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Understanding and supporting pregnant and parenting adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa

Adolescent childbearing is common in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Early childbearing places girls on a trajectory of social exclusion with significant implications for their health and wellbeing and that of their offspring. Beyond the health risks associated with early childbearing, girls who become pregnant often drop out of school, with dire socio-economic implications. Their children also face marginalization because of their parents’ limited resources to care for them, resulting in their vulnerability to early and unintended pregnancy, disempowerment, and lack of economic mobility.

Editors

  • Dr. Caroline Kabiru

    Dr. Caroline Kabiru leads the Population Dynamics and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Unit at the African Population and Health Research Center—a Pan-African research institution and think tank that generates evidence to drive policy action to improve the health and wellbeing of African people. Caroline, who has a PhD in Health Promotion and Behavior from the University of Georgia, has over 15 years of experience conducting research in sub-Saharan Africa. Much of her research focuses on young people’s health and well-being in low-resource and marginalized urban settings and covers topics ranging from reproductive to mental health.

  • Anthony Ajayi

    Anthony Ajayi is an Associate Research Scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center. He serves as a principal investigator on the Challenging the Politics of Social Exclusion project, which aims to support the establishment of a robust evidence base that can strengthen policy engagement and advocacy efforts to advance the domestication and implementation of continental commitments on adolescent sexual and reproductive health at sub-regional and national levels in sub-Saharan Africa. He has participated in several stakeholder engagement fora to shape policies on adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

  • Dr. Lorretta Favour C. Ntoimo

    Dr. Lorretta Favour C. Ntoimo is a Social Demographer with eleven years of experience in teaching and research. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. She is a highly motivated and result-oriented researcher whose goal is to contribute to sexual and reproductive health, population health, family demography, and singlehood research in Africa. She has actively contributed in these fields through publications in reputable journals, field intervention research, editorship of journals, presentations in conferences and meetings, and mentoring of younger scholars.

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