This article documents a narrative review of evidence on intersections between violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW), including sexual violence by non-partners, with an emphasis on low and middle income countries.
Read more »Violence against children and violence against women has been recognized as a global public health and human rights problem. This document contains a summary of key information published in the article “Bridging the gaps: a global review of intersections of violence against women and violence against children”.
Read more »This report presents the preliminary findings from an ongoing project undertaken by 4Children that seeks to identify key opportunities to incorporate violence prevention and response interventions within priority PEPFAR Program Areas at clinical and community levels. The initial focus is on HIV testing and services (HTS) and pediatric care and treatment – a priority identified… View Article
Read more »Retention of patients in HIV care is incredibly important in the process of meeting the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, administering timely treatment, viral suppression, and to avoid AIDS-related deaths. The authors of this article conducted a randomized trial to conclude whether a text-messaging intervention improved retention during the first year of HIV care. The study was… View Article
Read more »Violence in childhood is an important development challenge for many countries. This article is the first to address the association globally between violence in childhood on educational outcomes. It incorporates systematic reviews and meta-analyses and identifies 67 and 43 studies respectively from 21 countries to decipher the relationship between different forms of violence in childhood… View Article
Read more »Violence against children is known to have adverse health outcomes and to be a risk factor for unhealthy behavior and subsequent violence toward others. This research takes the statistics on violence against children in South Africa and models the cost of inaction. The costing exercise gives some really useful economic arguments about all forms of… View Article
Read more »This study replicated research which was published in The Lancet in 2012: Effect of a cash transfer programme for schooling on prevalence of HIV and herpes simplex type 2 in Malawi: a cluster randomised trial. The replication included three objectives: perform a pure replication, a measurement and estimation analysis (MEA) and a theory of change… View Article
Read more »This study reviews existing literature on the definitions and components of social service systems and provides an analysis of data from key informants in the field of global social welfare. The purpose of the study was to propose system definitions and components which could help to move the field of global social welfare forward.
Read more »Recent studies reveal significant gaps in the HIV clinical cascade among young people as the global community pursues the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS 90–90–90 targets. This AIDS supplement was commissioned with the goal of informing program planners, researchers, policymakers, and funding agencies about the development and design of effective adolescent and… View Article
Read more »The past decade has witnessed tremendous global progress in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT), the leading cause of HIV infection in children. Effective interventions exist to virtually eliminate MTCT during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and breastfeeding (UNICEF 2016). Yet, MTCT remains a challenge; the majority of the estimated 150,000 new HIV infections in children in… View Article
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