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Access to quality contraceptive counselling among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa

Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
Background Improving women’s access to and use of modern contraceptives is a key global strategy for improving the sexual and reproductive health of women.
Aliu Mohammed, Irene Esi Donkoh, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu   +4 more
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Likelihood of Leveraging Augmented Reality Technology to Promote HIV Prevention and Treatment Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cameroon: Cross-Sectional Survey

JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
IntroductionAdolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) represent 4 out of every 5 newly diagnosed HIV cases among adolescent girls and young women globally.
Zhao Ni, Intan Maharani Sulistyawati Batubara, Jackson Jr Nforbewing Ndenkeh, Georges Bediang, Habakkuk Yumo, Xuehong Zhang, Sunyong Oh, Yuchen Zhao, LaRon E Nelson   +8 more
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Drivers of malnutrition among late adolescent and young women in rural Pakistan: a cross-sectional assessment of the MaPPS trial

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective This study aimed to characterise the burden of malnutrition and assess how underlying determinants at the structural and intermediary levels contributed to malnutrition among late adolescent and young women in rural Pakistan.Design Cross ...
Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Yaqub Wasan, Imran Ahmed, Amjad Hussain, Jo-Anna B Baxter, Sajid B Soofi   +5 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early sexual debut among unmarried adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: analysis of the 2022 Demographic Health Survey on the role of coercion at first sex

BMJ Open
Objective In Tanzania, the problem of early sexual initiation among adolescent girls and adolescent girls and young women has remained a persistent public health and human rights challenge that continues to draw the attention of policymakers.
Albino Kalolo, Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano, Florence W Anfaara, Emmanuel Kyeremeh   +4 more
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Pelvic morphology and body size in relation to the preauricular sulcus: Evidence from medieval to modern Iberia

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González, Julia Muñoz‐Guarinos, Nico Cirotto, Sonia Díaz‐Navarro, Laura Rodríguez, José Miguel Carretero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age-disparate relationships and HIV incidence in adolescent girls and young women [PDF]

AIDS, 2017
Age-disparate sexual relationships with older men may drive high rates of HIV acquisition in young women in sub-Saharan Africa, but evidence is limited. We investigate the association between age-disparate relationships and HIV incidence in Manicaland, Zimbabwe.A general-population open-cohort study (six surveys) (1998-2013).A total of 3746 young women
Schaefer, Robin, Gregson, Simon, Eaton, Jeffrey W., Mugurungi, Owen, Rhead, Rebecca, Takaruza, Albert, Maswera, Rufurwokuda, Nyamukapa, Constance   +7 more
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Historical birth records from 1896 to 1944 from the Basel maternity hospital, Switzerland, reveal significant obstetric selection pressures

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Viktoria A. Krenn, Cédric Cordey, Nicole Torres‐Tamayo, Kaspar Staub, Nicole M. Webb, Martin Haeusler   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial distribution and factors associated with HIV testing among adolescent girls and young women in Sierra Leone

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Sierra Leone faces a significant challenge in addressing HIV/AIDS, particularly among adolescent girls and young women. This age group is considered highly vulnerable due to biological factors and social inequalities.
Augustus Osborne, Camilla Bangura, Samuel Maxwell Tom Williams, Alusine H. Koroma, Lovel Fornah, Regina M. Yillah, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah   +6 more
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Facilitators and barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake through a community-based intervention strategy among adolescent girls and young women in Seme Sub-County, Kisumu, Kenya

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background While the introduction of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV prevention strategy has allowed women to exercise more control over the reduction of HIV transmission rates, adolescent girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
Maya Jackson-Gibson, Ashley Uzoamaka Ezema, Wicklife Orero, Irene Were, Ramael Osasogie Ohiomoba, Patrick Owuor Mbullo, Lisa Ruth Hirschhorn   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source