The Long Walk
Mentor mothers support and empower pregnant women in protecting their babies from HIV infection and staying healthy.
Adolescent Prevention
Combination Social Protection Lowers Unprotected Sex in HIV+ Adolescents (2016)
This is the last policy brief in a series of 6 policy briefs that address social protection & adolescents. This brief discusses ways in which combination social protection lowers unprotected sex among adolescents.
Combination Social Protection Reduces HIV-Risk in Adolescents
This is the third policy brief in a series of 6 policy briefs that address social protection & adolescents. This brief outlines ways in which social protection reduces HIV-risk among adolescents.
How Can Social Protection Reduce Adolescent HIV-Risk?
This is the first policy brief in a series of 6 policy briefs that address social protection & adolescents. This brief outlines ways in which social protection can potentially reduce HIV-risk among adolescents.
All In to #EndAdolescentAIDS
To end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, specific—yet flexible—strategies are needed for different age groups, populations and geographical locations. Ending the epidemic among adolescents requires amplifying investments where they can make the most difference and fostering innovation by adolescents and youth themselves, as well as governments, international organizations, civil society and the private sector.
Improving the Quality of PrEP Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa: Implementation brief launch
Webinar: Improving the Quality of PrEP Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa
Tuesday, 23 November, 2021 8:00–9:00 AM ET
Improving the Quality of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa
This implementation brief examines the current efforts in eastern and southern Africa to accelerate and scale up evidence-based PrEP delivery platforms for adolescent girls and young women. The brief provides current knowledge and builds on WHO guidance to provide key considerations for implementation, including driving demand and improving quality, as well as focus on wider combination prevention and integration agendas.
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) remain disproportionately affected by HIV in eastern and southern Africa, however, they face many personal, social and structural barriers to access, uptake and use of traditional HIV prevention methods. Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is proven to be highly effective as an additional prevention choice for reducing the risk of HIV acquisition, but the current demand for PrEP by AGYW is low with suboptimal adherence.
Within the region, there is currently great impetus to address these challenges and scale up PrEP for AGYW. A critical aspect of this is to leverage the learnings and evidence from implementation of how to improve the demand and quality of PrEP programming for this population. Improving the Quality of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Eastern and Southern Africa is informed by knowledge and lessons learned emerging from a virtual thank tank and webinar convened by UNICEF together with WHO AFRO and the Global Fund, with support from the SIDA funded 2gether 4 SRHR programme, in early 2021.
Improving the Quality of PrEP Implementation for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: From research and demonstration projects to quality implementation at scale
Regional Virtual Think Tank and Webinar Series
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Principes directeurs internationaux sur l'éducation à la sexualité
L’éducation complète à la sexualité (ECS)1 est primordiale pour préparer les jeunes à une vie sûre, productive et épanouissante dans un monde où le VIH et le SIDA, les infections sexuellement transmissibles (IST), les grossesses non désirées, la violence basée sur le genre et les inégalités entre les sexes continuent de présenter des risques graves pour leur bien-être. Cependant, bien que les bienfaits d’une ECS de qualité fondée sur le programme scolaire aient été montrés de manière claire et irréfutable, peu d’enfants et de jeunes sont dotés des moyens de prendre le contrôle de leur vie et de faire, librement et de façon responsable, des choix éclairés concernant leur sexualité et leurs relations interpersonnelles.
Nombreux sont ceux qui, entrant dans l’âge adulte, ont entendu des messages contradictoires, négatifs et déroutants sur la sexualité, messages bien souvent exacerbés par la gêne et le silence des adultes, notamment des parents et des enseignants. Dans bien des sociétés, les attitudes et les lois découragent le débat public sur la sexualité et le comportement sexuel, et les normes sociales peuvent perpétuer des situations préjudiciables, telles que l’inégalité des genres dans le contexte des relations sexuelles, de la planification familiale et de l’utilisation de contraceptifs modernes.