SRH Service Access May Have Incentivized Visit Attendance
Although attendance at the intervention program sessions was low, 73.62% of all control and intervention participants attended both study visits where adolescent-friendly SRH services were offered. HIV, STI, and unintended pregnancy are all highly prevalent issues in the South African context, with adolescent girls and young women at particularly high risk and often targeted for intervention. Barriers to adolescent SRH services from public clinic facilities are well described. Although school-based health services have been long supported in South African national policy, their implementation has been stalled for more than a decade.