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Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study over 18 months

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  • Michele R Decker Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USABill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kristin Bevilacqua Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shannon N Wood Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USABill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Grace Wamue Ngare Department of Sociology, Gender and Development Studies, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, KenyaWomen’s Economic Empowerment Hub, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mary Thiongo International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Meagan E Byrne Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USABill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anaise Williams Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bianca Devoto Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nancy Glass Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lori Heise Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter Gichangi International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya, Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Michele R Decker; mdecker{at}jhu.edu
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Decker MR, Bevilacqua K, Wood SN, et al
Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study over 18 months
BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e007807.

Publication history

  • Received October 25, 2021
  • Accepted January 20, 2022
  • First published February 24, 2022.
Online issue publication 
February 24, 2022

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