Community Health clinic model for Agency in Relationships and Safer Microbicide Adherence (CHARISMA)

The project aims to identify improved approaches to measure and address the beneficial impacts and harmful social effects—particularly IPV—of microbicide use; to develop and pilot test the CHARISMA intervention designed to increase women’s agency to consistently and safely use microbicides and mitigate IPV; and to disseminate knowledge generated and promote uptake of promising practices for future microbicide and multipurpose prevention technology (MPT) implementation projects.
Countries: South Africa, potential scale-up in Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe