Peer-reviewed journal articles
Flaws and Errors Identified in the Institute for Research and Evaluation Report That Challenges Non-United States, School-Based Comprehensive Sexuality Education Evidence Base.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2023 – Download PDF
Assessing the health, social, educational and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a rapid review of the literature
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023 – Download PDF
Factors that influence the uptake of postnatal care among adolescent girls: a qualitative evidence synthesis
BMJ Global Health 2023 – Download PDF
Acceptability and continuation of use of the subdermal contraceptive implant among adolescents and young women in Argentina: a retrospective cohort study
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023 – Download PDF
Pharmacies: an important source of contraception for some adolescents, but not a panacea for all
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023 – Download PDF
Commitment, Concessions and Compromise. Experiences of building support for and addressing resistance to sexuality education from Nigeria.
Open Health, 2022 – Download PDF
Improving health worker motivation and performance to deliver adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in the Democratic Republic of Congo: study design of implementation research to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a package of interventions.
Global Health Action, 2022 – Download PDF
Adolescent experiences of mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities: secondary analysis of a community-based survey in four countries.
BMJ Global Health, 2022 – Download PDF
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Ethiopia: Reviewing progress over the last 20 years and looking ahead to the next 10 years.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2022 – Download PDF
“Second Chances” for Adolescent Mothers: Four Decades of Insights and Lessons on Effectiveness and Scale-up of Jamaica’s PAM.
American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022 – Download PDF
Expanding equity measurements of family planning beyond wealth status and contraceptive use.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2021 – Download PDF
A collaborative learning approach to improving health worker performance in adolescent sexual and reproductive health service provision: a descriptive feasibility study in six health zones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Global Health Action, 2021 – Download PDF
The East and Southern Africa Ministerial Commitment: a review of progress toward fulfilling young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (2013–2018).
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2021 – Download PDF
One Size Does Not Fit All When Designing Interventions to Prevent Child Marriage.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021 – Download PDF
Current Trends in Child Marriage.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021 – Download PDF
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health for all in sub-Saharan Africa: a spotlight on inequalities.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2021 – Download PDF
A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data.
Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2021 – Download PDF
Updated research gaps on ending child marriage and supporting married girls for 2020–2030.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2021 – Download PDF
Building evidence on what works (and what does not): practical guidance from the World Health Organization on post-project evaluation of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects.
Health Policy and Planning, 2021 – Download PDF
Menstrual health: a definition for policy, practice, and research.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2021 – Download PDF
A groundbreaking systematic review, but that alone is not enoughto change the course of programming on child marriage prevention.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021 – Download PDF
The state of adolescent menstrual health in low- and middle-income countries and suggestions for future action and research
BMC Reproductive Health, 2020 – Download PDF
Identifying the needs and problems of those left behind, and working with them to address inequities in sexual and reproductive health: a key focus of Reproductive Health for 2020
BMC Reproductive Health, 2020 – Download PDF
Strengthening health care worker engagement with early adolescence in low- and middle-income countries: an overdue area for action
International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2020 – Download PDF
Progress in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights globally between 1990 and 2016: what progress has been made, what contributed to this, and what are the implications for the future?
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020 – Download PDF
A Systematic Review of the Evidence on Peer Education Programmes for Promoting the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People in India
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020 – Download PDF
Adolescent health programming in India: a rapid review
BMC Reproductive Health. 2020 – Download PDF
Improving access to and use of contraception by adolescents: What progress has been made, what lessons have been learnt, and what are the implications for action?
Best Practices and Research – Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2020 – Download PDF
Trends in adolescent first births in sub-Saharan Africa: A tale of increasing inequity?
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020.19, 151. – Download PDF
Effective strategies to improve health worker performance in delivering adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services.
International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, September 2020 – Download PDF
Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India.
BMC Reproductive Health. 2020 – Download PDF
From commitment to implementation: lessons learnt from the first National Strategy for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020 – Download PDF
World Health Organization Guidance on Ethical Considerations in Planning and Reviewing Research Studies on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Adolescents
Journal of Adolescent Health , 2019 – Download PDF
Understanding the Relationships Between HIV and Child Marriage: Conclusions From an Expert Consultation
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019, – Download PDF
Lessons learned from national government- led efforts to reduce adolescent pregnancy in Chile, England and Ethiopia
Early Childhood Matters, 2019 – Download PDF
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Using geospatial modelling to estimate the prevalence of adolescent first births in Nepal
BMJ Global Health, 2019 – Download PDF
Facilitators and barriers in the utilization of World Health Organization’s Preventing Early Pregnancy Guidelines in formulating laws, policies and strategies: what do stakeholders in Ethiopia say?
International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2019 – Download PDF
The feasibility and acceptability of collaborative learning in improving health worker performance on adolescent health: findings from implementation research in Moldova
BMC Health Services Research, 2019- Download PDF
What can the global movement to end child marriage learn from the implementation of other multisectoral initiatives?
