Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
The Population Council is conducting implementation science research in Zambia and other countries across sub-Saharan Africa to build needed evidence to inform community-based, girl-centered HIV-prevention programming. Critical to this process is understanding adolescent girls’ and young women’s (AGYWs’) knowledge, attitudes, sexual behaviors, and characteristics of their sexual partnerships that may put them at risk of HIV acquisition. This results brief summarizes key findings from a cross-sectional survey of 1,915 AGYW, half of whom were 15–19 years old and the other half 20–24 years old, residing in urban districts of Lusaka and Ndola. The findings in this brief were shared at a data interpretation workshop in Lusaka in June 2017.
Recommended Citation
Population Council. 2018. "What do we know about the HIV risk characteristics of adolescent girls and young women in Zambia? Findings from DREAMS implementation science research," DREAMS Results Brief. Washington, DC: Population Council.
DOI
10.31899/hiv5.1024
Language
English
Project
Reducing HIV Risk among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Implementation Science around the DREAMS Initiative
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