The impact of the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) on short and long term social, economic, education and fertility outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Zambia

Background Adolescent girls in Zambia face risks and vulnerabilities that challenge their healthy development into young women: early marriage and childbearing, sexual and gender-based violence, unintended pregnancy and HIV. The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) was designed to address the...

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Published in:BMC public health 2020-03, Vol.20 (1), p.349-15, Article 349
Main Authors: Austrian, Karen, Soler-Hampejsek, Erica, Behrman, Jere R., Digitale, Jean, Jackson Hachonda, Natalie, Bweupe, Maximillian, Hewett, Paul C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceptability
Adolescent girls
Adolescents
Age
Aggression
Assets
Behavior
Biostatistics
Career development
Childbearing
Childbirth & labor
Clinical trials
Domestic violence
Economic aspects
Economic change
Economic conditions
Economics
Education
Elementary education
Empowerment
Environmental Health
Epidemiology
Fairness
Females
Fertility
Fertility clinics
Finance
Gender
Gender equality
Gender inequality
Gender-based violence
Girls
Global health
Health aspects
Health behavior
Health information
Health services
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Intervention
Intimate partner violence
Life skills
Literacy
Marriage
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Meetings
Power
Pregnancy
Provinces
Public Health
Randomized controlled trial
Registration
Reproductive health
Research Article
Rural areas
Safe spaces
Savings
Savings accounts
Self-efficacy
Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual behavior
Sexual harassment
Sexual health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social aspects
Social power
STD
Studies
Teenage girls
Teenage pregnancy
Teenagers
Unwanted pregnancy
Vaccine
Violence
Women's health
Womens health
Young women
Zambia
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