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Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2023 Background Unmet need for family planning among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) is a common cause of the low contraceptive utilization in developing countries, including Ethiopia.
Desale Bihonegn Asmamaw +1 more
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Working with girls and young women [PDF]
, 2004 No abstract ...
Burman, M.J., Batchelor, S.A.
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Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2023 Introduction Female genital amputation is a harmful traditional practice that has adverse risks on health outcomes. Consequently, it affects girls and women's physical, psychological, and mental health conditions.
Asaye Alamneh Gebeyehu +3 more
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Preferred HIV Testing Modalities Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya [PDF]
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021 To improve testing coverage, it is imperative to determine adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) preferences about HIV testing modality and where they prefer receiving services.Participants were enrolled between May 2017 and April 2018 from three sites in Homa Bay County, Nyanza region, western Kenya.
Irene Inwani +7 more
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Dietary Calcium and Bone Density in Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Europe [PDF]
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 1999 Abstract The objective of this study was to investigate the association between dietary calcium intake and radial bone density among young women, over the whole range of intake and at different levels of calcium intake. The study design was a cross-sectional, observational multicenter investigation in six European countries. One thousand
Kardinal AFM +13 more
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Assessing very advanced HIV disease in adolescent girls and young women
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2023 South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic globally, with ~7.5 million people living with HIV in 2021. Adolescent girls (AG) and young women (YW), aged 15-19 years and 20-24 years, are twice as likely to be living with HIV as their male counterparts. The national HIV prevalence for young women was 9.1% (2021), with limited data on disease severity.This ...
Cassim, Naseem +4 more
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A socio-ecological approach to understanding adolescent girls' engagement and experiences in the PE environment : a case study design [PDF]
, 2015 Adolescence is known to be a period of increased risk for the development of unhealthy behaviours such as physical inactivity (Currie et al., 2011). Low physical activity (PA) levels are especially noted in girls, who typically engage in less PA than ...
Inchley, Jo +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 IntroductionUnintended pregnancies are associated with a number of risk factors such as malnutrition, mental illness, unsafe abortion, maternal mortality and horizontal transmission of HIV to children.
Bright Opoku Ahinkorah
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Jurnal Maksipreneur: Manajemen, Koperasi, dan Entrepreneurship, 2022 Motivated by the lack of empirical research on entrepreneurial mindset knowledge training among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa, this article examined the entrepreneurial knowledge among 3584 adolescent girls and young women from ...
Jean Damascene Mvunabandi +2 more
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Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1999 To compile available published data on the prevalence of douching practices in adolescent girls and young women and the effects of douching on gynecologic health, including studies of gynecologic changes due to douching in adolescent girls and young women, surveys that demonstrated the prevalence of douching in the populations, and policy statements or
J S, Merchant, K, Oh, L V, Klerman
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