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Exploring the Intersection of Adolescent Girls’ Reproductive Health and Economic Empowerment
Joy Cunningham Senior Technical Officer, Research UtilizationFHI 360
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Adolescent girls face multiple sexual and reproductive health challenges and
economic disparities
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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Girls
Adolescent girls face:
• Increased vulnerability to HIV and other STIs
• High rates of sexual violence
• High rates of pregnancy
• Increased risk of maternal mortality and morbidity
• High rates of early marriage
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Economic Inequality Among Adolescent Girls
• 70% of out-of-school youth are girls
• Young women are less likely to be employed than young men
• Young women earn lower wages than young men
• Adolescent girls have more household responsibilities than boys
• Social and gender norms hinder economic opportunity
• Social isolation reduces adolescent girls’ ability to find work
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Economic disparity is both a cause and a consequence of negative sexual and
reproductive health outcomes
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Economic Disparity is a Cause of Negative SRH Outcomes
Girls with low socioeconomic standing (SES)are at risk of:
• Intergenerational relationships
• Early marriage
• Transactional sex
• Sexual violence
• Intimate partner violence
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Negative SRH Outcomes are a Cause of Economic Disparity
Early and unintended pregnancy • Girls who become pregnant are more
likely to leave school early, bear more children at shorter intervals, and have a lower income throughout their lifetime
HIV infection • Possible cognitive impairment with
long-term ARV use • Inability to work because of illness • Stigma surrounding HIV can affect the ability to find and keep work• Vulnerability among females is exacerbated by the informal nature of
work
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IYWG and Economic Empowerment for YSRH
FHI 360 manages the technical content for USAID’s Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG)
• YouthLens brief on the intersection of economic empowerment and youth sexual and reproductive health
• Upcoming e-forum discussion onmultisectoral programs for youth
• New topic pages on IYWG.org underway—Livelihoods, Conditional Cash Transfer
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Today’s Panel
• Population Council’s "Siyakha Nentsha" initiative
• ICRW and CARE Ethiopia’s TESFA initiative
• Restless Development’s Youth Empowerment and Right to Return programs
• FHI 360’s STRIVE program