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1. Risk for coerced sex among female youth in Ghana: Roles of family context, school enrollment and relationship experience

   CONTEXT: A better understanding is needed of the variables that may influence the risk of experiencing coerced sex among adolescent females in Sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: Data were collected from 700 female respondents who were interviewed in 2010 and 2012 waves of a longitudinal study of behavioral risk for HIV infection among youth aged 13–14 or 18–19 and living in two towns in southeastern Ghana. …

2. A pre-intervention study in the implementation of school-based family life education

   Young people face a variety of reproductive health risks: sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, early and unintended pregnancy, sexual abuse and exploitation. Family Life Education (FLE) in Fiji Islands is a long-term intervention strategy to deliver age-appropriate information and education on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in schools. This pre-intervention study examined the associations of gender, religion and ethnicity with SRH knowledge, attitudes and perceived behaviour of peers in a sample of school-age adolescents. …

3. Education sexuelle par les pairs éducateurs jeunes. Guide du formateur

   Education sexuelle par les pairs éducateurs jeunes. Guide du formateur est un document développé par le Conseil national de lutte contre le sida de la République du Congo. Il a pour objectif de fournir aux formateurs un outil pédagogique pour animer les ateliers de formation d'éducateurs pairs jeunes au Congo Brazzaville et de suivre les activités de ces derniers. …

4. Reality Counts. Focusing on Sexuality and Rights in the Fight against HIV/AIDS

   Reality Counts. Focusing on Sexuality and Rights in the Fight against HIV/AIDS is the third in a series of publications presented by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) in 2004, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994. This book consists of a collection of articles about HIV/AIDS around the world. …

5. Hé les gars!

   Hé les gars ! est un petit guide réédité en 2008 par l'Aide Suisse contre le Sida (ASS) et l'Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP). Il s'adresse aux jeunes garçons et vise à leur fournir, au moyen d'un langage simple et accessible, des informations sur les modifications du corps à la puberté, sur l'amour et la sexualité, sur la contraception et la prévention des infetions sexuellement transmissibles (VIH et sida inclus) ainsi que sur les lois régissant le domaine de la sexualité. A la fin de la brochure, un glossaire réunit et explique les termes spécifiques relatifs aux sujets abordés. …

6. Finding our voices. Gender and sexual identities and HIV/AIDS in education

   Of the 8,600,000 young people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, 67 percent are young women and 33 percent are young men (Young People and HIV/AIDS: Opportunity in Crisis, UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO, 2001). The Girls' Education Programme recognises 'gender' as the features associated in specific cultures with masculinity and femininity, and acknowledges that not all societies and cultures share the same ideas of what it means to be male or female. …

7. Gestión de riesgo de contagio de VIH-SIDA en alumnos de la Universidad Católica del Norte, IIª Región de Antofagasta, Chile

   Objetivos principales de esta investigación han sido: descubrir y establecer parámetros sobre la gestión del riesgo de contagio de VIH-SIDA en estudiantes de la Universidad Católica del Norte, descubrir antecedentes que permitieran conocer la percepción del riesgo de contagio del VIH-SIDA ysistematizar las variables que influyen en la gestión de conducta de riesgo de contagio del VIH-SIDA (individuales, culturales y sociales).

8. Nonconsensual sex among youth: youth programs need to consider patterns of coerced sex when addressing reproductive health, HIV prevention, and other needs

   The fact sheet suggests that programmes need to consider patterns and consequences of coerced sex when addressing reproductive health, HIV prevention, and other needs of young people.

9. Reaching young men and boys

   This article highlights the needs of adolescent males as they go through a critical process of forming self-identity. A variety of educational approaches, community-based, school-based and peer education are described so as to inform young men about STDs and HIV/AIDS. Innovative strategies including social marketing, hotlines and radio call-in programmes; the internet and CD-ROMs and entertainment-education programmes that provide adolescent males the confidential, timely and anonymous counselling they tend to prefer are discussed. …

10. The construction of gender in times of change: a case study of school-based HIV/AIDS education in Kilimanjaro

    This case study utilized qualitative and quantitative methods to examine how gender, power and HIV/AIDS merge to create situations of risk and vulnerability for young people in the Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Questionnaires were collected from 160 secondary school students, while qualitative data came from 3 focus group discussions (one mixed and two single sex), interviews with one male and one female parent, one male and one female teacher, and an educational representative, in addition to observation. …