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Promoting and implementing
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Addressing
violence in HIV
testing and
counseling,
treatment and
care services
Socioeconomic
inequalities
(e.g. lack of access to
education for girls,
poverty, lack of access
to wage employment)
Social or community gender norms
and cultural practices that
promote inequalities
(e.g. tolerance of violence, male
authority over women, polygamy,
bride price, dowry, emphasis on
female purity and honor)
Gender discriminatory policies, laws
and services and poor
implementation of policies, laws, and
services that promote gender
equality (e.g. discriminatory family
laws and laws on inheritance)
Mens or male
partners experiences
(e.g. alcohol use, less
education, history of
childhood violence,
multiple sexual partners)
Unequal power in intimate
and family relationships
(e.g. reduced sexual,
economic and other
household decision-making
and negotiation, reduced
mobility for women)
Womens experiences
(e.g. history of childhood
violence, exposure to
early sex, less education,
lack of employment)
Increased risk of
violence
against women
Key Take Aways