This collaboration with the Global Fund was a 3-year project supported by the Adolescent Girls and Young Women Strategic Initiative has a focused goal: to support AGYW HIV incidence reduction and optimal HIV-related outcomes. Our work informed efficient, integrated service provision across sectors, especially important given budgetary constraints to improve progress towards HIV incidence reduction targets for AGYW.
UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub generated evidence on which specific development accelerators can best support adolescents in Africa in attaining the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It was a partnership between governments, international agencies, NGOs, donors, adolescents and academics in Africa, Europe and North America. It brought together interdisciplinary research teams using trials, cohorts and adolescent participation all focused on supporting children and young people in thriving in the second decade of life: adolescence. This work was funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and operated from Oxford University’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention and the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Social Science Research. Visit their website to learn more www.acceleratehub.org