BMJ Global Health, 2019 – Download PDF
Managing Sex Education Controversy Deep in the Heart of Texas: A Case Study of the North East Independent School District (NEISD)
American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2019 – Download PDF
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights: a stock-taking and call-to-action on the 25th anniversary of the international conference on population and development
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019 – Download PDF
The state of adolescent sexual and reproductive health
Journal of Adolescent health, 2019 – Download PDF
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019 – Download PDF
A Package of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Interventions—What Does It Mean for Adolescents?
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019 – Download PDF
Forward, Together: A Collaborative Path to Comprehensive Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Our Time
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2019 – Download PDF
Gender-transformative programmes: implications for research and action
Lancet Global, 2019 – Download PDF
38.8 million additional modern contraceptive users: This, in fact, is “a never-before opportunity to strengthen investment and action on adolescent contraception”
BMC Reproductive Health, 2018 – Download PDF
Addressing harmful and unequal gender norms in early adolescence
Nature Human Behaviour, 2018 – Download PDF
Addressing Gender Socialization and Masculinity Norms Among Adolescent Boys: Policy and Programmatic Implications
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2018 – Download PDF
Building Support for Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health Education and Responding to Resistance in Conservative Contexts: Cases From Pakistan
Global Health: Science and Practice, 2018 – Download PDF
What Did It Take to Scale Up and Sustain Udaan, a School-Based Adolescent Education Program in Jharkhand, India?
American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2018 – Download PDF
Evolution and Resistance to Sexuality Education in Mexico
Global Health: Science & Practice, 2018 – Download PDF
Trends in adolescent first births in five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: disaggregated data from demographic and health surveys
BMC Reproductive health, 2018 – Download PDF
How can collective action between government sectors to prevent child marriage be operationalized? Evidence from a post-hoc evaluation of an intervention in Jamui, Bihar and Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan in India
BMC Reproductive Health, 2018 – Download PDF
The revised international technical guidance on sexuality education – a powerful tool at an important crossroads for sexuality education
BMC Reproductive Health, 2018 – Download PDF
Using three indicators to understand the parity-specific contribution of adolescent childbearing to all births
BMJ Global Health, 2018 – Download PDF
Assessment of country policies affecting reproductive health for adolescents in the Philippines
BMC Reproductive Health. 2018 – Download PDF
A systematic review of the use of adolescent mystery clients in assessing the adolescent friendliness of health services in high, middle, and low-income countries
Global Health Action, 2018 – Download PDF
Mapping the knowledge and understanding of menarche, menstrual hygiene and menstrual health among adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2017 – Download PDF
The health status of adolescents in Ecuador and the country’s response to the need for differentiated healthcare for adolescents.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2017 – Download PDF
Help and Care Seeking for Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Youth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2017 – Download PDF
Looking back and moving forward: Can we accelerate progress in adolescent pregnancy in the Americas?
BMC Reproductive Health, 2017 – Download PDF
How do national contraception laws and policies address the contraceptive needs of adolescents in Paraguay?
BMC Reproductive Health, 2017 – Download PDF
A never-before opportunity to strengthen investment and action on adolescent contraception, and what we must do to make full use of it.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2017 – Download PDF
Implications of the Global Early Adolescent Study’s Formative Research Findings for Action and for Research.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2017 – Download PDF
Interventions for preventing unintended rapid, repeat pregnancy among adolescents: A review of the evidence and lessons from high-quality evaluations.
Global Health Science and Practice, 2017 – Download PDF
Addressing gender socialization and masculinity norms among adolescent boys: policy and programmatic implications.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2017 – Download PDF
Scaling up sexuality education in Senegal: integrating family life education into the national curriculum.
Sex Education, 2016 – Download PDF
Reorienting adolescent sexual and reproductive health research: reflections from an international conference.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Feasibility and acceptability of delivering adolescent health interventions alongside HPV vaccination in Tanzania.
Health Policy and Planning, 2016 – Download PDF
Implementing the United Kingdom Government’s 10-Year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy for England (1999-2010): Applicable Lessons for Other Countries.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Teenage pregnancy strategy for England.
The Lancet, 2016 – Download PDF
Lessons learnt from the CERCA Project, a multicomponent intervention to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health in three Latin America countries: a qualitative post-hoc evaluation.
Evaluation and Program Planning, 2016 – Download PDF
The Tarunya Project’s efforts to improve the quality of health services in Jharkhand state, India: a post-hoc evaluation.
International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Understanding Factors that Shape Gender Attitudes in Early Adolescence Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.
PLOS ONE, 2016 – Download PDF
Sexually Transmitted Infection Services for Adolescents and Youth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Perceived and Experienced Barriers to Accessing Care.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Mapping adolescent first births within three east African countries using data from Demographic and Health Surveys: exploring geospatial methods to inform policy.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Implementing the United Kingdom’s ten year teenage pregnancy strategy for England (1999-2010): How was this done and what did it achieve?
BMC Reproductive Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Measuring adolescent friendly health services in India: A scoping review of evaluations.
BMC Reproductive Health, 2016 – Download PDF
E-learning for research capacity strengthening in sexual and reproductive health: the experience of the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research and the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization.
Human Resources for Health, 2016 – Download PDF
Laski L on behalf of the Expert Consultative Group for Every Women Every Child on Adolescent Health. Realising the health and wellbeing of adolescents
British Medical Journal, 2015 – Download PDF
Twenty Years After International Conference on Population and Development: Where Are We With Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights?
