Promoting more gender-equitable norms and behaviors among young men as an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy

Abstract

Intervention 12 Group education intervention Identification and training of facilitators Recruitment and retention of young men Lifestyle social marketing campaign Development and Validation of the Gender-equitable Men (GEM) Scale Results

Parents, peers and pornography: the influence of formative sexual scripts on adult HIV sexual risk behaviour among Black men in the USA

“…They may have had more frequent exposure to positive, risk-lowering scripts that counterbalanced risk-enhancing influences. Alternatively, they (Jewkes et al 2008) and Brazil (Pulerwitz et al 2006). Future interventions targeting Black heterosexual men in the USA should incorporate similar approaches of encouraging men to challenge HIV-risk-promoting sexual scripts and masculinity norms.…”

Linkages Between Gender Equity and Intimate Partner Violence Among Urban Brazilian Youth

“…School-based programs incorporating skills-based approaches to conflict resolution may be one way to reach more youth early in their lives. Communitybased behavioral interventions, such as Program H, Stepping Stones, and the Men As Partners project, have already shown success in reducing male IPV perpetration by promoting gender equity and healthy relationship norms [17][18][19]. Scaling up these programs to reach youth in schools may be worthwhile in Brazil and globally.…”

“…Promoting gender equity may be a fruitful avenue for combating IPV, as interventions that address the context of youth's lives may be more effective in promoting risk reduction [14 -16]. Indeed, several interventions for men focused on gender equity have been successful at reducing levels of IPV perpetration [17][18][19].…”

‘We do the impossible’: women overcoming barriers to cervical cancer screening in rural Honduras – a positive deviance analysis

“…The report also concluded that integrated efforts that involve group education, community outreach and mobilisation and mass media are the most effective. Programme examples from Latin America include Instituto Promundo's Program H in Brazil, which was shown to effectively improve gender attitudes, condom use and self-reported STI symptoms through group SRH education and community-level media campaigns (Pulerwitz et al 2006). Stepping Stones, a programme that has been implemented worldwide (including a Spanish version in various Latin American countries, including Honduras), is a gender and sexuality curriculum that engages men and women in a series of workshops and community meetings to improve gender relations.…”