Socia Norms in Relation to Gender and SRHR
Understanding how social norms and values, cultural, religious, and societal beliefs shape gender roles, SRHR knowledge, access, and behaviors

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Areas of focus
- Abortion and contraception
- Adolescents and gender identity
- Gender based violence (GBV)
- Men who have sex with Men (MSM)
- Emergency obstetric care
List of Research Projects
- Abortion and Contraceptive Stigma in Kenya – A Quasi Experimental Evaluation Study (Kenya)
For more information contact: Marlene Makenzius - Adolescent's perspectives of sexual wellbeing and consent (Uganda, Ecuador)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - Arabic speaking migrants views on sex education in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - Capacity-building through a Cluster Randomized Trial -- A Pre- and Post-Test Intervention to Prevent Abortion and Contraceptive-use Stigma among Health Care Providers, Teachers and Students in Kenya (Kenya)
For more information contact: Marlene Makenzius - Choice and use of contraception with special focus on youth and migrant women (Sweden)
For more information contact: Kristina Gemzell Danielsson - CTEST: Förbättra unga svenska män hälso- och sjukvård användning för Chlamydia trachomatis infektion upptäckt och behandling. Hur kan vi göra det? (Sweden)
For more information contact: Mariano Salazar - Digitalisation of youth clinics in Sweden -access to care during COVID19 (Sweden)
For more information contact: Anna Nielsen - EXPLORE 4 ACTION Improving sexual and reproductive health among early adolescents in Indonesia (Indonesia)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - EBA - SRHR Policy, aid and norms and values on gender (WVS) - three country EBA evaluation (Kenya)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - Effectiveness of online HIV prevention intervention among MSM in Vietnam (Vietnam)
For more information contact: Anna Thorson - GBV in South Africa Buddy Study (South Africa)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - HPV , HIV and anal cancer lesions
- For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström
- Hur förbättrar vi unga mäns sexuella och psykiska hälsa? Ett implementeringsprojekt bland unga manliga migranter i Stockholms län (Sweden)
For more information contact: Mariano Salazar - IMPROVE – Promoting equitable reproductive health: IMplementing best practice postpartum contraceptive services through a quality imPROVEment initiative for and with immigrant women in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - I-Share ANSER study (Sweden + 30 other countries)
- IPV and sexual violence against women in Nepal (Nepal)
For more information contact: Keshab Deuba - Maskuliniteter och våld mot kvinnor bland ungdomar: Identifiera diskurser och utveckla strategier för förändring med hjälp av en blandad metod (Sweden)
For more information contact: Mariano Salazar - Migrants - mental health in relation to SRHR and risk behaviours in young migrants in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Migrants - sexual and reproductive health and rights in relation to norms, HIV and risk behaviours in young migrants in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Point of care testing for viral load among youth living with HIV- EA-PoC EDCTP (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Post-abortion care and contraceptive counselling by midlevel providers and physicians. Facility based studies in Western Kenya (Kenya)
For more information contact: Marlene Makenzius - Preventing unwanted pregnancy and improving post-abortion care among young people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - community and facility based studies (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
For more information contact: Elisabeth Faxelid - Scaling up low-cost technology for improved intrapartum fetal surveillance and neonatal resuscitation in Nepal (SUSTAIN) (Nepal)
For more information contact: Helena Litorp - Sexual and Reproductive health and right and HIV services uptake among migrants in Sweden (Sweden)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Measuring Values and Norms to Guide Swedish Development Cooperation.
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Sida collaboration - contraceptive use among youth in Uganda (Uganda)
For more information contact: Elin Larsson - The impact of the Zika virus epidemic on coping and reproductive plans among young couples in Colombia (Colombia)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - Ujamaa – reducing genderbased violence in Kenya (Kenya)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - Ujamaa – reducing gender-based violence in Malawi (Malawi)
For more information contact: Anna Kågesten - World values Survey. Norms and values on gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa (Nigeria, Egypt, Zimbabwe, possibly Kenya and Rwanda)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström - World Values Survey. Norms and values on gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and women's economic empowerment (WEE) (India)
For more information contact: Anna Mia Ekström