The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K): study protocol

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• 作者：Karen Austrian ; Eunice Muthengi ; Joyce Mumah ; Erica Soler-Hampejsek…
• 关键词：Adolescent girls ; Randomized trial ; Multi ; sectoral ; Kenya ; Schooling ; Conditional cash transfer ; Savings ; Financial education ; Violence prevention ; Education ; Health
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1,358 KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458

文摘

Background Many adolescent girls in Kenya and elsewhere face considerable risks and vulnerabilities that affect their well-being and hinder a safe, healthy, and productive transition into early adulthood. Early adolescence provides a critical window of opportunity to intervene at a time when girls are experiencing many challenges, but before those challenges have resulted in deleterious outcomes that may be irreversible. The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) is built on these insights and designed to address these risks for young adolescent girls. The long-term goal of AGI-K is to delay childbearing for adolescent girls by improving their well-being.