Meagan E. Byrne

TL;DR: In this paper, an existing cohort of youth ages 16-26 in Nairobi, Kenya completed a phone-based survey in August-October 2020 (n = 1217), supplemented by virtual focus group discussions and interviews with youth and stakeholders, to examine economic, health, social, and safety experiences during COVID-19 and gender disparities therein.

TL;DR: In this article , a cohort of youth ages 15-24 in Nairobi, Kenya was surveyed at three time points over an 18-month period prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: The Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 project implemented a multi-country sub-project called PMA Agile, a system of continuous data collection for a probability sample of urban public and private health facilities and their clients that began November 2017 and concluded December 2019 to monitor the supply, quality and consumption of family planning services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterized relationship power imbalances (age disparity, intimate partner violence [IPV], partner-related fear, transactional sex, and transactional partnerships), and evaluated associations with modern contraceptive use, and sexual/reproductive autonomy threats (condom removal/stealthing), reproductive coercion, ability to refuse sex and contraceptive confidence).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors that influence women's decisions about where to terminate their pregnancy and identify factors hindering women's ability to operationalize their preferences, and highlighted the diversity of women's abortion care preferences in a legally restricted environment.