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October 21, 2019
The struggle to bring HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women is a central concern to anyone thinking about turning around the global epidemic.
The latest figures from UNAIDS show the pressing need to reach young women. But the challenge is daunting—stigma, gender-based violence and other forms of inequality persist as serious barriers to prevention.
To overcome these barriers, AVAC and CHAI’s Prevention Market Manager is exploring new strategies for understanding the needs of adolescent girls and young women through an approach known as human-centered design, or HCD.
In this episode of Px Pulse, we hear from AVACer Anabel Gomez about the HCD project she’s leading with partners in South Africa to chart a path that will better support a journey to HIV prevention. The research project known as Breaking the Cycle of Transmission involved extensive discussions with hundreds of girls and young women. We also hear from two members of the research team—Lesego Taule and Mpumi Mbethe—who helped lead these discussions in communities where HIV is epidemic.
And a program implementer for HIV prevention in South Africa, Anthony Ambrose of NACOSA, tells us how this research can be applied to programs and how it changed the way he thinks about HIV risk.
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Highlights
- NACOSA’s Anthony Ambrose on how well programs reach young women in South Africa today (5:43)
- AVAC’s Anabel Gomez talks about the HCD research, Breaking the Cycle of Transmission (7:19)
- South African Researchers Mpumi Mbethe and Lesego Taule on what needs to change (4:54)
- NACOSA’s Anthony Ambrose says the research changed how he thinks about risk (5:43)
Transcript
Additional Resources
- Webinar: Quantitative results of Breaking the Cycle of Transmission research – AVAC
- Webinar: Qualitative results of Breaking the Cycle of Transmission research – AVAC
- Creating Demand for HIV Prevention: AVAC Report 2018 Part 1 – AVAC
- JIAS Supplement - Reaching and Targeting More Effectively: The application of market segmentation to improve HIV prevention programmes – AVAC
- A collection of end user resources – PrEP Watch
- What Women (and Girls) Want: Key findings from a review of HIV prevention projects in sub-Saharan Africa – AVAC
- The Landscape for End User Research: Mapping and findings – AVAC/PMM
- Commitment to ethics in youth-powered program design – HCD Exchange
- How Can Design Contribute to Global Health? – Design for Health