Following a period of preparatory work (face-to-face meetings) with community leaders and parents to ensure adults' support of sexual health information and services for the community's unmarried youth, a programme was developed that includes the following components:

• Community-based sexual health counselling and contraceptive services at a youth health counselling centre, staffed by a trained young counsellor. The centre offers a reading room with sexual health information. Leaflets and bulletins in the community inform youth of the youth centre's counselling and contraceptive services.
• Sex education through youth-focused printed pamphlets on physiology and reproduction, sexual responsibility (including abstinence), relationships, love, marriage and family, responsible and safer sex, contraception and condom use, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.
• Lectures by an educator and 36 short presentations on sexual health issues, followed by discussion sessions for youth who are in relationships or dating.
• Group activities, including interactive discussion, on sexual health issues.
• Contraceptives and condoms made available free of charge to young people. These contraceptive methods as well as free pregnancy test kits are available to youth through the network of family planning service providers, the youth health counselling centre, and the activity discussion groups. (Youth receive information on where and how to access these supplies.)
• Three sexual health videos, shown at local cinemas prior to popular movies.
• Training for family planning providers in provision of youth-friendly services, such as providing counselling, being nonjudgmental and friendly, and assuring adolescents' confidentiality.

Youth, Reproductive and Sexual Health.

An evaluation study conducted in 2000 found that the initiative increased partner communication about use of contraception, increased use of contraception, and increased use of condoms.