Adolescent Resources

Curbing HIV Transmission Among Adolescents in Africa through Social Protection and Multisectoral Programming Solutions

IsabellaP — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:17:33 +0000

Curbing HIV Transmission Among Adolescents in Africa through Social Protection and Multisectoral Programming Solutions IsabellaP Thu, 03/13/2025 - 17:17

There is overwhelming evidence that multiple social, economic, and structural factors perpetuate inequalities and increase human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk among adolescents, including poverty and other vulnerabilities addressed by social protection programmes.

To better understand the role of social protection in addressing these complex and multidimensional determinants of HIV, UNICEF conducted a systematic review to examine the evidence on cash plus or ‘bundled’ multisectoral interventions and their impacts on new HIV infections, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and outcomes and risk factors to HIV/STIs among adolescents and young people in Africa.

To date, this is the first review to examine bundled economic strengthening and health interventions — including but not limited to social protection — to draw lessons for developing and scaling up multi-sectoral programmes, including social protection, and making them HIV-sensitive.

The newly released research brief summarizes a longer paper by Kate Rogers, Rikke Le Kirkegaard, Joyce Wamoyi, Kaley Grooms, Shaffiq Essajee and Tia Palermo, titled Systematic review of cash plus or bundled interventions targeting adolescents in Africa to reduce HIV risk, published on BMC Public Health in January 2024.

Adolescent Prevention

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection

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UNICEF

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World AIDS Day: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional 2024 Snapshot

IsabellaP — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:22:21 +0000

World AIDS Day: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional 2024 Snapshot IsabellaP Tue, 11/26/2024 - 18:22

This year's World AIDS Day theme is "Take the rights path". For this occasion, UNICEF published the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional 2024 Snapshot, featuring a regional overview of HIV trends, including vertical transmission, testing, and treatment for children and adolescents, as well as gender disparities affecting adolescent girls and young women.

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UNICEF

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Eastern and Southern Africa

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Adolescent and young key populations

Adolescent health

Adolescents living with HIV

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Maternal, newborn and children health

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Brief

Global and regional report

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2024

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HIV & SRHR SBC Toolkit for Adolescents and Young People in ESA Region: Question & answer resource documents

IsabellaP — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:45:10 +0000

HIV & SRHR SBC Toolkit for Adolescents and Young People in ESA Region: Question & answer resource documents IsabellaP Fri, 07/19/2024 - 12:45

As part of the 2gether 4 SRHR joint UN programme, UNICEF ESARO in collaboration with Y+ Global and UNFPA ESARO, developed six key question and answer (Q&A) resource documents on HIV and SRH for adolescents and young people in ESA. The toolkit has been developed to assist country teams in improving knowledge and understanding, driving adolescent and youth engagement and behaviour change, and promoting uptake of services in ESA. The content has been developed with adolescents and young people. Part of a broader toolkit, the content is intended for adaptation and use across multiple SBC platforms, including digital approaches scripts for radio shows and peer counselling sessions.

Each Q&A has approximately 10 questions, and links to the other topic areas:

Healthy relationships
Staying safe
Sex and other stuff
All about HIV
Living with HIV
Being a young parent
Understanding Puberty
The HPV Vaccine
Talking with Your Children

Click and watch on how to access and use the toolkit

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Adolescent Prevention

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Healthy relationships

Introduction to SRH & HIV Toolkit

The HPV vaccine

Understanding puberty

Talking with your children

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa: The latest insights

IsabellaP — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:12:44 +0000

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa: The latest insights IsabellaP Thu, 07/18/2024 - 17:12

Eastern and southern Africa (ESA) is the world’s most heavily HIV-impacted region, with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) disproportionately affected. To support the scale-up of PrEP amongst AGYW in ESA, in September 2021 UNICEF and partners released the implementation brief “Improving the Quality of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa,” highlighting considerations to help improve the quality and coverage of AGYW PrEP programming.

The PrEP landscape has evolved significantly in the three years since the original brief was released, both in scale and variety. This updated brief summarises the most recent evidence on AGYW PrEP provision, serving as a supplement to the original 2021 implementation brief.

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Ending HIV for Every Child, Every Adolescent: An investment opportunity for the public and private sectors

IsabellaP — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:06:31 +0000

Ending HIV for Every Child, Every Adolescent: An investment opportunity for the public and private sectors IsabellaP Thu, 07/18/2024 - 00:06

This document highlights opportunities for both public and private sectors to engage in the global HIV response for infants, children, and adolescents in partnership with UNICEF. Below is also a spotlight on the Global HIV and AIDS Thematic Fund, with financial results from 2023 programming.

UNICEF is a key partner and leader in the AIDS response for children, adolescents, and women. It collaborates with governments and partners worldwide, offering innovation, technical expertise, data and evidence, programme excellence, coordination, and convening power.

