Power and poverty: A participatory study on the complexities of HIV and intimate partner violence in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.

"Declaration of competing interest None."

"This project was supported by the 10.13039/501100000265UK Medical Research Council and the 10.13039/100014976Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine through the Translational and Quantitative Skills Doctoral Training Partnership in Global Health and by the GCRF Accountability for Informal Urban Equity Hub (“ARISE”), which is a 10.13039/100014013UKRI Collective Fund award with award reference ES/S00811X/1. The funding source was not involved in study design, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the article, nor the decision to submit for publication. Beate Ringwald: Conceptualisation, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing Review and Editing; Miriam Taegtmeyer: Conceptualisation, Formal Analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing Review and Editing; Veronicah Mwania: Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing Review and Editing; Mary Muthoki: Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing Review and Editing; Faith Munyao: Investigation, Methodology, Writing Review and Editing; Lina Digolo: Conceptualisation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing Review and Editing; Lilian Otiso: Conceptualisation, Writing Review and Editing; Anne S. Wangui Ngunjiri: Supervision, Writing Review and Editing; Robinson N. Karuga: Supervision, Writing Review and Editing; Rachel Tolhurst: Conceptualisation, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing Review and Editing; Korogocho ALIV[H]E research team: Formal Analysis, Investigation, Validation."

"The study was registered and approved by the Kenya National Commission for Science, Technology & Innovation (NACOSTI/P/19/1568 and NACOSTI/P/21/8210), AMREF Health Africa Ethics & Scientific Review Committee (P670/2019), and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee (19-065). Nairobi County and Ruaraka Sub-county Health Management Committees and local government authorities endorsed the study. We adopted evidence-based measures to mitigate risk of COVID-19. Participation was voluntary; co-researchers and participants gave written informed consent, including for audio recording. We discussed confidentiality repeatedly with co-researchers (e.g., initial one-on-one meetings, group reflections) and participants (e.g., recruitment, consent procedure). Although we diverted from safety protocols by inviting women and men together, we ensured they were not from same households. To mitigate re-traumatisation and adverse events, co-researchers collected feedback from participants after workshops using a short questionnaire and informed participants about available counselling services."