Development Connections (DVCN) offers technical support for development initiatives advancing social equity and human rights. Our mission is to improve the conditions of life in communities via public policies, capacity-building and exchange between organizations and individuals. DVCN works with a diverse range of issues including: health and human security, gender equity, childhood and adolescent development, elderly, violence prevention, migration and human trafficking, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS.

Challenges for establishing links between empowerment and HIV:
http://www.dvcn.org/Documents/EmpowermentHIV.pdf

Description of the course on "Empowerment, HIV and violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean":
http://www.dvcn.org/Documents/HIVVBGcourseDescription2.pdf