Impact of DREAMS Interventions on Attitudes towards Gender Norms among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Findings from a Prospective Cohort in Kenya comminit.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comminit.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
"Given the high vulnerability to HIV acquisition for the adolescent population, and the evidence linking gender norms to HIV acquisition and current and future programming designed to modify norms, it is important to understand the measurement properties of the GEMS instrument for this population."
"Given the role of husbands gender ideology in women s contraceptive use, the CHARM intervention represents a promising approach for challenging root causes of women s unmet need for contraception."
Alcohol, sexist attitudes combine to increase male violence towards women, finds study ANI | Updated: Apr 29, 2021 07:28 IST
Washington [US], April 29 (ANI): In a study of men in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), heavy drinking males were more likely to commit violence against their wives and girlfriends (intimate partner violence, or IPV) if they held sexist rather than egalitarian attitudes about women.
Researchers have long known that problem drinking increases a man s likelihood of being violent towards his wife or girlfriend, but a new study published today by the scientific journal Addiction suggests that this relationship between drinking and violence is also affected by the man s attitude toward women s equality; that is, toxic masculinity also plays a role.