Much attention has been devoted in recent years to the adolescent girl in low- and middle-income countries. The large number of related interventions...
Abstract: Adolescence is a life phase in which the opportunities for health are great and future patterns of adult health are established. Health in...
The Adolescent Age and Life-Stage Assessment and Counselling tools present a set of tools and counseling cards for use by health providers and health...
This study of Adolescent Boys and Young Men highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and...
Abstract: Adolescents account for almost one third of India's population. They are prone to suffer from reproductive and sexual health, nutritional,...
Many adolescent girls in Kenya and elsewhere face considerable risks and vulnerabilities that affect their well-being and hinder a safe, healthy, and...
This report, based on in-depth interviews with 102 adolescents, is a sequel to focus group discussions and a national survey of adolescents in Ghana...
This paper reviews and describes research practices and program interventions addressing the SRH of VYAs and identifies promising program components...
AMAZE is harnessing the power of digital media to provide children, adolescents, their parents and educators with medically accurate, affirming, and...
Abstract: Anaemia due to iron deficiency is still a widespread problem. Among adolescent girls, it will bring negative consequences on growth, school...
Abstract: Lifestyle means a pattern of individual practices and personal behavioral choices that are related to elevated or reduced health risk. The...
This report summarizes the key findings from the first phase of the program, which was implemented in Mumbai public schools across two academic years...
Abstract: One of the factors that influences HIV risk behavior among early adolescents is their HIV/AIDS knowledge. The objectives of this study were...
In order to improve gender equity among very young adolescents 10-14 years old, Save the Children developed an innovate gender transformative package...
The purposes of this systematic review were to present and compare recent estimates of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in school-aged youth...
Abstract: Iron deficiency anemia during adolescence may reduce physical work capacity and cognitive function.Objectives: To assess the physical work...
united Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
This report provides an overview of the status of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) implementation and coverage on a global level. It draws on...
Equal Community Foundation (ECF) is based in Pune, India and has been working towards the singular goal of raising every man in India to end violence...
Georgia State University Institute of Public Health
Abstract: Tobacco use is responsible for millions of preventable illnesses and deaths throughout the world. Nevertheless, multitudes of people begin...
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
The Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) was launched in 2014 with the primary goal of understanding the factors in early adolescence that predispose...
Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
The Gender Roles, Equality and Transformation (GREAT) Project aims to promote gender-equitable attitudes and behaviors among adolescents (ages 10-19)...
Girl Shine is a program model and resource package that seeks to support, protect, and empower adolescent girls in humanitarian settings. Girl Shine...
As girls approach adolescence, they face the start of a narrow bridge. As they move through adolescence they must cross this bridge, emerging at the...
Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University Save the Children Pathfinder
Three sets of activity cards: one set of cards for girls and boys 10 to 14 years of age, one set for young men and young women 15 to 19 years of age,...
Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University Save the Children
13 guides that groups can use to discuss specific topics and characters from the GREAT radio drama. The guides allow people to talk first about those...
The challenges for young people making the transition to adulthood are greater today than ever before. Globalization, with its power to reach across...
Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care
Abstract: This paper examines girls' voiced experiences of menstruation, puberty and schooling in northern Tanzania. The study was conducted in Moshi...
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Abstract: Background: The relationship between dysregulation of cardiovascular autonomic functions and development of the hypertension has been well...
The fully revised UN International technical guidance on sexuality education advocates for quality comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to promote...
This Guidebook sets out the public health rationale for making it easier for adolescents to obtain the health services that they need to protect and...
Background: Menstruation is generally considered as unclean in the Indian society. Isolation of the menstruating girls and restrictions being imposed...
Abstract: This study examined the knowledge and practices of adolescent school girls in Kano, Nigeria around menstruation and menstrual hygiene. Data...
First, to explore the kind of information that Mexican mothers give their daughters about menstruation before their menarche, and to study the impact...
Abstract: The rise of non-communicable diseases and their impact in low- and middle-income countries has gained increased attention in recent years....
Abstract: There are very few reports from the developing world on the prevalence of obesity among children even though in developed countries it has...
This report reviews the measurement of obesity in young people and the need to agree on standardized methods for assessing children and adolescents,...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of anemia among adolescents in Denizli where Mediterranean cuisine (fresh fruit...
Abstract: Nutritional status is an important marker of overall health and linear growth retardation has serious long-term physiological and economic...
Abstract: Worldwide, non-communicable diseases (NCD) represent 43% of the burden of disease and are expected to be responsible for 60% of the disease...
WHO guidelines on preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries provides a robust evidence base...
USAIDInstitute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
Curriculum-based approaches use written, strategically designed and sequenced lesson plans featuring instruction, materials and learning activities....
Save the ChildrenInstitute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
A core activity of the Responsible, Engaged and Loving (REAL) Fathers Project is mentoring. Mentors are men whom young fathers identify as those they...
Anemia in school-age children is an important public health problem and available data of its prevalence and existing risk factors are essential for...
Economic and social change have brought great opportunities and threats to adolescent health for rich and poor nations alike. The health transition,...
Abstract: Adolescents are a key target group for HIV and pregnancy prevention efforts, yet very little is known about the youngest adolescents: those...
In order for young people to make good decisions about sexual and reproductive health (RH) matters, they need good information, values and attitudes...
This report describes the most prevalent and serious health problems adolescent girls face in developing countries, linking them to a combination of...
Abstract: To investigate the determinants of overweight and obesity among 10- to 15-year-old schoolchildren in a population in the transitional phase...
Malnutrition has been receiving more attention recently, both for continuing problems of undernutrition and a growing problem of obesity and related...
Communication mapping is a participatory tool which is a simple and effective way to plot and understand how children communicate with the people in...
Abstract: The global development community has focused in recent decades on closing the gender gap in education, but has given insufficient attention...
This Paper was prepared specifically for the ECOSOC Ministerial Roundtable co-organised by UNICEF and PAHO to document the linkages between NCDs and...
This report is the first major presentation of the international data from the 2001/2002 HBSC survey. The survey covered the physical, emotional and...
Project Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR), a United States Agency for International Development-funded global operations research project,...
This guide has been developed to assist donor agencies (multilateral and bilateral) and policy advisors in a range of organisations working with and...
Early marriage can curtail girls' freedom; end their education prematurely; and put them at risk of HIV, early and unintended pregnancy, and domestic...
