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Promoting more gender-equitable norms and behaviors among young men as an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy
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InfoShare Partner: Horizons Program
Publication Date: April 2006
Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper
Topics: Adolescents/youth, Behavior change interventions, Gender, HIV/AIDS, general, HIV/AIDS prevention, Population growth/trends, Sexual health/STIs
Region: Latin America/Caribbean
Language: English
File Size: 376 KB
File Format: Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

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Few interventions to promote gender-equitable behavior among young men have been systematically implemented or evaluated, and relatively little is known about how best to measure changes in gender norms and their effect on HIV/STI protective and risk behaviors. To address these gaps, the Horizons
Program and Instituto Promundo, with support from USAID, SSL International, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and JohnSnowBrasil, examined the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve young men’s attitudes toward gender norms and to reduce HIV/STI risk.