Reducing sexual risk taking behaviors among adolescents who engage in transactional sex in post-conflict Liberia

Atwood, Katharine A.; Kennedy, Stephen B.; Shamblen, Steve; Taylor, Curtis H.; Quaqua, Monica; Bee, Ernree M.; Gobeh, Mawen E.; Woods, Daisajou V.; Dennis, Barclay

doi:10.1080/17450128.2011.647773

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“…Eight papers reported HIV and/or STI knowledge, attitudes and behavior results following HIV prevention programs. Two papers reported on a group randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention on sexual risk behaviors of in-school 6 th graders in Liberia [ 35 , 36 ], and six used post-intervention surveys to assess program effectiveness in four African countries [ 37 - 42 ]. All of the papers reported mixed results of their prevention programs regarding some elements of knowledge and behavior change; however, the four that follow reported more positive results.…”

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Evaluations of reproductive health programs in humanitarian settings: a systematic review

Casey

2015

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Provision of reproductive health (RH) services is a minimum standard of health care in humanitarian settings; however access to these services is often limited. This systematic review, one component of a global evaluation of RH in humanitarian settings, sought to explore the evidence regarding RH services provided in humanitarian settings and to determine if programs are being evaluated. In addition, the review explored which RH services receive more attention based on program evaluations and descriptive data. Peer-reviewed papers published between 2004 and 2013 were identified via the Ovid MEDLINE database, followed by a PubMed search. Papers on quantitative evaluations of RH programs, including experimental and non-experimental designs that reported outcome data, implemented in conflict and natural disaster settings, were included. Of 5,669 papers identified in the initial search, 36 papers describing 30 programs met inclusion criteria. Twenty-five papers described programs in sub-Saharan Africa, six in Asia, two in Haiti and three reported data from multiple countries. Some RH technical areas were better represented than others: seven papers reported on maternal and newborn health (including two that also covered family planning), six on family planning, three on sexual violence, 20 on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and two on general RH topics. In comparison to the program evaluation papers identified, three times as many papers were found that reported RH descriptive or prevalence data in humanitarian settings. While data demonstrating the magnitude of the problem are crucial and were previously lacking, the need for RH services and for evaluations to measure their effectiveness is clear. Program evaluation and implementation science should be incorporated into more programs to determine the best ways to serve the RH needs of people affected by conflict or natural disaster. Standard program design should include rigorous program evaluation, and the results must be shared. The papers demonstrated both that RH programs can be implemented in these challenging settings, and that women and men will use RH services when they are of reasonable quality.

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confidence: 99%

Evaluations of reproductive health programs in humanitarian settings: a systematic review

Casey

2015

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“…Other factors simply provide opportunities for sexual practice and are related to risky sexual behaviors, such as those in a romantic relationship [15,19]. While these other factors have been related to risky sexual behaviors, studies have shown even controlling for these important precursors, one particular factor still has a strong relationship with risky sexual behaviors-sexual content in the media or sexually explicit media (SEM) [20][21][22]. Strasburger et al [23] concluded sexual content in the media is a significant factor that influences children and teens in sexually-related behaviors, attitudes, and believes.…”

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“…Velezmoro and colleagues [65] have argued that studying sexual expression in different cultural settings sheds much light on the similarities and differences of the same phenomenon across cultures. Furthermore, some Asian countries suffer from increasing prevalence of STIs, such as an increased rate of HIV infection among young population in China [53,66] and South Korea [67] and both HIV and other STIs (e.g., gonorrhea) are at their highest rates among adolescents and young adults (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) in Taiwan [8]. Although a few studies have been conducted and yielded similar results, these studies also suffered from the aforementioned limitations [68,[53][54].…”

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Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood

Lin¹,

Liu

Chen

2020

PLoS ONE

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BackgroundSexually explicit media exposure during early adolescence has been found to be associated with risky sexual behavior. However, previous study suffered from methodological issue, such as selection bias. Furthermore, little is known about the effect of multi-modality sexually explicit media exposure on risky sexual behavior, and how this relationship can be applied to non-western societies.

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“…No study provides effects for adolescents with physical disabilities, for adolescent first-time parents or for adolescent sex workers. For this last category, we did not include the study that focused on girls who had engaged in transactional sex at least once in the past (Atwood et al 2012a). …”

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Adolescent sexual and reproductive health: scoping the impact of programming in low- and middle-income countries

Rankin¹,

Heard²,

Diaz³

2017

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The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is an international grant-making nongovernmental organisation promoting evidence-informed development policies and programmes. We are the global leader in funding and producing high-quality evidence of what works, for whom, why and at what cost. We believe that better and policy-relevant evidence will help make development more effective and improve people's lives. 3ie scoping papers 3ie develops its thematic grant programmes in a particular development area or sector through an organised scoping process. This multifaceted exercise helps ensure that new windows address priorities for evidence production where evidence is limited and gaps have been identified. 3ie scopes the demand for evidence through consultation with potential users, including policymakers, programme managers, researchers and civil society. Scoping exercises usually include producing an evidence map of interventions and outcomes of included studies and reviews. This aids identification of where more or better evidence is needed and where evidence is sufficient for producing systematic reviews. Other scoping can include reviewing existing programming and funding. The results include priority questions for which there is demand for answers. Scoping papers consolidate this information into a justification for what a thematic grant programme will address. About this paper3ie conducted scoping work on adolescent sexual and reproductive health to assess evidence on the effectiveness of related programmes in low-and middle-income countries, and to identify priorities for funding new 3ie impact evaluations and systematic reviews in this area. An evidence gap map is reported in this paper, and is also available in the 3ie Evidence Gap Map Report series, Adolescent sexual and reproductive health: an evidence gap map. An interactive version of the map is available on the 3ie website. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation provided funding for this scoping project.All of the content is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not represent the opinions of 3ie, its donors or its Board of Commissioners. Any errors and omissions are also the sole responsibility of the authors. Any comments or queries should be directed to the corresponding author, Kristen Rankin, at krankin@3ieimpact.org. AcknowledgementsWe are extremely grateful to James Jarvis-Thiébault, Nadine Pfeifer, Mark Englebert, Julie Perng and Ashley Holst for their research assistance. We could not have done this work without the support and leadership of Annette N Brown and further technical support and review comments from Beryl Leach. We appreciate Edoardo Masset's helpful review comments on the evidence gap map. 3ie developed the evidence gap map with guidance and input from an advisory group, who also reviewed this draft. We are very thankful to its members, listed below. Additionally, 3ie would like to thank the wide range of stakeholders who participated in consultative workshops and a roundtable. A complete list of particip...

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Reducing sexual risk taking behaviors among adolescents who engage in transactional sex in post-conflict Liberia

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Evaluations of reproductive health programs in humanitarian settings: a systematic review

Evaluations of reproductive health programs in humanitarian settings: a systematic review

Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health: scoping the impact of programming in low- and middle-income countries

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