Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how vulnerabilities arising from physical impairments, age, widowhood, forced displacement due war or natural disasters and sexual orientation affect women’s microfinance-related entrepreneurial activities economic empowerment. Design/methodology/approach This paper a structured literature review uses preferred reporting items for systematic revie...

Violence against women plays a crucial and devastating role in increasing the risk to women of HIV infection. It is a key reason why women are more vulnerable to HIV infection than men. It is both a cause and a consequence of infection, and as such is a driving force behind the epidemic. The circumstances underlying the correlation between violence against women and HIV and AIDS are a complex w...

letter mothers’ health and life is constantly exposed to different risks such as the risk of accidents, injuries and poisoning, so some of mothers may lose their health and lives which is understood as social damage. various studies have found that in vulnerable groups of the society, women at the age of childbearing are the most susceptible group to deliberate suicidal poisoning

letter mothers’ health and life is constantly exposed to different risks such as the risk of accidents, injuries and poisoning, so some of mothers may lose their health and lives which is understood as social damage. various studies have found that in vulnerable groups of the society, women at the age of childbearing are the most susceptible group to deliberate suicidal poisoning

abstract background: vulnerable women are prone to sexually transmitted diseases due to their high-risk behaviors. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of self-care training program based on orem’s model on the behaviors leading to sexually transmitted diseases in vulnerable women. materials and methods: this field trial was initially conducted on 100 women covered under health ser...

Nayreen Daruwalla and colleagues describe the Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children, which serves clients coping with crisis and violence in the urban setting of Dharavi, Mumbai.