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    School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents
    (Cochrane, 2016-11-08) Kagee, Ashraf; Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Sinclair, David; Mathews, Catherine; Hillman, Alex; Lombard, Carl
    Background: School-based sexual and reproductive health programmes are widely accepted as an approach to reducing high-risk sexual behaviour among adolescents.Many studies and systematic reviews have concentrated onmeasuring effects on knowledge or self-reported behaviour rather than biological outcomes, such as pregnancy or prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Objectives: To evaluate the effects of school-based sexual and reproductive health programmes on sexually transmitted infections (such as HIV, herpes simplex virus, and syphilis), and pregnancy among adolescents.