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Aug 20, 2018 - GIRL Center Dataverse
Abdel-Tawab, Nahla, 2018, "Married Adolescent Girls in Rural Assiut and Souhag: Limited Choices and Unfulfilled Reproductive Health Needs", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/21IXV4, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:SVoyTKYO6LDEB2A0Cw9jSQ== [fileUNF]
Although median age of marriage has increased in Egypt to 21 years for women and 23 years for men and despite the presence of a law that sets the minimum age of marriage at 18 years, child marriage continues to exist in Egypt. According to Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) 2014, 21.1% of married female youth aged 25-29 in Egypt were married be... |
Jul 31, 2018 - GIRL Center Dataverse
Austrian, Karen, 2018, "Safe and Smart Savings", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SOW4HP, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:tT+qy9bmgpSWiMs+jiMHow== [fileUNF]
Safe and Smart Savings is a Population Council–developed program to help vulnerable adolescent girls build assets, support networks, and savings in order to break the grip of poverty. The program combined weekly group meetings facilitated by a female mentor, financial education, health and life skills education, and formal individual savings accoun... |
Jul 24, 2018
Ann Gottert; Julie Pulerwitz; Anne Katahoire; Jerry Okal; Florence Ayebare; Nrupa Jani; Pamela Keilig; Sanyukta Mathur, 2018, "Male partners of young women in Uganda: Understanding their relationships and use of HIV testing", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EOHQDA, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Background: Substantial concern exists about the high risk of sexually transmitted HIV to adolescent girls and young women (AGYW, ages 15-24) in Eastern and Southern Africa. Yet limited research has been conducted with AGYW’s male sexual partners regarding their perspectives on relationships and strategies for mitigating HIV risk. We sought to fill... |
Jul 19, 2018
Sanyukta Mathur; Maurice Musheke; Nanlesta Pilgrim; Drosin Mulenga; Lunda Banda; Nrupa Jani; Julie Pulerwitz, 2018, "DREAMS Implementation Science: Phase 1 Analysis Data, Zambia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BYD9JF, Harvard Dataverse, V1
DREAMS aims to reduce HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. Girls and young women account for 74 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. The 10 DREAMS countries account for more than half of all the new HIV infections that occurred among adolescent girls and young w... |
Jul 6, 2018
Mathur, Sanyukta; Okal, Jerry; Pilgrim, Nanlesta; Matheka, James; Jani, Nrupa; Pulerwitz, Julie, 2018, "DREAMS Implementation Science: Phase 1 Analysis Data, Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AHHXBI, Harvard Dataverse, V1
DREAMS aims to reduce HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. Girls and young women account for 74 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. The 10 DREAMS countries account for more than half of all the new HIV infections that occurred among adolescent girls and young w... |
Jul 5, 2018 - GIRL Center Dataverse
Population Council, 2017, "Survey for Young People in Egypt (SYPE)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/89Y8YC, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:7zXNhevZtekEAx5qeZGIGg== [fileUNF]
Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) is a nationally representative sample of young people in the Middle East and North Africa. The 2009 survey included 15,000 young people between the ages of 10 and 29 from 11,000 households. The 2014 survey follows more than 10,000 original respondents. Gender-disaggregated information on health, schooling, emp... |
Jun 1, 2018
Nanlesta Pilgrim; Nrupa Jani; Sanyukta Mathur; Catherine Kahabuka; Vaibhav Saria; Neema Makyao; Lou Apicella; Julie Pulerwitz, 2018, "Replication Data for: Provider perspectives on PrEP for adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: The role of provider biases and quality of care", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZHZRMM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:UeFqqD874OgNZeWusceT2A== [fileUNF]
Background Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has the potential to reduce HIV acquisition among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, health care providers’ (HCPs) perspectives and interactions with potential clients can substantially influence effective provision of quality health services. We examine if HCPs’ k... |
May 29, 2018
Niranjan Saggurti; Laili Irani, 2018, "Evaluating the impact of the Parivartan project in improving maternal and child health behaviors among women in self-help groups in Bihar", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WPHXJK, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In the state of Bihar, the Population Council has been working to rigorously evaluate whether and how a broad range of interventions through self-help groups can lead to positive behavior change and access to services in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition. This dataset includes findings from a quasi-experimental study co... |
May 3, 2018
Timothy Abuya; Dennis Matanda; Francis Obare; Ben Bellows, 2018, "Evaluation of the impact of removal of user fees for maternal health services on universal health coverage in Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4TYWRA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:H+BTyEXbZqJLXwOTScx0pQ== [fileUNF]
The study built on similar previous studies focusing on health care financing conducted by the Population Council in collaboration with Government of Kenya and other partners. These include evaluation of the impact of reproductive health vouchers programs in five countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda); evaluation of performanc... |
Jan 2, 2018 - GIRL Center Dataverse
Population Council, 2017, "UDAYA, Adolescent Survey, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, 2015-16", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RRXQNT, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:4cMfLMnjHqhVRrPPA0eaZA== [fileUNF]
Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA) in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh is designed to establish the levels, patterns and trends in the situation of younger (10–14) and older (15–19) adolescents and to assess the factors that influence the quality of transitions they make. The corresponding datasets contain information on adolesc... |