Adolescent pregnancy and motherhood are highly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where early parenthood is closely linked to school dropout and constrained opportunities.
The issue of adolescent pregnancy is still a major health and social concern, especially among the low- and middle-income population, where disparities in education, service access, and gender inequality continue to exist.
Access to basic education in Ghana is constrained by nutritional, material, and learning resource constraints.
This article estimates the effect of sex education in a large-scale cluster randomized trial covering a third of Botswana that varied both the message and the messenger.
The increasing pervasiveness of digital technologies in adolescent life has heightened concerns about gender-based cyberviolence, especially toward girls, LGBTQI+ youth, and other marginalized groups.
The report draws on an analysis of data gathered through a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, enabling the phenomenon of violence to be examined from multiple perspectives and across different levels.
The 2025 Zanzibar Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS) and Global School Health Policies and Practices Survey (G-SHPPS) provide the most comprehensive assessment to date of adolescent health behaviours and school health environments in Zanzibar.
School-based nutrition interventions are widely used to improve nutrition among children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.
What do adolescents and young people need from sexuality education and how do they want to learn about it?
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) – the coexistence of undernutrition and overweight/obesity – poses a critical global health challenge, particularly for children and adolescents.