Policy briefs
Explore our policy briefs which include key implications for policy and practice, based on our research.
Right on the Money (2024)
Making the case for rights-based investments in adolescent girls
Accelerating the Achievement of SDGs for Adolescent Girls (2023)
Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Mental health and antiretroviral treatment adherence among adolescents living with HIV. (2021)
Evidence on risk pathways and protective factors.
New evidence on the impacts of violence on ART adherence amongst adolescents living with HIV. (2022)
This brief uses data from a longitudinal cohort of adolescents living with HIV to examine violence experienced by adolescents living with HIV, associations between exposure ...
Increased screening for adolescents at high risk of Antiretroviral non-adherence. (2022)
A short and simple evidence-based screening mechanism using the World Health Organization endorsed HEADSS assessment and the HEADSS+ questionnaire.
Accelerating progress on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for adolescents in Nigeria (2022)
The study aimed at identifying protective factors that could be targeted by interventions to increase the pace at which adolescents in Nigeria could attain multiple ...
New evidence and programming. Implications for adolescent pathways in HIV care in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This brief summarises new evidence from a systematic review and a longitudinal study of 1000 adolescents living with HIV, as well as qualitative work with ...
Development accelerators for improved wellbeing of adolescents in Zambia. (2022)
Interventions such as social protection, safe schools, food security, parenting programmes, and psychosocial support when combined, are development accelerators that support young people in achieving ...
A new policy solution I The Lancet (2019)
The SDGs need countries to reach a wide range of integrated development goals and targets, with limited resources.
Impacts of the Ethiopian Health Extension Programme (HEP) on eleven areas of adolescent health and wellbeing (2021)
A quasi-experimental study 2002-2013
