Promoting Women’s Employment, Income and Livelihood Opportunities
1. Expansion and scaling up of interventions promoting economic opportunities for women are needed to increase their ability to refuse unsafe sex. Studies found that lack of income and jobs forced women to sell sex to survive, placing them at risk of HIV acquisition.
Gap noted, for example, in Vietnam (Phinney, 2008); Brazil (Hebling and Guimaraes, 2004); and South Africa (Susser and Stein, 2000).
Gap noted, for example, in Vietnam (Phinney, 2008); Brazil (Hebling and Guimaraes, 2004); and South Africa (Susser and Stein, 2000).