New Resources on Youth Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention, 2002-2004

This 4-page research brief, from Youthnet - Family Health International, offers an annotated list of resources with web links to youth-serving organisations. This is a sequel to YouthLens No. 1, produced in July 2002, as part of a five-year progamme funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The five-year project seeks to provide information that helps improve reproductive health and prevent HIV among young people.

This summary of resources is offered in three sections: Overview Reports; Reproductive Health Program Development/Implementation; and HIV/AIDS Program Development/Implementation. The summaries include: full report titles; brief descriptions; links to websites; and email contact information.

Several examples of reports include:

• The State of the World’s Children 2005 - an annual report from UNICEF focusing on poverty, conflict, and HIV/AIDS with features important for adolescents, including free education for those orphaned by HIV/AIDS and fighting sexual exploitation and trafficking.


• Capacity Building Resources in Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (2003) - a training package from PATH, based on workshops in Southeast Asia, is designed to help organizations with programme design, strategic planning and networking, programming, youth-friendly health services, and monitoring and evaluation.


• HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care among Especially Vulnerable Young People (2004) - a collaboration between WHO and the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme focuses on the needs of especially vulnerable youth, including migrants and refugees, sex workers, and injecting drug users.