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Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.
An educational programme for young girls in northern Nigeria that involved local religious leaders massively reduced the number of child marriages, a study reported in Nature today has found1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00796-2
Read the associated Policy Brief: ‘Marriage of adolescent girls in Nigeria reduced by 80% by ‘big push’ intervention’.
References
Cohen, I., Abubakar, M. & Perlman, D. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10206-2 (2026).
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