TITLE: Girls Left Behind: Redirecting HIV Interventions toward the Most
Vulnerable
AUTHOR: J. Bruce
DATE: 2007
PUBLISHER: The Population Council
This four-page brief discusses the major factors that place girls at risk of
HIV infection: social isolation, absence from school, child marriage, unsafe
sex, and pressure to provide productive labor. The document offers suggestions
on better reaching girls, including targeting areas with high concentrations of
girls, increasing adolescent girls’ attendance in school, delaying marriage,
supporting girls-only spaces, mentoring, and livelihoods initiatives.
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