Can social network analysis help to include marginalised young women in structural support programmes in Botswana? A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Botswana, one fifth of the adult population is infected with HIV, with young women most at risk. Structural factors such as poverty, poor education, strong gender inequalities and gender violence render many young women unable to act on choices to protect themselves from HIV. A national trial is testing an intervention to assist young women to access government programs for returning to education, and improving livelihoods. Accessing marginalised young women (aged 16-29 and not in education, employment or training) through door-to-door recruitment has proved inefficient. We investigated social networks of young women to see if an approach based on an understanding of these networks could help with recruitment.

Methods

This mixed methods study used social networ

SUBMITTER: Loutfi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6339404 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature