5. Empowerment and HIV Risk Reduction among Sex Workers in Bangladesh

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Empowering Women for Health 1
5. Section One. Sociocultural, Educational, and Health Service Interventions as Tools of Empowerment
6. Introduction 19
7. 1. Taking Services to the Doorstep: Providing Rural Indian Women Greater Control over Their Fertility 29
8. 2. Obstetric Fistula in Kenya: A Holistic Model of Outreach, Treatment, and Reintegration 57
9. 3. Pathways to Choice: Delaying Age of Marriage through Girls’ Education in Northern Nigeria 72
10. 4. Early Empowerment: The Evolution and Practice of Girls’ “Boot Camps” in Kenya and Haiti 93
11. 5. Empowerment and HIV Risk Reduction among Sex Workers in Bangladesh 117
12. 6. Gender Roles in U.S. Women with HIV: Intersection with Psychological and Physical Health Outcomes 138
13. 7. Examining the Impact of a Masculinities-Based HIV Prevention and Antiviolence Program in Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa 159
14. Section Two. Structural (Legal/Policy, Economic) Interventions as Tools of Empowerment
15. Introduction 179
16. 8. Empowering Adolescent Girls and Women for Improved Sexual Health in Zimbabwe: Lessons Learned from a Combined Livelihoods and Life Skills Intervention (SHAZ!) 190
17. 9. Is Microfinance Coupled with Gender Training Empowering for Women? Lessons from the IMAGE Process Evaluation in Rural South Africa 210
18. 10. Older U.S. Women’s Economic Security, Health, and Empowerment: The Fight against Opponents of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid 232
19. 11. Women’s Health and Empowerment after the Decriminalization of Abortion in Mexico City 251
20. 12. Impact of a Grassroots Property Rights Program on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Kenya 267
21. 13. Land Tenure and Women’s Empowerment and Health: A Programmatic Evaluation of Structural Change in Nicaragua 291
22. Conclusions: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda for Women’s Empowerment and Health 308
23. List of Contributors 317
24. Index 325