Evaluation of Stepping Stones as a tool for changing knowledge attitudes and behaviours associated with gender relationships and HIV risk in Karnataka India

摘要

BackgroundStepping Stones training aims to help individuals explore sexual relationships and recognize gender inequalities, the structural drivers of the HIV epidemic, in order to understand risk behaviours and to seek solutions to factors that increase HIV vulnerability. Despite earlier studies suggesting the success of Stepping Stones, little data exist to show diffusion to trainees' social networks or the wider community.