Adolescents and Youth
- Interventions to Address the Health and Well-Being of Married Adolescents: A Systematic Review
This review concludes that little research and programmatic attention is paid to the needs and vulnerabilities of married girls as if it were too late to reach them, and limited effort is made to address relationship dynamics and other conditions within marriage other than sexual and reproductive health.
- Empowerment Among Adolescent Girls in Nepal: A Concept Mapping Exploratory Study
This study used concept mapping, a community-engaged and participatory research method, to identify a wide range of factors that help “define” a context-specific concept of empowerment among adolescent girls in Nepal that will form the foundation for developing a Nepal-specific empowerment measurement for program evaluation.
- Improving the Quality of Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services Through Integrated Supportive Supervision in Four Nigerian States
Integrating quality assurance in Nigeria’s family planning supportive supervision system improved the quality of adolescent- and youth-friendly health services and contraceptive uptake by clients aged 15–24 years.
- A Social Norms Analysis of Religious Drivers of Child Marriage
Social norms theory provides a useful analytical structure for understanding religious influences on drivers of child marriage. This framework can be used to examine religious influences on child marriage as part of contextual analysis for social and behavior change interventions.
- Applying a Three-Tier Approach to Address Gaps in Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake and Continuity in Uganda: A Mixed Methods Approach
We introduced a transformative approach consisting of a gap analysis and root cause analysis to understand and address significant gaps in enrollment and continuity on oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and a national quality improvement collaborative to map interventions to address specific barriers in the PrEP cascade.
- Adopting Data to Care to Identify and Address Gaps in Services for Children and Adolescents Living With HIV in Mozambique
Real-time learning and implementation of the Data to Care strategy within the context of a large HIV intervention program in Mozambique provided a useful opportunity to evaluate, refine, and scale up this evidence-based approach to improve outcomes for children and adolescents living with HIV.
- Addressing the Impact of Climate Change on Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
There is an urgent need to better understand the role of climate change on sexual and reproductive health outcomes, particularly among adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries. Stakeholders at all levels should apply a rights-based, gendered approach to climate action and adaptation.
- Sexuality Education for Youth and Adolescents in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Window of Opportunity
The enabling role of Islam in the notion of sexuality education can serve as a window of opportunity for implementing culturally and contextually relevant sexuality education programs in the Middle East and North Africa region.
- Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a School-Based Sexual Health Education Program for Adolescent Girls in Cape Town, South Africa
Community engagement and acceptability of sexual education programs for adolescents alone are insufficient to ensure program uptake and engagement.
- Applying Human-Centered Design to Replicate an Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention: A Case Study of Binti Shupavu in Kenya
The human-centered design process has the potential to serve as a powerful tool for replication of evidence-based interventions, as demonstrated through the case study of Binti Shupavu in Kenya.