Adolescent girls and young women: key populations for HIV epidemic control

RC Dellar, S Dlamini, QA Karim - Journal of the International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… obtained from adolescent- and youth-focused HIV prevention … of HIV prevention in young
women and adolescent girls to … that predispose adolescent girls and young women to HIV

What HIV programs work for adolescent girls?

K Hardee, J Gay, M Croce-Galis… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… of literature on HIV and adolescent girls and reviews the vulnerabilities of girls, articulates
the challenges of programming, develops a framework for addressing the needs of girls, and …

Centring adolescent girls and young women in the HIV and COVID-19 responses

A Goga, LG Bekker, P Van de Perre, W El-Sadr… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
… by HIV. In eastern and southern Africa in 2017, 79% of new HIV infections among 10–19-year-olds
were in females—each day about 460 adolescent girls became infected with HIV and …

Structural determinants of adolescent girls' vulnerability to HIV: views from community members in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique

C Underwood, J Skinner, N Osman… - Social science & medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
adolescent girls’ vulnerability to HIV and in anticipation of launching the Gender Initiative on
Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV … The Initiative sought to reach vulnerable adolescent girls ages 10–…

Evaluating the impact of the DREAMS partnership to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women in four settings: a study protocol

I Birdthistle, SB Schaffnit, D Kwaro, M Shahmanesh… - BMC Public Health, 2018 - Springer
HIV risk remains unacceptably high among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in
… DREAMS aims to reduce HIV incidence by 40% among AGYW over two years by addressing …

Recent levels and trends in HIV incidence rates among adolescent girls and young women in ten high-prevalence African countries: a systematic review and meta …

I Birdthistle, C Tanton, A Tomita, K de Graaf… - The Lancet Global …, 2019 - thelancet.com
… changed contexts of HIV risk, but the influence on HIV incidence among young women is
not clear. We aimed to summarise direct estimates of HIV incidence among adolescent girls

Association of HIV intervention uptake with HIV prevalence in adolescent girls and young women in South Africa

K Govender, S Beckett, T Reddy, RG Cowden… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
… In the present study, using a cross-sectional sample of adolescent girls and young women
… (1) describe HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviors among a sample of adolescent girls and …

Prevention of HIV in adolescent girls and young women: key to an AIDS-free generation

QA Karim, C Baxter, D Birx - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
… The promising global declines in HIV infection in young … adolescent girls and young women
at highest risk of HIV … ) include HIV prevention and treatment services for adolescent girls and …

The DREAMS core package of interventions: a comprehensive approach to preventing HIV among adolescent girls and young women

J Saul, G Bachman, S Allen, NF Toiv, C Cooney… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
HIV prevalence for female youth aged 15–24 is consistently higher than their male … 4]
with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) up to 14 times more likely to become HIV-infected …

Understanding HIV risks among adolescent girls and young women in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Lessons for DREAMS

A Ziraba, B Orindi, S Muuo, S Floyd, IJ Birdthistle… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… High incidence of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) has
been attributed to the numerous and often layered vulnerabilities that they encounter including …