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Table 2 Health context of adolescents in study countries

From: Are rhetorical commitments to adolescents reflected in planning documents? An exploratory content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Global Financing Facility country plans

First wave countries

HIV incidence per 1000 uninfected population –

age 15–19

% of women birth before age 18

2011–2016

Female age 10–19 mortality rate (per 100,000)

Male age 10–19 mortality rate (per 100,000)

Bangladesh

 < 0.01

36

56

72

Cameroon

2.4

28

254

292

DRC

0.24

27

238

266

Ethiopia

0.23

22

163

220

Guatemala

0.1

20

68

128

Kenya

2.69

23

180

234

Liberia

1.49

37

185

215

Mozambique

3.03

40

272

286

Nigeria

2.18

29

340

340

Uganda

2.55

33

203

243

Tanzania

1.04

22

202

254

 

(2016)

(2011–2016)

(2015)

(2015)

  1. Data sources HIV incidence per 1000 population: UNICEF. 2017. State of the World's Children 2017. Geneva: UNICEF
  2. http://data.unicef.org/resources/state-worlds-children-2017-statistical-tables/ (Accessed 25 Sept 2018)
  3. % women birth before age 18: UNICEF. 2017. State of the World's Children 2017. Geneva: UNICEF
  4. http://data.unicef.org/resources/state-worlds-children-2017-statistical-tables/ (Accessed 25 Sept 2018)
  5. Adolescent mortality rate: World Health Organization, Global Mortality Database www.who.int/healthinfo/mortality_data/en/ (Accessed 25 Sept 2018)