"Health promotion and communication targeting family planning are essential in the region as this is still an area of high unmet family planning need and endemic ZIKV."
".appear promising regarding their expected impact on provider behaviors and client outcomes." Effective client-provider interactions are considered essential for consistent demand and uptake of family planning (FP) services.
"Societal-level gender norm shifts may create enabling environments for interventions to find new traction for violence and HIV-related behavior change." Experience shows that gender inequities must be addressed for HIV and intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention efforts to be successful.
Pettifor, Julien); University of the Witwatersrand (
Pettifor, Lippman, Chola, Wagner, Hove, Twine, Gómez-Olivé, Kabudula, Masilela, Kahn); University of California San Francisco (
Lippman, Leddy, West, Dufour); Sonke Gender Justice (
Peacock, Mathebula, Rebombo, Pino); Promundo (
Peacock); University of Cape Town School of Public Health (
Peacock); independent consultant (
Rebombo) The study demonstrated that shifts in views toward gender can be fostered in a meaningful way at the community level, and that such shifts may also provide an important boost at the individual level. Further, decreases in IPV [intimate partner violence] could be a path to testing for women and men. In the global HIV field, policy and programme discussions increasingly recognise the importance of addressing harmful gender norms across the HIV care continuum. This Project SOAR (Supporting Operational AIDS Research) report summarises findings from a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Tsima ra