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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Adolescents, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups, Children and young people

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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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  What do Salvadoran teens think?: determining the feasibility of youth-friendly pharmacies: a focus group report

  Commercial Market Strategies: New Directions in Reproductive Health, 2003

  This paper reports on research findings from El Salvador into the feasibility of developing youth-friendly pharmacies.The data support implementation of the youthfriendly pharmacies concept.
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  Condom use and abstinence among unmarried young people in Zimbabwe: Which strategy, whose agenda?

  Population Council, USA, 2003

  This paper compares the views about abstinence and condom use expressed by young people in Zimbabwe in focus-group discussions with the views underlying national policies and religious and traditional beliefs.Young people’s decisions to adopt one or the other of these risk-reduction strategies may not necessarily indicate genuine individual choices, but rather their deference to adults’ interes
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  AIDS in Africa during the nineties: young people in Kenya

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2003

  This summary report brings together and examine existing information about adolescent sex in Kenya during the nineties.The report examines evidence for the success of major prevention strategies: what do young people know about HIV and how to avoid it? What proportion of them are abstaining, and until what ages? Once they do start having sex, is it within marriage or outside it?
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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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  Sexual health experiences of adolescents in three Ghanaian towns

  Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003

  The authors of this report state that much of the programmatic literature on adolescents has focused somewhat narrowly on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to contraceptive use. National population policy has placed a heavy emphasis on lowering the fertility rate through increased access to modern contraceptives.
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  Children, HIV/AIDS and communication in South Africa: a literature review

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002

  This commissioned report aimed to to provide insight into issues related to communication of HIV/AIDS to children in the 3-12 year age group, with an emphasis on South Africa.
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  Youth and HIV/AIDS: can we avoid catastrophe?

  Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2001

  To stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic from becoming a catastrophe, prevention strategies must do much more to reach young people right away. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS.
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  Young men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk

  Panos Institute, London, 2001

  This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.
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  Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998

  To assess the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health education on young people’s sexual behaviour, a comprehensive literature review was commissioned by the Department of Policy, Strategy, and Research of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Sixty-eight reports were reviewed.

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