Young People, Violence and Strategic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Introduction.- Young men's perceptions and experiences of gender-based violence in Sub-Saharan African: A systematic review of the literature.- 'My health is my responsibility': Realities of LGBT youth's access to health care in South Africa.- Catalyzing action on violence against pregnant women.- COVID-19, Online Sexual Harassment and Social Media: A study of Internet-facilitated Violence Against Women during the Pandemic Lockdown.- Factors leading to Xenophobic Violence and its Impact on Youth Immigrant Informal Traders in the City of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.- Effective linkages of young people to SRHR services as protective measures against adolescent sexual and gender-based violence.- Strategic resistance against violence affiliated with Covid-19 pandemic.- Microaggressions in schools and communities: The case of perinatally HIV-infected youth in South Africa.- "Secure the bag": young women's agencies towards better vs bare lifestyles.- Youth Exclusion and Violence as Intervention: The EndSARS Protest as Metaphor in Nigeria.- Conclusion.

Kammila Naidoo, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology who currently works in the area of family dynamics and gender-based violence. Her Ph.D, which she completed at the University of Manchester, UK, focused on women's experiences of poverty, childbearing, and marital instability. She has over the past 20 years supervised to completion 20 Ph.D theses, 28 MA dissertations and 36 Honours projects on topics linked to gender, politics, health and sexuality and has externally examined a similar number of projects. Dr. Naidoo has published widely in local and international journals, highlighting familial crises, crisis-led transitions, contradictions between formal rights and lived realities, and persistent gender discriminations. She has completed four special issues of journals; the last one published (with Oluwafemi Adeagbo and Melanie Pleaner as co-editors) in September 2019, was entitled, 'Adolescence, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Sub-SaharanAfrica'. She is interested in community-based interventions as a key strategy to end the scourge of violence against women in African countries.
Oluwafemi Adeagbo, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health in the United States. Dr Adeagbo is an applied socio-behavioral scientist with extensive research experience working collaboratively with local and international institutions on HIV-related research. He has conducted research with adolescents, youth, and older people. He has explored the impact of class, race, gender, education, violence, substance use, employment status, and other related factors on individual health over time. His research activities have focused on global health, stigma reduction interventions, telehealth interventions, HIV treatment and prevention, sexual and gender minority health, implementation science and evaluation of interventions. He was recently recognized by the African Academy of Science