HIV and AIDS
Youth

Young people, particularly young girls, deserve special attention because they have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the developing world. Reducing new infections in this age group is probably one of the most effective strategies for slowing the spread of the epidemic.

However, designing effective programs for young people is not easy. Young people face many special constraints in adopting safe behavior. They are sometimes hard to reach, particularly those who are not in school. They are less likely than adults to have skills, economic resources, and access to information that they need to protect themselves. They are also less likely to have access to services, particularly those that meet their needs in a nonstigmatizing, nondiscriminatory, and user-friendly manner. Most important, they are less likely to have the power within relationships to insist on safe sex. (more)

Projects

• Ethiopia: HIV Prevention for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls

• Kenya: Highlighting Marital Risk and Promoting Premarital Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Nyanza

• FRONTIERS projects

  • Cameroon: Peer Education as a Strategy to Increase Contraceptive Prevalence and Reduce the Rate of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)/AIDS Among Adolescents in Cameroon

  • Ethiopia: Improving Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention Among Married Adolescents in Amhara, Ethiopia

  • Kenya: Institutionalizing a Successful Adolescent Reproductive Health and HIV Intervention Program: Expanding the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Program Experience in Kenya
  • Kenya: Global Agenda: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Kenya
  • Kenya: Highlighting Marital HIV Risk and Promoting Premarital Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Nyanza
  • Senegal: Enhancing Utilization of the Findings from the Youth Reproductive Health Project
  • Senegal: Global Agenda: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Senegal
  • South Africa: Assessing the Performance of Alternative Youth Center Models
  • South Africa: An Evaluation of the Impact on Adolescent Reproductive Health of Community-based Interventions for Supporting Orphaned and Vulnerable Children

  • Uganda: Understanding and Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents Living with HIV

• Horizons projects

  • Global: Cooperative Project with WHO to Produce a Review of VCT Programs for Youth

  • Kenya: Barriers to Uptake of Pediatric HIV Treatment and Care in Kenya: A Diagnostic Study

  • Kenya: Comprehensive Behavior Change Communication to Promote the "ABCs": Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Using Condoms

  • Malawi: A Retrospective Assessment of the COPE 1 Program in Namwera, Mangochi District, Malawi

  • Mexico: Programming for HIV Prevention in Mexican Schools

  • Nicaragua: Stigma Reduction and Community Mobilization for HIV Prevention via Multimedia Programs

  • Rwanda: Assessing the Psychosocial Benefits of a Community-based Home Visitation Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rwanda

  • South Africa: Exploring Current Practices in Pediatric ARV Rollout and Integration with Early Childhood Programs in South Africa

  • South Africa: Integrating “Abstinence” and “Be Faithful” (AB) into the Life Skills Program in Mpumalanga Province

  • South Africa: Involving Young People in the Care and Support of AIDS-affected Children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • South Africa: Programming for HIV Prevention in South African Schools

  • South Africa: Technical Assistance to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF), Goelama Project

  • Thailand: Programming for HIV Prevention in Thai Schools

  • Uganda: Building Evaluation Capacity Among the Staff of the Straight Talk Program

  • Uganda: Succession Planning to Support AIDS-affected Children

  • Uganda: Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Youth: Phase II Operations Research

  • Zambia: Decisions to Seek HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Zambian Adolescents: Influences of Individual, Familial, and Environmental Factors

  • Zambia: Promoting the Sustainability of PLHA Care and Support Activities by Young People in Zambia
  • Zimbabwe: Orphans and Vulnerable Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Study of Psychosocial Well-being and Psychosocial Support Programs

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See Also 

• Transitions to Adulthood

• Horizons Publications/Resources on HIV/AIDS & Youth

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This page updated 1 May 2008

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