A cover picture for Families Matter: How Families Improve Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health, contains a picture of a little girl teaching her mother something from a book. There is a large body of evidence in high-income countries that family-based interventions are an effective way to improve health outcomes for adolescents. Family-based approaches incorporate a theoretical framework that explores how the family system may influence health behaviors in youth. However, less is known about the effectiveness of family-based interventions in low- and middle-income countries.

This brief aims to highlight existing evidence on family-based adolescent and youth reproductive health (AYRH) interventions that will help program implementers and researchers design appropriate interventions to better address the reproductive health needs of adolescents in LMICs. For this brief, the term ‘family-based’ refers to interventions that engage adolescent girls and boys, parents, caregivers, and extended family members.

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