Estimates show that, in 2019, only 41 per cent of students completed lower secondary and
28 per cent upper secondary education in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region (UNESCO,) …

Studies have linked the timing of sexual debut to unplanned pregnancies and sexually
transmissible infections, including HIV. Current understandings of sexual debut among …

Inequitable gender norms can contribute to rapid repeat pregnancies and adverse maternal
health outcomes among adolescent girls and young women. This study examined …

Introduction The incidence of single motherhood, as an alternative family form, has been
implicated in poor maternal and child health outcomes globally. In sub-Saharan Africa …

Abstract Background The United Nations Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
(UNIGME) indicates that child mortality is the death rate of children between age zero to five …

Objectives: To examine the process of condom discontinuation among members of the
National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria who had been required to take part in a compulsory …

This study examined how educational inequity and political violence exposed young single
mothers in the Ethiopia town of Awaday to a distinct disadvantage. Adopting a case study …

Premarital fertility, that is, childbearing before first marriage, is an important yet under
researched demographic topic in sub-Saharan Africa. In Zimbabwe, the distinction by marital …