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Elona Toska

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Professor/ Principal Research Officer

University of Cape Town

South Africa

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Adolescent Girls and Young Women Building Lives with Opportunity and Overall Meaning, Relational wellbeing, Transforming Health and Resilient Visions for Equitable wellbeing services (AGYW BLOOM & THRIVE).

Open Date: 2025-01-01

Close Date: 2027-01-01

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Accelerating Violence Prevention in Africa

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2026-01-01

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Undetectable and Untransmittable: reducing HIV transmission among young women living with HIV, their partners and children in South Africa

Open Date: 2019-08-05

Close Date: 2025-04-30

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GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub

Open Date: 2019-02-13

Close Date: 2024-09-29

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From Stop to Go! Overcoming barriers to healthcare utilisation for high-risk adolescent mothers and their children in Southern Africa.

Open Date: 2018-06-30

Close Date: 2021-12-31

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Collaborators (7)

Lucie Cluver

Professor

University of Oxford

UNITED KINGDOM

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Lucas Hertzog

AUSTRALIA

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Lesley Gittings

Assistant Professor

Western University

CANADA

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Anushka Ataullahjan

Assistant Professor

Western University

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Christina Laurenzi

Stellenbosch University

SOUTH AFRICA

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Aoife Doyle

Associate Professor

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

UNITED KINGDOM

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Helen Weiss

Professor of Epidemiology

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

UNITED KINGDOM

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Elona Toska

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Articles (20)

Mental health and workplace wellbeing among Frontline healthcare providers who provide HIV care to children, adolescents and their families: a mixed-methods study from twelve African countries

Well-care visit attendance among children of adolescent mothers in South Africa: a theory-informed mixed-methods study

Prioritising pregnant and parenting adolescents in the HIV and SRHR response

Exploring the mental health experiences of young mothers affected by HIV: Qualitative insights from the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Perspectives on post-violence support-seeking and service provision among adolescent girls and young women: Insights from community conversations in Lusaka, Zambia

Violence Victimisation and Mental Health Distress Among Adolescent Girls Living with HIV in Southern Africa: Does Social Protection Help?

Prevalence of low‐level viremia and its association with virological failure among adolescents living with HIV in Eastern Cape, South Africa

The potential effects of heat extremes on educational outcomes of children in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Peer providers delivering health and wellbeing services for adolescents and youth – a scoping review of implementation experience and impact from Eastern and Southern Africa

Oral PrEP use among pregnant or parenting young women in South Africa: evidence from a large community-based implementation study

Accelerating HIV Prevention in Cameroon: Factors Associated with Sexual Risk Behaviours and Increased HIV Exposure Among 15–19-Year-Old Adolescent Girls

“It was like climbing a mountain and not reaching the top”: experiences of South African youth living with HIV who became parents during COVID-19 lockdowns

Not one but two: cross-sectional associations among repeat pregnancy, maternal mental health and child cognitive outcomes among adolescent and young mothers in South Africa

Factors Associated with Retention in Routine Well-Care Visits Among Children of Adolescent Mothers Living With and Without HIV: A Community-Based Study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Accelerating the prevention of HIV and violence in adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe through multi-sectoral programming: Cross-sectional analysis of the 2017 violence against children survey

“Dream PrEP delivery package”: co-creating innovative PrEP delivery with pregnant or parenting young women in South Africa

Missed HIV prevention opportunities: the PrEP cascade among pregnant or parenting adolescent girls and young women in South Africa

Accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents

What combination of interventions can optimise HIV prevention for adolescent girls and young women? Cohort analysis of DREAMS participation in urban and rural Kenya

Supporting pregnant and mothering adolescents in their schooling: Insights for policy and practice

Collaborators (7)

Lucie Cluver

Lucas Hertzog

Lesley Gittings

Anushka Ataullahjan

Christina Laurenzi

Aoife Doyle

Helen Weiss

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