Wartime sexual violence is systematically under-theorized in both realist international relations (IR) and mainstream feminist IR frameworks. Realism's state-centric lens renders gendered violence invisible, while universal feminist approaches fail to account for the complex intersections of race, class, displacement and postcolonial history that shape women's lived experiences of sexual violence.

Adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) have been linked with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in high-income countries, but evidence from low-income countries like Haiti is limited.
The authors investigated the cross-sectional association between APO and prevalent CVD using the Haiti CVD Cohort.

Data on women’s reproductive health in settings facing extreme poverty are limited. We describe the reproductive health characteristics across the life course of women living in urban Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and identify factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO).

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Since 2018, escalating armed gang violence in Haiti has caused thousands of deaths and kidnappings, the collapse of essential services, and the internal displacement of over 1.3 million people. This study documents the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and associated factors among internally displaced people due to armed gang violence, providing essential evidence to inform clinical care and guide targeted humanitarian and mental health interventions.

Though there are a growing number of programs seeking to prevent violence against women and children, adolescent girls often fall into a gap between these approaches. This article focuses on the impact of a violence prevention program, Rethinking Power, on the lives and wellbeing girls and young women aged 10–23.

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Improving perinatal engagement in HIV care is critical to prevent disease progression and transmission. In Haiti and other low-resource settings, poverty contributes substantially to poor perinatal HIV outcomes. Cash transfers are a promising intervention that may alleviate poverty and improve perinatal HIV outcomes through economic and psychological pathways. To inform the design of an unconditional cash transfer intervention, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 pregnant and postpartum women with HIV receiving care at St. Boniface Hospital in rural Haiti 12/2023-5/2024.

Global policies addressing the protection of women and girls are unevenly applied, notably in cases of humanitarian crises that are hidden or intentionally forgotten in the context of global imperialism and racism. This chapter highlights the contradictory impact of the United Nations in the Global South as an international body producing policies aimed at protecting women’s rights in humanitarian settings and coordinating development interventions that ultimately lead to infringing racialized women’s rights.

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are the epicenter of the global HIV epidemic. The FANMI trial is an unblinded randomized-controlled trial which evaluated the effectiveness of a community-based model of cohort HIV care vs. standard clinic-based care among AGYW living with HIV in Haiti. Participants ages 16–24 years were randomized 1:1 to FANMI vs. standard care. In the FANMI intervention, cohorts of 5–10 participants attended monthly sessions in a community center for integrated HIV clinical care, group counseling, and social activities led by the same provider.

In Haiti, surviving pregnancy and childbirth is especially tenuous for young women, who are already marginalized. One of the four leading causes of death for women 20–24 years old is pregnancy- or childbirth-related. An important gap remains regarding youth perspectives of maternal health and well-being within their communities.

Haitian women face heightened risk of contracting HIV and encounter challenges in accessing quality care due to sociocultural and economic barriers. Stigma compounds these challenges, especially for pregnant women living with HIV. Globally, HIV-related stigma is a recognized barrier to testing, treatment, and prevention, contributing to low testing rates and substandard treatment and care. This study examines sources and origins of stigma that impact pregnant women’s access to and experience with sexual and maternal healthcare.