Go Girls Initiative! conducted a literature review to better understand girls’ HIV vulnerability factors; the review highlighted poverty as a main HIV risk factor for adolescent girls. Specifically, the research showed that poorer girls were more likely to engage in transactional sex and sexual relationships with older men. Poverty also interacted with other risk factors, such as lack of recreational facilities, living on the street, and the unequal gender distribution of power. Therefore the focus of this report, and the programmatic recommendations, is on the issue of poverty.