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Prevalence and patterns of gender-based violence across adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya.

Parinita BhattacharjeeHuiting MaHelgar MusyokiEve CheukShajy IsacMargaret NjirainiPeter GichangiSharmistha MishraMarissa BeckerMichael Pickles
Published in: BMC women's health (2020)
AGYW in these settings experience high vulnerability to physical, sexual and police violence. However, AGYW are not a homogeneous group, and there are heterogeneities in prevalence and predictors of violence between subgroups of AGYW that need to be understood to design effective programmes to address violence.
Keyphrases
  • mental health
  • risk factors
  • intimate partner violence