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Table 7 Programs and interventions targeting adolescent SRHR

From: Nature of, and responses to key sexual and reproductive health challenges for adolescents in urban slums in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review

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