Table 7.
Programs and interventions targeting adolescent SRHR
| Name of the Intervention | City | Target | Study Design | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) (Austrian et al. 2015; Austrian et al.; 2018) | Nairobi | 11–14 years girls | Randomized trial | Building adolescent girls assets (education, health, and wealth creation); cash transfer, savings, financial education, SRHR education and violence prevention |
| Binti Pamoja Centre (Daughters United Centre) (Carolina for Kibera 2007) | Nairobi | 11–18 year girls | Community Intervention | Gender empowerment and creation of safe spaces for young people in order to 1) reduce violence, female genital mutilation, sexual abuse, rape, prostitution, and poverty; and 2) increase reproductive health knowledge, financial education, leadership and personal skills |
| BiruhTefta-Bright Future (Erulkar et al. 2013) | Addis Ababa | 10–19 years girls | Quasi-experimental | Addresses social isolation by building social capital, literacy, providing information on HIV, reproductive health and GBV |
| CHANGE (Khoza et al. 2018) | Johannesburg | 16–18 girls and boys | Randomized controlled trial | Examines the effects of unconditional versus conditional cash transfers on clinic and school attendance for HIV prevention |
| TRY-Tap and Reposition Youth (Hall, Dondo, and Sebstad 2006) | Nairobi | 16–22 years young women | Intervention study with matched comparison | Improve livelihoods through microfinance, life skills, financial literacy in order to reduce vulnerability to adverse SRHR outcomes |
| Stepping Stones (Gibbs et al. 2017) | Durban | 18-30 years (youth) | Cluster Randomized Control Trial | Comprehensive sexuality and behavior change communication (sexual health knowledge, communication skills, critical reflection and reduce sexual health risk) |
| Tupange (URHI-Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (Speizer et al. 2013) | Nairobi | 10-24 years (young people) | Community Intervention study | Building capacity of service providers, contraceptive commodity security, demand-promotion and advocacy (dispel myth and misconception about contraceptives) |
| Virtual support group (Khaya HIV Positive) (Henwood et al. 2016) | Cape Town | 12-25 years (young people) | Mhealth (social media) intervention study | Virtual support group. The chat-room used the MXit social networking platform to provide information on a youth-friendly HIV services (testing, treatment and care) and contraception |