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Sexual & reproductive health & rights for adolescent girls

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are critical entitlements best supported by human rights-based approaches empowering ...

Sexual and reproductive health among adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya

This secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional survey conducted in Mombasa, Kenya characterises sexual and reproductive hea...

Sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviour of adolescent boys and girls aged 10–19 years in western Kenya: evidence from a cross-sectional pilot survey

This paper reports the findings of a pilot survey of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) knowledge-edge and behavi...

Sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and young people in the Gambia: a systematic review

Adolescents and young people in the Gambia make up 32% of the national population. Observations indicate that this population g...

Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Uganda are at risk of early sexual debut, unwanted pregnancy, violence, and dispropo...

Sexual health of very young adolescents in South Western Uganda: a cross-sectional assessment of sexual knowledge and behavior

In most Sub-Saharan African countries, little is known about young adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Though so...

Social Cohesion And Livelihoods Empowerment for Youth-Led Durable Solution (Scale) Project in Urban Kampala And Refugee Settlements in Uganda

This study aimed to assess the marketability of competencies acquired by youths through the NRC-SCALE vocational training and b...

Socio-cultural context of adolescent sexuality and youth friendly service intervention in West Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: a qualitative study

Recognizing that adolescents face barriers in accessing services, may feel embarrassed, face stigma on sexual matters, or have...

SRH of adolescents in schools schools for PWDs

Persons with disabilities have the same sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs as the abled people but they often face barr...

Strengthening Research and Evaluation Capacity For Evidence-Driven Policies and Programmes to Improve Refugee Child Well-Being In Africa

To generate culturally relevant evidence to improve the implementation of ECD programmes for better outcomes for refugee childr...

Supporting Uganda’s child domestic workers experiencing violence

A large number of Ugandan children are employed as domestic workers in households i.e. work in households other than their own ...

Systematic Mapping of Child-Focused Scholars and Networks in Africa

Temporal shifts in HIV-related risk factors among cohorts of adolescent girls and young women enrolled in DREAMS programming: evidence from Kenya, Malawi and Zambia

Four decades into the HIV epidemic, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW, aged 15–24 years) remain at high risk for HIV. Glob...

Tending the ‘monthly flower:’ a qualitative study of menstrual beliefs in Tigray, Ethiopia

Menstruation is a universal aspect of human female reproductive life. Management of menstrual flow presents hygiene challenges ...

The Effect Of Covid 19 on The Wellbeing of Children in Uganda

The assessment of COVID-19's effect on the Wellbeing of Children in Uganda was conducted between June and August 2020 by AfriCh...

The Impact of Men’s Active Positive Presence in the Lives of Children in Uganda

This report presents the findings of a study titled “The impact of men’s active positive presence in the lives of children in ...

The knowledge-risk-behaviour continuum among young Ugandans: what it tells us about SRH/HIV integration

With a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence of 2.1% among 15–24-year-olds, opportunities for further integration of se...

The moral and social narratives of sexual and reproductive health in Kenya: a case of adolescents and young people pre- and within the MDG era

The role of global initiatives in catalyzing change within national contexts is complex and less understood. Addressing adolesc...