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Effective Strategies to Provide Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and to Increase Demand and Community Support
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Millennium Development Goal 5 and adolescents: looking back, moving forward
BMJ Global Health, 2015 – Download PDF
The success factors of scaling-up Estonian sexual and reproductive health youth clinic network – from a grassroots initiative to a national programme 1991–2013
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Latin America: reflections from an International Congress
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Programa Geração Biz, Mozambique: how did this adolescent health initiative grow from a pilot to a national programme, and what did it achieve?
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Adolescent first births in East Africa: disaggregating characteristics, trends and determinants
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Scaling up of Life Skills Based Education in Pakistan: a case study
Sex Education, 2015 – Download PDF
Putting menarche and girls into the global population health agenda
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Sexual and Reproductive Health Research and Research Capacity Strengthening in Africa: Perspectives from the region
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
What Does Not Work in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Evidence on Interventions Commonly Accepted as Best Practices
Global Health: Science and Practice, 2015 – Download PDF
Research priorities on ending child marriage and supporting married girls
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Documenting good practices: scaling up the youth friendly health service model in Colombia
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
A Systematic Review of Reporting Tools Applicable to Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Step 1 in Developing Programme Reporting Standards
PLOS ONE, 2015 – Download PFD
Community based reproductive health interventions for young married couples in resource-constrained settings: a systematic review
BMC Public Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Assessing youth-friendly-health-services and supporting planning in the Republic of Moldova
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Child Marriage Legislation in the Asia-Pacific Region
The Review of Faith and International Affairs. 2015 – Download PDF
An Analysis of Adolescent Content in South Africa’s Contraception Policy Using a Human Rights Framework
Journal of Adolescent Health. 2015 – Download PDF
WHO Guideline for Brief Sexuality-Related Communication: Implications for STI/HIV Policy and Practice
BMC Reproductive Health Matters. 2015 – Download PDF
A pressing need to respond to the needs and sexual and reproductive health problems of adolescent girls living with
Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2015 – Download PDF
Consistent laws and child marriage
International perspectives in sexual and reproductive health, 2015 – Download PDF
Do efforts to standardize, assess and improve the quality of health service provision to adolescents by government-run health services in low and middle income countries, lead to improvements in service-quality and service-utilization by adolescents?
BMC Reproductive Health, 2015 – Download PDF
Contraception for adolescents in low and middle income countries: needs, barriers, and access
BMC Reproductive Health, 2014 – Download PDF
A conceptual framework for early adolescence: a platform for research
International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2014 – Download PDF
Behavior Change for Child Survival and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Examination of the Evidence
Journal of Health Communication, 2014 – Download PDF
Preconception care: advancing from ‘important to do and can be done’ to ‘is being done and is making a difference’
BMC Reproductive Health, 2014 – Download PDF
Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence
BMC Reproductive Health, 2014 – Download PDF
Preventing Early Pregnancy and Pregnancy-Related Mortality and Morbidity in Adolescents in Developing Countries: The Place of Interventions in the Prepregnancy Period
Journal of Pregnancy, 2013 – Download PDF
The World Health Organization’s work on adolescent sexual and reproductive health
Bundesgesundheitsbl, 2013 – Download PDF
Strategies to sustain and scale up youth friendly health services in the Republic of Moldova
BMC Public Health. 2013 – Download PDF
WHO Guidelines on Preventing Early Pregnancy and Poor Reproductive Outcomes Among Adolescents in Developing Countries
Journal of Adolescent Health. 2013 – Download PDF
Standardizing and scaling up quality adolescent friendly health services in Tanzania
BMC Public Health. 2013 – Download PDF
Setting Research Priorities for Preconception Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Aiming to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality and Morbidity
PLoS Med, 2013 – Download PDF
Effective Health Interventions for Adolescents That Could Be Integrated With Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Programs
Journal of Adolescent Health. 2013 – Download PDF
Invest in adolescents and young people: it pays
BMC Reproductive Health, 2013 – Download PDF
Scaling up comprehensive sexuality education in Nigeria: from national policy to nationwide application
Sex Education, 2013 – Download PDF
Reaching Youth With Out-of-Facility HIV and Reproductive Health Services: A Systematic Review
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2012 – Download PDF
Interrupting Intimate Partner Violence in Developing Countries
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2012 – Download PDF
Preventing child marriages: first international day of the girl child “my life, my right, end child marriage”
BMC Reproductive Health, 2012 – Download PDF
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2001
Contraception for adolescents: social, clinical and service-delivery considerations
International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2001 – Download PDF
Tailoring clinical management practices to meet the special needs of adolescents: sexually transmitted infections
International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2001 – Download PDF
2005
Journal of the Indian Medical Association. 2005 – Download PDF
2007
Inequity and unwanted fertility in developing countries
Bulletin of WHO, 2007 – Download PDF
2008
Primary Care Networks: A benefit to the health of adolescents and young adults
Review Medicale Suisse, 2008 – Download PDF
Are health workers really promoting condoms?
Health Education Research, 1993 – Download PDF