Assessing the Preliminary Effects of a Multisectoral Agricultural Intervention on Adolescent Girls' Health

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · Nov 13, 2018

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ClinConnect Summary

Food insecurity (FI) and poverty are important drivers of HIV vulnerability among adolescent girls, and contribute to worse sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. While most approaches to improving adolescent SRH outcomes have focused on individual-centered approaches alone, integrated family-level interventions that address the underlying context for risk behaviors such as poverty and FI may be more effective in reducing adverse SRH outcomes. A household-level multisectoral agricultural and finance intervention in Nyanza Region, Kenya called Shamba Maisha (SM) designed to mitigate ...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • an adult participating in the parent study
• • a currently unmarried adolescent girl aged 13-20 years old (preferred target of 15-19)
• • the adolescent girl has a parent/primary guardian age \>18 years old who resides in the household
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • adolescent girls with a confirmed HIV diagnosis by clinical records prior to the start of SM
• • married adolescent girls
• • those who do not speak Dholuo, Swahili, or English
• • those who are heads of households
• • those ages 18 to 20 who are enrolled in the parent study
• • those with inadequate cognitive and/or hearing capacity.