Strategies to reduce the vulnerability of women to HIV infection

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Dear members,

Re: /message/10176

I really appreciate the response obtained on my earlier positing on 28

April on- strategies to reduce vulnerabilities of women to HIV.

While many people appreciated the effort taken to document the contextual

factors that foster vulnerability of women to HIV, others have provided useful

resource links.

This research is significant as the rate of feminization of the

epidemic in India is increasing and more and more women who are not

involved in transactional sex are getting infected in India.

In other words, more and more women who mentioned that they are in a monogamous

sexual relationship with their husbands are getting infected. Further, there is

an understanding among programme managers and policy makers that increased

vulnerability will lead to increased risk taking behaviours.

Hence I would appreciate if members can share some more specific

experiences of programmes that has combined HIV prevention with

alternate income-generating skills and opportunities to women,

improving women’s sexual and reproductive health, violence against

women, improving life skills, micro credit programme, collectivization

of women, crisis interventions, trafficking etc.

Looking forward for your support.

Thanking you,

Sherry ph PhD.

e-mail: <sherryjoseph@...>