Mentoring Interventions and the Impact of Protective Assets on the Reproductive Health of Adolescent Girls and Young Women

A cover picture for the article on mentoring Interventions and the Impact of Protective Assets on the Reproductive Health of Adolescent Girls and Young Women Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS and other negative reproductive health (RH) outcomes. Emerging evidence suggests that programs to build AGYW’s assets can help reduce their vulnerability to poor RH. Mentoring interventions have demonstrated a positive impact on a variety of youth development outcomes, including the protective assets needed to circumvent poor RH outcomes. The purpose of this review was to understand the types of mentoring programs for AGYW that have demonstrated effectiveness in improving protective assets, and/or, RH knowledge, intentions, behaviors, or outcomes themselves. Interventions were identified through an electronic search of the peer-reviewed and the gray literature. Studies were excluded in stages based on reviews of titles, abstracts, and full text. A review of 491publications yielded a total of 19 articles that were included in the final review.

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