Background Early sexual debut among adolescents is associated with considerable
negative heath and development outcomes. An understanding of the determinants or …

Background Young people are becoming increasingly exposed to the risk of HIV infection.
According to the 2008 HIV/Syphilis sentinel survey in Nigeria, 3.3% of young people aged …

Background Annually, over 1 million births in Nigeria are to teenage mothers. Many of these
pregnancies are unwanted and these mothers are also exposed to the risk of human …

Background The last three decades have seen a series of HIV interventions in sub-Saharan
Africa. However, youths still have a mixture of correct and incorrect HIV/AIDS knowledge of …

Background: Globally, unintended births among unmarried adolescent girls are a major
contributor to maternal and childhood mortality, the vicious cycle of ill-health, poverty, and …

This study examined the factors that influence condom-use among young never-married
males in Nigeria. Such information can help improve the design of a prevention programme …

The high rates of youth migration to urban and economic centers, in the context of persistent
poverty and devastating HIV/AIDS burden, have raised intricate social policy challenges in …

Background Obesity is a risk factor for hypertension. The study observed the relationship
between adolescent weight status and blood pressure (BP) and the determinants of the BP …

Purpose To examine the timing and circumstances of first sex among urban female and
male youth in Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. Methods Recently collected data are used to …

Cohabitation in tertiary institutions in Nigeria has continued to attract scholarly attention
because of the strong assumption that the phenomenon portents erosion to some of the …