Although a positive association is found between HIV prevalence and intimate partner violence, a causal interpretation … externality of the disease and encourage policy efforts to incorporate services for violence against women into existing HIV … is hard to establish due to the endogeneity of HIV prevalence. Using the distance from the origin of the virus as an …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

We investigate the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV among married women using Demographic … marriage, nor their risky sexual behavior, explains the link. Thus, it is not violence per se that drives the spread of HIV … higher HIV risk among violent men; neither women’s decreased ability to protect themselves from HIV transmission within …

development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide … time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting selfdirected and interpersonal violence higher … and recipients have so far neither recognized self-directed nor interpersonal violence as a major development issue …