sexual experiences and engage in protective health behaviors, exacerbating their risk of acquiring HIV. Conducted in Uganda, this research paper explores the understudied relationship between limited autonomy and higher rates of HIV infection among young women.
The AIDS response has taught the world the importance of protecting human rights and promoting gender equality when fighting a disease. COVID-19 has amplified that lesson. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNAIDS has repeated the call that governments must protect human rights and prevent and address gender-based violence—an issue that is even more vital now that lockdowns are putting women and girls at an even higher risk of intimate…
The analysis demonstrated that adolescent girls and young women with the higher vulnerability profiles, including the impact of unequal gender norms, have increased odds of negative health outcomes and experiences. The analysis calls upon tailoring community-based HIV prevention efforts by deferentially targeting/tailoring interventions and health services for sub-populations in higher versus lower HIV vulnerability profiles. Across…
In sub-Saharan Africa, four out five new HIV infections among 15-19 year olds are in girls according to UNAIDS 2019 estimates. Surveys during 2011- 16 showed that more than half of rural women aged 15–24 in sub-Saharan Africa had been pregnant before their 18th birthday, and as recently as 2016, 40% of young women in sub-Saharan Africa and 30% in South Asia were married while still children. These examples highlight how gender power relations…
From Site: The SHELEARNS toolkit was developed collaboratively by ARASA and ATHENA to contribute to and strengthen sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) advocacy for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Eastern and Southern Africa. At the core of the toolkit and the #SheLearns programme is intersectional feminism that emphasises collaboration and a non-hierarchical environment. The toolkit was therefore developed with and for…