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"...e-readers with engaging books along with facilitated book groups have the potential to enhance basic literacy and non-verbal reasoning ability in the short term with possible longer-term consequences for the health and wellbeing of young women in a low-income setting."

"Findings support the use of SMS text message reminders as a convenient and acceptable method to minimize parental forgetfulness and potentially reduce appointment no-shows."

"The more we ignore data use, we cant understand its benefit then we dont care about its quality." - respondent

"...insights into the perspectives of program managers, health workers, and community members which should inform countries as they consider integrating different health services over the life course." - Samantha Noor, JSI Experience indicates that, for a primary health care system to be people centred and responsive to population needs throughout

"...misinformation was the major driver of the very low HPV vaccination uptake by private-sector school girls whose caregivers participated in this study..." The viral spread of social media misinformation and disinformation regarding human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination safety has resulted in widespread vaccine hesitancy and suboptimal HPV vacci

"Evidence linking scaled mHealth messaging programmes to changes in health outcomes is limited...which may impede sustainability and further expansion."

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"...findings will add to the existing knowledge base of interventions for girls in humanitarian settings, and strengthen the evidence-base for girl-centered programming more broadly" - Population Council Liberia has high levels of interpersonal and sexual violence (SV) continue to occur, particularly in areas that saw high conflict events and fatal

"Never stop learning. Change the world." This video is a "skill shot" or a short course for programme managers, donor organisations, and family planning (FP)/reproductive health (RH) practitioners in learning how social and behaviour change (SBC) interventions can guide and amplify the effectiveness of FP and RH programmes.

"You can help turn this into agenda into action!" There is global interest in better understanding and applying social-norms-shifting approaches to improve the reproductive health and wellbeing of adolescents and youth.