On 25 November, Joan Njagi successfully defended her PhD thesis on the use of ICTs and the navigation of socio-cultural tensions surrounding adolescent girls' sexual reproductive and health rights in Kenya.
In her research Joan Njagi sought to understand whether and how such reformulation, where it exists, is applied to 10-17-year-old adolescent girls, as well as what considerations, decisions and strategies were made regarding their inclusion or exclusion.
She found that ICTs do indeed reconceptualize sexual health interventions by moving beyond bio-medical, protective, and risk management approaches and concludes that socio-cultural environments influence how implementers use ICTs to address SRHR. This results in limitations for adolescent girls who continue to be denied access to comprehensive sexuality education in both offline and online spaces.
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