Improving health with programmatic, legal, and policy approaches to reduce gender inequality and change restrictive gender norms

J Heymann, JK Levy, B Bose, V Ríos-Salas… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Evidence that gender inequalities and restrictive norms adversely affect health is extensive;
however, far less research has focused on testing solutions. We first comprehensively …

Burden of HIV among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Baral, C Beyrer, K Muessig, T Poteat… - The Lancet infectious …, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Female sex workers are a population who are at heightened risk of HIV
infection secondary to biological, behavioural, and structural risk factors. However, three …

Can self-help group programs improve women's empowerment? A systematic review

C Brody, TD Hoop, M Vojtkova, R Warnock… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This mixed-methods systematic review focuses on the impact of women's self-help groups
(SHGs) on women's economic, social, psychological, and political empowerment. Both …

Economic self‐help group programs for improving women's empowerment: A systematic review

C Brody, T De Hoop, M Vojtkova… - Campbell Systematic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness of women's economic self‐help
groups (ESHG) on individual women empowerment in low‐and middle‐income countries. It …

Identifying evidence of effectiveness in the co-creation of research: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the international healthcare literature

K Halvorsrud, J Kucharska, K Adlington… - Journal of public …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background To investigate and address the evidence gap on the effectiveness of co-
creation/production in international health research. Methods An initial systematic search of …

[HTML][HTML] Social networks, mobility, and political participation: The potential for women's self-help groups to improve access and use of public entitlement schemes in …

N Kumar, K Raghunathan, A Arrieta, A Jilani… - World …, 2019 - Elsevier
Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social,
political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. Although a …

Providing comprehensive health services for young key populations: needs, barriers and gaps

S Delany‐Moretlwe, FM Cowan, J Busza… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Adolescence is a time of physical, emotional and social transitions that have
implications for health. In addition to being at high risk for HIV, young key populations (YKP) …

“The prostitution problem”: Claims, evidence, and policy outcomes

C Benoit, M Smith, M Jansson, P Healey… - Archives of sexual …, 2019 - Springer
Prostitution, payment for the exchange of sexual services, is deemed a major social problem
in most countries around the world today, with little to no consensus on how to address it. In …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of financial inclusion in low‐and middle‐income countries: A systematic review of reviews

M Duvendack, P Mader - Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A wide range of financial inclusion programmes seek to increase poor people's access to
financial services to enhance the welfare of poor and low‐income households in low‐and …

Community empowerment among female sex workers is an effective HIV prevention intervention: a systematic review of the peer-reviewed evidence from low-and …

DL Kerrigan, VA Fonner, S Stromdahl, CE Kennedy - AIDS and Behavior, 2013 - Springer
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of community empowerment
interventions for HIV prevention among sex workers in low-and middle-income countries …