UNICEF is 100 per cent voluntarily funded, and is seeking support to deliver ambitious HIV results for children and to ensure the world can reach Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.3, to end the epidemic of HIV by 2030.

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ART and Treatment

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2024

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[Short Version] Ending HIV for Every Child, Every Adolescent: An investment opportunity for private and public donors

Spotlight on the Global HIV and AIDS Thematic Fund

Within Reach: join the final push to end HIV among adolescent girls in Eastern and Southern Africa

Investing in the Thematic Fund

Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents

IsabellaP — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:27:33 +0000

Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents IsabellaP Wed, 07/17/2024 - 17:27

UNICEF’s HIV/AIDS Thematic Fund is a global flexible funding pool. It enables us to strengthen systems to ensure an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents. This offers donors an exciting opportunity to target funding specifically to HIV/AIDS outcomes, while also giving UNICEF the flexibility to allocate funds based on where the need is greatest for children, including critically underfunded priorities at the country level, humanitarian response activities, and where funds will have the greatest impact. Thanks to our generous donors UNICEF’s Global HIV/ AIDS Thematic Fund income in 2022 reached over $5.7 million.

This document features the results achieved in 2022, when supporters of the HIV/AIDS Thematic Fund enabled UNICEF to allocate resources to 45 countries and territories. Funds were allocated to countries based on several measures determining the burden of HIV/AIDS on the population. These included the number of AIDS-related deaths in the country and the number of new infections among children and adolescents in the country. Funds were also allocated to UNICEF’s regional and global headquarters, supporting the vital work that allows thematic funding to unlock wide-scale results and impact the world over.

Diagnostics

PMTCT

Paediatric and Adolescent Treatment

Adolescent Prevention

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection

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Global

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Ukraine

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Health systems strengthening

Maternal, newborn and children health

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Testing

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2022

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Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents

Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents: Standards and criteria

IsabellaP — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:38:48 +0000

Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents: Standards and criteria IsabellaP Fri, 06/14/2024 - 03:38

Global initiatives are urging countries to prioritize quality as a way of reinforcing human rights-based approaches to health. Yet evidence from both high- and low-income countries shows that services for adolescents are highly fragmented, poorly coordinated and uneven in quality. Pockets of excellent practice exist, but, overall, services need significant improvement and should be brought into conformity with existing guidelines.

The WHO/UNAIDS global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents aim to assist policy-makers and health service planners to improve the quality of health-care services, so that adolescents find it easier to obtain the health services that they need to promote, protect, and improve their health and well-being, according to their needs.

This publication presents global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents, as well as an implementation guide and monitoring tools.

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The adolescent health indicators recommended by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health

rlekirkegaard — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 13:40:41 +0000

The adolescent health indicators recommended by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health rlekirkegaard Sun, 06/09/2024 - 16:40

This document is an interactive guide for the uniform collection, compilation, reporting, and use of adolescent health data.

Adolescence is a critical stage in life for physical, cognitive and emotional development, shaping future health and well-being. Comprehensive measurement of adolescent health is essential to prioritize health issues, guide interventions and track progress. However, global, regional and national adolescent health measurement has historically been inconsistent and incomplete.

The Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) Advisory Group has been established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with United Nations partners to support efforts to focus adolescent health measurement on the most important issues and to improve alignment across different measurement initiatives.

The indicators are intended to guide policy and programming for adolescents, and to assist in identifying topics in which more detailed health assessments and additional programming are needed. The last chapter in this guidance document describes how this can be done, based on the approach suggested in the Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) guidance.

This document presents a list of 47 indicators recommended by GAMA for measurement of adolescent health, which are applicable to all adolescent population subgroups and span Well-being Outcomes.

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Ending the AIDS Epidemic Among Young People in the Middle East and North Africa

rlekirkegaard — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:26:58 +0000

Ending the AIDS Epidemic Among Young People in the Middle East and North Africa rlekirkegaard Fri, 05/24/2024 - 17:26

This advocacy report discusses the HIV epidemic among young people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, particularly among key populations. The report emphasizes the challenges faced in collecting HIV-related data and the need for comprehensive efforts to address the epidemic, including targeted prevention programmes, improved access to testing and treatment, and addressing social and structural factors. It also discusses the presence of punitive and obstructive laws that contribute to stigma and discrimination and calls for their removal or reform. The report advocates for increased investment in HIV programmes, improved access to sexual and reproductive health services, comprehensive sexuality education, and community engagement. It highlights the importance of community health systems, data collection, and involving young people in the development of HIV and other health programmes.

Paediatric and Adolescent Treatment

Adolescent Prevention

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UNICEF

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Middle East and North Africa

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Adolescents

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Adolescent and young key populations

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Advocacy