Social support and very young adolescent girl's knowledge on sexual relationships: A comparative qualitative study of Girl Only Clubs' participants and non-participants in rural Malawi.

ABSTRACT: Early sexual relationships are associated with an increased risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDs, teenage pregnancies, and unsafe abortions among other negative health outcomes. Understanding sexual relationships among very young adolescents (VYAs) is important to equip them to protect themselves from negative sexual health (SH) outcomes. DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe) is an HIV prevention initiative that provided an evidence-based core package of interventions to VYAs to prevent HIV acquisition in 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Girl Only Club (GOC) was the primary context for the interventions. Our objective in this study was to explore if there was any difference in social support (SS) received concerning se

SUBMITTER: Chimwaza-Manda W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022037 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature