HIV/AIDS, Young People, Research

"Study Question: Can a poverty targeted social cash transfer influence HIV risk behavior?"

Adolescent female sex workers (FSWs) who accessed sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention services, including peer-education-based health promotion and condom access, reported improved sexual behaviour. This is one of the findings of a ...

This impact evaluation in Spanish of the violence against women (VAW) campaign “A Disaster that We Men Can Avoid” from Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua, is directed to the men and women of nearly 250 organisations, women's groups, youth groups, ...

"I argue that young people's silences and respectful speech in family settings reflect a local moral world in which parents authorise and acknowledge sexual engagements of young people only when the latter have achieved the necessary spending ...

"The objective of this article is to describe a program of research involving Familias Unidas, a Hispanic-specific, parent-centered intervention, aimed at reducing substance use and HIV health disparities among Hispanic youth."

"We undertook a systematic review, and a meta-analysis when appropriate, to assess effectiveness of interventions to reduce sexual risk behaviours, and consequent HIV infection, among young people (10-25 years) in sub-Saharan Africa." This study ...

"In countries where HIV prevalence has declined at population level, sexual behaviour change among young people has been cited as an important contributing factor. Yet, questions remain regarding how to achieve - and maintain - the ...

"The key principle to bear in mind - whether programmes are working with men as supportive partners or as agents of social change - is that working with men represents an opportunity to address gender inequality and improve health outcomes."

"Concerted advocacy and action is needed from all partners to ensure that quality services are available to vulnerable and at-risk adolescents at national scale....Reforms must aim to expand and grant equitable access to services for all, ...

In 2007, The Lancet published its first adolescent health series: this second series in 2012 on adolescent health argues that "it is now time to put the young person, not the specific issue, centre stage. Four papers analyse the role of ...

Published in the BMC Public Health Journal, this article discusses the MEMA kwa Vijana adolescent sexual health programme, exploring why such initiatives have had little impact in reducing the prevalence of HIV. According to the article, few of ...

Dr. Susan Kasedde's presentation for the Programming for Adolescents and Youth in the Arab States/MENA Region conference in Istanbul, Turkey, December 3-7 2012, opens with 2012 statistical trends in new HIV infection in adults and children. ...

This article from the journal Caribbean Quarterly (Special Issue on Communication in Action) reviews a condom distribution project in Jamaica through the Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI) lens. This framework is used to understand the ...

This South African health education initiative stressed a correct scientific understanding of the issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic as the basis for sensible lifestyle choices. Making use of Unizul Science Centre's relationships with rural ...

"The media are the air our young people breathe. That air should include accurate information about the risks and responsibilities of sexual behavior." This report is intended to share with practitioners and programmes research about how the ...

"We recognise that responding to sexual violence is essential in our work, in our communities and in our world. We commit to addressing sexual violence in our contexts to the best of our ability, aiming to end it in all its forms, together." From ...

This report evaluates a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tool that was created in order to assess programmes designed to meet the needs of children who are orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.

This report from C-Change/ FHI 360 documents a study that sought to explore the dynamics of cross-generational relationships in Jamaica with the aim of informing communication programmes working to decrease cross-generational sexual practices and ...

This media report from the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) and Bayer Pharmaceuticals explores young people's attitudes about sex and contraception and whether they are able to access accurate and unbiased information to make ...

"In the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention, there has been increasing interest in the role that gender plays in HIV and violence risk, and in successfully engaging men in the response."

From the abstract of this United Kingdom-based study: "This paper reports the findings of a review of reviews of behavioural change interventions to reduce unhealthy behaviours or promote healthy behaviours. We included six different ...

"Effective social and behavior change communication interventions tend to be based on sound theory (often a range of theories or models, Jepson et al., 2006) that grounds the strategic framework whilst allowing enough flexibility to allow ...

This workbook is the tenth in the Called to Care Series. "Parenting: A Journey of Love" is designed to inform, support, and encourage parents, especially those who are living in countries where family life is being undermined by the AIDS ...

This interactive curriculum from EngenderHealth and LifeLine/ChildLine is designed to apply a gender-transformative approach to HIV prevention in Namibian schools.

This guide is one in a series of Good Practice Guides produced by the Alliance for the purpose of bringing together expertise from their global community-level HIV programming to define and guide good practice in a range of technical areas. The ...

Published in Social Science & Medicine, this study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shows that community members in sub-Saharan Africa correlate an increase in HIV vulnerability among adolescent ...

This 104-page report, produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presents the results of a qualitative research study undertaken to examine the impact of alcohol consumption on sexual partnerships and ...

This Spanish language article was prepared by Salud Pública México (Public Health Mexico) and published in its March-April 2011 journal. The objective of this study was to examine how educational interventions that incorporate parent ...

Security the Future Today: Synthesis of Strategic Information on HIV and Young People was written after the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010 in order to focus specifically on young ...

On July 27 2009, the Regional Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed a cooperation agreement with the Huésped Foundation to strengthen the union between the main Latin American mass media regarding the regional response to ...

Developed for advocacy purposes, this resource from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (JHU CCP) offers 10 key points for discussion around the impact of communication on HIV prevention and ...

This 12-page research article, published in the African Journal of Reproductive Health, examines factors that determine whether people in multiple concurrent relationships develop a perception of being at risk for HIV infection. Data was analysed ...

C-Change/Nigeria assessed and reported on the HIV-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices (KAPB) of more than 1,200 youth ages 10–24 in Cross River State and Kogi State. Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews centred on ...

"A brief collation of some of the evidence from a number of surveys and meta-analyses to show that social and behavioural communication is effective, economical and a vital component of a combination HIV prevention response...."

This qualitative research on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices for HIV-positive mothers and their children was carried out to analyse the challenges that HIV-positive mothers face when trying to provide safe replacement infant ...

"...if it was delivered in a serious note, we would have taken no notice of it. Humour always has a way of drawing attention...We looked at them, laughed but got the message in a nice entertaining way." "They have been talking about HIV and AIDS ...

Scrutinize is a social and behaviour communication change (SBCC) campaign created in partnership with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Johns Hopkins Health Education in South Africa (JHHESA), and designer jeans ...

This presentation from a meeting hosted by The Communication Initiative on March 29 2011 ("Social and Behavioural Change Research Results: Strategic Implications") in Geneva, Switzerland, explores the evaluation strategies and impact developed by ...

The campaign “Tu Sex Mismo" (known as "It's Your Sex Life” (IYSL) in the English version) is part of MTV Shout Out, a social responsibility initiative designed to motivate young people to express and inform themselves about their sexual health, ...

This 80-page evaluation, published by Straight Talk Foundation (STF), presents a mid-term review of the organisation's five year Strategic Plan (SP) for 2006 - 2010, which committed STF to increasing

Introduction

Introduction  

This report is the third in a series of population-based HIV seroprevalence surveys, which started in 2002 and were repeated in 2005 and again in 2008.

Somos Diferentes, Somos Iguales (SDSI) is a communication for social change initiative that aims to prevent future HIV infections in Nicaragua by means of mass communication actions, including entertainment-education (edutainment) programmes, ...

"Given that adolescents are so attuned to mass media for information and cues about how to behave, the media have tremendous potential for reaching them with messages about HIV and AIDS..."

"How do on-the-air media messages work at the ground level? Can media messages strengthen, deepen and widen social connections among a community of listeners?

Published by the Communication for Social Change Consortium, this 48-page report is an introduction to establishing a participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) process to assist in the measuremen