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14 gru 2017 · Introduction: In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) face a range of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges. Clinical, behavioural and structural interventions have each reduced these risks and improved health outcomes.
1 gru 2018 · One offered "standard of care" (SOC), consisting of vertical HIV testing, family planning, and sexually transmitted infection management in adult-oriented spaces, by providers without extra training. Three offered youth-friendly health services (YFHS), consisting of the same SOC services in integrated youth-dedicated spaces and staffed by youth ...
The Girl Power study demonstrates that by simultaneously addressing several of these needs, it is possible to substantially improve service uptake by AGYW in public sector health centers, even in a resource-constrained environment.
The Girl Power study is designed to compare three different combinations of evidence-based interventions with one another and with a standard of care (SOC) and to assess their impact on a range of care-seeking and sexual risk behaviours in two SSA countries.
The Girl-POWER initiative is a high-impact intervention package that covers ANC care for AGYW; AGYW-focused prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT); case management for prioritized AGYW in ANC; management of labor and delivery and postpartum care for AGYW; prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), GBV, and ...
Today, we know that better educated females are more likely to be knowledgeable about food, nutrition, health and health care, childbearing and child raising, and even better caretakers of our planet, decreasing the carbon footprint of their family and their community.
A more comprehensive and holistic approach to maternal health ensures a balanced consideration of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences and health and well-being outcomes, as well as the quality of care received, with all being shaped by intersectional gender power relations.
