Too Young to Wed: the Lives, Rights and Health of Young Married Girls

Provides data on the rates of child marriage throughout the developing world, and its effect on young girls and on the economy of developing countries. Calls for continued effort to develop innovative strategies to counter this practice

Youth Reproductive Health in Nepal: Is Participation the Answer?

Discusses the processes and results of a multi-year research study by ICRW, EngenderHealth, and Nepali partners, which tested the effectiveness of the participatory approach in defining and addressing the reproductive health concerns of adolescents

The Promise of the Dual Prevention Pill

Presentation at the webinar Can Fantasies Become Realties? The Quest for Multi-purpose Prevention Products Webinar description: Multipurpose prevention technologies, or MPTs, are products designed to simultaneously prevent HIV, other STIs, and/or unintended pregnancy. Internal and external condoms are the only MPTs currently available and, while effective, they are less than desirable for many sexually active humans on the planet. Humans need and deserve a suite of options, and the more types of protection an option provides, the more likely it will be used. Expert presenters shared updates and perspectives about the MPT research pipeline, focusing on the products closest to actual roll-out and implementation. The webinar was made possible through a collaboration between AIDS Foundation Chicago and AVAC, with funding provided by Merck

Making It Work: Linking Youth Reproductive Health and Livelihoods

Assesses the challenges and effectiveness of programs that integrate adolescent reproductive health with options that improve economic capabilities, assets, and activities. Highlights innovative approaches, and defines gaps in existing interventions

Building evidence to guide PrEP introduction for adolescent girls and young women

This document was developed by the Population Council, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to provide DREAMS country teams with practical guidance on building evidence to guide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) introduction for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). The primary audiences for this document are health policymakers and program planners who will be making decisions about how PrEP is introduced and the researchers who will assess AGYW’s specific needs and experiences. Our aim is to complement emerging global guidance on PrEP and ongoing work regarding delivery platforms, marketing, and policy and regulatory frameworks for PrEP introduction more generally. We focus on examining the factors that influence informed choice, demand, and use of PREP by young women and that influence client–provider interactions. Further, this document can serve as a useful guide to gather data on user, community, and provider perspectives as countries move from introduction to broad-based implementation of PrEP

Who Is Doing the Research? The Implications of the Pandemic for Researchers in the Population Sciences

This essay explores widening gender gaps in research productivity during the pandemic, long-term career impacts for those entering the field, and potential trends in education and employment

Opportunities for SGBV data collection in the time of COVID-19: The value of implementation science

In this blog post for the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), Council researchers highlight the tension between the need to gather data to support women facing unprecedented vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reality that the very act of data collection may heighten risk. They also present opportunities for ethical sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) data collection during the pandemic