This report provides evidence-based recommendations for policy-makers, programme managers and researchers to guide efforts towards meeting the UN goals on HIV/AIDS and young people. These goals aim to decrease prevalence and vulnerability; and to increase access to information, skills and services.

Young people are particularly vulnerable to HIV: 15-24 year olds account for 50% of new cases. Five to six thousand youths become infected every day, most of them in developing countries. The UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in June 2001 set a number of goals to drive efforts to reduce prevalence in this age group. 

This report provides a systematic review the effectiveness of interventions provided: through schools, health services, mass media, communities, and to young people who are most vulnerable to HIV infection.

Contents:
1. Introduction and rationale
2. Young people: the centre of the HIV epidemic
3. Overview of effective and promising interventions to prevent HIV infection
4. The weight of evidence: a method for assessing the strength of evidence on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions among young people
5. The effectiveness of sex education and HIV education interventions in schools in developing countries
6. Review of the evidence for interventions to increase young people’s use of health services in developing countries
7. The effectiveness of mass media in changing HIV/AIDS-related behaviour among young people in developing countries
8. The effectiveness of community interventions targeting HIV and AIDS prevention at young people in developing countries
9. Achieving the global goals on HIV among young people most at risk in developing countries: young sex workers, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men
10. Conclusions and recommendations

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