ArticleVulnerable children and youth studies2012
Reducing sexual risk taking behaviors among adolescents who engage in transactional sex in post-conflict Liberia.
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- A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of School Based Interventions on Sexual Risk Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Young Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2021Pooled it
- Demographic and Psychosocial Factors Associated With Child Sexual Exploitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2020Pooled it
- School-based interventions for improving contraceptive use in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
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- Examining the Influence of Trauma Exposure on HIV Sexual Risk Between Men and Women in Post-Conflict Liberia.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Youth engagement in HIV prevention intervention research in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Article
- A syndemic of psychosocial and mental health problems in Liberia: Examining the link to transactional sex among young pregnant women.Global public health · 2019Article
- A forgotten group during humanitarian crises: a systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people including adolescents in humanitarian settings.Conflict and health · 2019Review
- Sexual and physical abuse and its determinants among street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2016.BMC pediatrics · 2018Article
- Examining relationships of intimate partner violence and food insecurity with HIV-related risk factors among young pregnant Liberian women.AIDS care · 2018Article
- Preliminary Impacts of an HIV-Prevention Program Targeting Out-of-School Youth in Postconflict Liberia.Global pediatric health · 2018Article
- The impact of transactional sex with teachers on public school students in Monrovia, Liberia - a brief report.Vulnerable children and youth studies · 2017Article
- Evaluations of reproductive health programs in humanitarian settings: a systematic review.Conflict and health · 2015Article
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Abstract
Transactional sex (TS) has been correlated with HIV/STD infection, pregnancy, early marriage, and sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Few Western-based HIV prevention programs adapted for SSA have examined intervention impacts for this group. This article examines whether an HIV prevention intervention, delivered to sixth-grade students in Liberia (age range 14-17) and found to increase condom use and other mediators for the larger sample, significantly impacted sexual behaviors and mediators for those who engaged in TS. Using an attention-matched, group-randomized controlled design, four matched pairs of elementary schools in Monrovia, Liberia, were randomly assigned to an adapted eight-module HIV prevention or a general health curriculum. Nine-month impacts of the intervention on sexual risk behaviors and mediators for those who engaged in TS, when compared with other study participants, are presented. Twelve percent of our sample of sixth graders (
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