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  National cross sectional study of views on sexual violence and risk of HIV infection and AIDS among South African school pupils

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This study, published in the BMJ, investigates the views of South African school pupils (aged 10 – 19) on sexual violence and on the risk of HIV infection and AIDS, as well as on their experiences of sexual violence. Findings revealed that misconceptions about sexual violence were prevalent among both sexes, although more females held views that would put them at a higher risk of HIV.
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  Peer to peer: creating successful peer education programs

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  This guide describes the necessary steps to plan, implement, and evaluate a programme to train youth to teach their peers about sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
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  Senegal Youth Assessment Report: the informal sector and HIV/AIDS: prevention practices and strategies

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This study outlines strategies currently in use in Senegal for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS in youth. It identifies the most efficient strategies regarding adolescent reproductive health (ARH) with an emphasis on STI/HIV/AIDS, as a preliminary step in developing CEDPA’s Youth and HIV/AIDS Initiative.
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  Future forsaken: abuses against children affected by HIV/AIDS in India

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch report documents discrimination against HIV/AIDS affected children and highlights the failure of the Indian government to protect such children from abuses. The report finds that widespread discrimination in education, health and care is increasingly pushing children affected by HIV/AIDS onto the streets and into the worst forms of child labour.
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  The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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  Intervention strategies that work for youth: summary of the FOCUS on young adults

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2002

  What kinds of programs work in their attempts to promote youth reproductive health and HIV prevention? What factors make some programs successful and others less so?
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  Preventing HIV/AIDS among adolescents through integrated communication programming

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  This manual is designed to assist national UNFPA officers in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating communication interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents that integrate advocacy, behaviour change communication and education with other policy and service components.The manual provides a series of checklists to guide the programme or project officer in addressing key question
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  HIV prevalence and prevention among teenagers in Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This short article argues that prevalence rates for HIV have been overestimated in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that, since there is very little comprehensive data collection of rates of infection and that most estimates are derived from testing in ante-natal clinics, rates are bound to be skewed.
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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  This paper reports on a study that examines the impact of a health-focused literacy class in Nepal that combines reproductive health knowledge along with literacy training.
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  Social marketing for adolescent sexual health: results of operations research projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, and South Africa

  Population Services International, 2000

  This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications strategies included promotion through mass media, brand names such as ‘Youth Horizon’, and condom distribution through peer educators and youth-friendly outlets.

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