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Adolescent sexual and reproductive health

This section includes critical evaluations of published systematic reviews on pregnancy prevention and HIV/AIDS-related interventions to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. These abstracts are originally published in the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), which is maintained by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, United Kingdom. The abstracts below are reproduced with the permission of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.

Pregnancy prevention

- School-based teenage pregnancy prevention programs: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

- The effectiveness of adolescent reproductive health interventions in developing countries: a review of the evidence

Sexually transmitted infections, including HIV

- A systematic review of the effectiveness of primary prevention programs to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in adolescents

- Effectiveness of the 40 adolescent AIDS-risk reduction interventions: a quantitative review

- HIV prevention interventions in adolescent girls: what is the state of the science?

- HIV sexual risk-reduction interventions for youth: a review and methodological critique of randomized controlled trials

- Interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS among adolescents in less developed countries: are they effective?

USEFUL LINKS

GFMER
Link to obstetrics and gynaecology guidelines on the web

Women's Health Specialist Library
UK NHS knowledge gateway to women's health

Alan Guttmacher Institute
Resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health

Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group
Preparing and maintaining systematic reviews of interventions to combat HIV/AIDS

MedlinePlus - HIV/AIDS
Consumer information on HIV/AIDS topics from US National Library of Medicine

DARE
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects contains over 5000 abstracts of quality assessed and critically appraised systematic reviews.



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