Developed by Robert Connell, the theory of gender and power is a social structural theory
based on existing philosophical writings of sexual inequality and gender and power …

Theoretical models to date have fallen short of accounting for the alarming worldwide rates
of HIV infection in women through heterosexual contact. In this article, social dominance …

HIV risk and prevention research has failed to investigate adequately the effects of gender-
related factors such as relationship power, sexual communication, abuse, and gender roles …

Most HIV prevention literature portrays women as especially vulnerable to HIV infection
because of biological susceptibility and men's sexual power and privilege. Conversely …

Women's sexual health is directly affected by women's low status in society. This low status,
and subsequent lack of sexual autonomy, not only increases risk for sexual health problems …

The world is facing an unprecedented crisis as a result of HIV/AIDS. The global epidemic is
the most devastating in human history-shortening many lives and affecting the economic …

The focus of prevention of the heterosexual AIDS epidemic in the US has been on women.
The role of men in sexual decision making has not been emphasized in AIDS prevention …

The rates of HIV infection and AIDS cases among women in the United States have
increased significantly in the last decade. Thanks in large part to the work of advocacy …

Preliminary findings from the Women and AIDS program, a research grants program of the
International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC that supports 17 studies in …

This paper examines the shifting nature of contemporary epidemiological classifications in
the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It first looks at assumptions that guide a discourse of vulnerability …