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SGBV-Related Practices The proportion of girls that indicated they would report incidents of sexual comments by another student to authority figures (teachers, the school principal, or the police) significantly increased from 41% at baseline to 57% at endline. However, there was no significant change in the proportion of girls that indicated that they would report sexual comments by a teacher to authority figures (from 38% at baseline to 40% at endline). Nor was there any significant change in the proportion of girls that reported they would decline sexual advances from a student (69% at baseline and a similar proportion at endline) or from a teacher (47% at baseline and 43% at endline). Attitudes toward SGBV There were significant positive changes in the attitudes of girls regarding SGBV. Girls' responses in this area indicated significant positive changes in 13 out of a total of 21 items used to measure attitudes towards SGBV. The changes were characterized by significant increases between baseline and endline in the proportions of students that disagreed with statements that justified SGBV, as well as significant increases in the proportions that agreed with statements promoting the rights of women and girls in society. Conclusions The study findings show high levels of reported abuse among in-school girls in Swaziland, and demonstrate the overall ability of the intervention model to contribute to improved SGBV outcomes among this population. While the SGBV-focused girls' clubs were effective in improving girls' social assets, increasing their awareness, and positively changing their attitudes towards, and potential practices against, SGBV, they were less successful in improving the odds that girls would decline sexual advances from fellow students or teachers. This suggests that the interventions could further be strengthened by incorporating components aimed at enhancing this website self-efficacy among girls. With new funding, the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse is currently working on enhancing this intervention by incorporating a self-efficacy component into the girls' clubs. Acknowledgements Financial support for this study was provided by the Swedish-Norwegian Regional HIV and AIDS Team for Africa, Embassy of Sweden, Lusaka.""Dyslipidemia, a dysregulation of lipid content in the blood, is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Dyslipidemia is treated with fibrates, which act as agonists of the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-�� (PPAR-��) [1,2]. This protein is one of three PPAR isotypes, PPAR-��, PPAR-��, and PPAR-��, which display distinct physiological functions dependent on their differential ligand activation profiles and tissue distribution [3,4].