Cluster randomized evaluation of the Nia Project: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The onset of puberty and menarche is a specifically vulnerable time for girls, during which they begin to show interest in the opposite sex, while becoming exposed to a myriad of external pressures, including sexual coercion or harassment from boys and men, expectations to marry from their families, and the need to perform well in primary school in order to qualify for secondary school. According to several qualitative studies in Africa, such pressures are exacerbated by girls' lack of knowledge of their bodies, their rights, and the implications of their decisions, and by their inability to manage puberty and adolescence safely and comfortably with appropriate menstrual health and hygiene management (MHM) products. The evaluation of the Nia Project is one of the first t

SUBMITTER: Muthengi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6310925 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature