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Women's perspectives on marriage and rights in Morocco: risk factors for forced and early marriage in the Marrakech region Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Women's perspectives on marriage and rights in Morocco: risk factors for forced and early marriage in the Marrakech region Ghent University
Overcoming coloniality in adolescent health programmes : harnessing cultural values and the indigenous roles of grandmothers to promote girls’ holistic development in Senegal Ghent University
Decolonial and feminist scholars have long pointed out that theory and praxis in global health and gender and development employ models of gender and social change that are Euro-North-American-centric and fit poorly with cultural realities and community dynamics in the global South. Interventions informed by these biases are often minimally effective and can cause backlash or resistance. In this paper, we unpack how coloniality informs some of ...
"… I would have left that man long time ago but, …" exploring circumstances of and motivators for repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda Institute of Tropical Medicine
BACKGROUND: First birth before 18 years has declined in Uganda unlike repeat adolescent birth (=second or more births before age 20 years). We explored the circumstances of and motivators for repeat adolescent birth in Eastern Uganda.
METHODS: Between January and March 2020, we conducted a qualitative study involving 70 individual in-depth interviews with purposively selected respondents - 20-25-year-old women with and without repeat ...