Beyond Victims and Villains: Working with Communities to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Among Marginalized Young Women in Botswana

Young women in Botswana face high rates of all forms of intimate partner violence, placing them at risk of injury, death, and HIV. Marginalized young women, not in education or employment, living in absolute poverty in areas with low access to government services, are particularly at risk through involvement in transactional sex and entrenched patriarchal attitudes. They have limited access to government programs to improve livelihoods or to sources of help when they experience violence.