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ArticleContemporary social science2025

Accelerating achievement for Africa's adolescents.

Lorraine Sherr, Lucie Cluver, Chris Desmond, Mark Orkin, William Rudgard, Elona Toska, Olayinka Omigbodun, Marisa Casale, Kate Orkin, Charles Falajiki and 8 more

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18 authors.

Lorraine SherrInstitute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
Lucie CluverDepartment of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Chris DesmondCentre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Mark OrkinMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
William RudgardDepartment of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Elona ToskaCentre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Olayinka OmigbodunCentre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Marisa CasaleSchool of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Kate OrkinBlavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Charles FalajikiDepartment of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Evelyn GitauScience for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.
Henriques AndelaFaculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique.
Heidi StöcklInstitute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Elleke BoehmerFaculty of English, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Douglas WebbUnited Nations Development Programme, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Louise GordonDepartment of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Mandeep DhaliwalUnited Nations Development Programme, New York, NY, USA.
Franziska MeinckSchool of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

San Diego Clinical and Translational Research InstituteUL1TR000100 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI FIRESTEIN, GARY S · 2012 to 2015
$19.7M
Undetectable and Untransmittable: reducing HIV transmission among young women living with HIV, their partners and children in South AfricaK43TW011434 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · PI TOSKA, ELONA · 2019 to 2023
$720k
FIC NIH HHS K43 TW011434NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By 2050, one in four people in the world will live in Africa. The region's adolescents are our present and future but need effective services to support their holistic health and wellbeing, advance their education, allow them to flourish, and protect them from adversity. This paper reviews evidence for a new concept of 'development accelerators': interventions that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Across 26 studies, the most frequently identified accelerators were government-provided social protection, positive parenting including good supervision of their adolescents, adolescent-friendly healthcare and childcare, positive gender norms, and psychosocial support. These have been shown to be highly cost-effective, giving substantial returns on investment, especially when applied in combination.

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acceleratorsAdolescentsAfricaeducationhealthviolence

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PMID41778213
PMCPMC12952748

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