Count Me In. Youth LEAD. (2017)
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This documentation was produced by Youth LEAD, The Regional Network of Young Key Population in Asia and Pacific as a showcase of our support and interventions to Young Key Populations from Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam who applied the Global Fund funding request as the first window applicants beginning from late 2016 to early 2017. It will examine Youth LEAD’s technical support to the country partners to encourage young key population capacity and involvement in the Global Fund country processes. These three countries selected as the case studies also received Youth LEAD direct grants under the GF-CRG Special Initiative grant via Robert Carr Network Fund between 2016-2017.
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Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to Support Country Implementation. WHO. (2017)
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This Guidance is a milestone for translating the Global Strategy into action. It provides a wealth of information to policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, educators, donors, and civil society organizations – including the most up-to-date data on the major disease and injury burdens that affect adolescents. It supports the implementation of the Global Strategy by providing the comprehensive information that countries need to decide what to do for adolescent health, and how to do it. It builds on on-going efforts to ensure that adolescents can Survive, Thrive and are in a position to Transform the societies in which they live.
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Bridging the Gaps: UNDP Youth Strategy and Key Populations. Youth Voices Count. (2016)
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This document provides you with a coordinated approach taking into account the linkages between young key populations, the SDGs and the UNDP Youth Strategy in order to better align your advocacy with the global 2030 agenda. You can view the full text of the UNDP Youth Strategy 2014-2017 here.
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Case Study Bangladesh: Transforming the Lives of Young People. Lakhumalani V. (2016)
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Bangladesh remains a low HIV prevalence country. A total of 3,674 cases of HIV have been registered, however, the estimated number of people living with HIV is around 9,500.1 Social and economic factors could trigger a dramatic rise in the number of new HIV infections unless appropriate strategies and actions are urgently taken. Child marriage is widespread in Bangladesh: 11% of young adolescent girls (aged 10-14) and 46% of young people aged 15-19 are married. In rural areas, 85% of girls are married by the age of 16. Often the husbands are much older, which puts them in a position of control over the girls’ sexual and reproductive health. This case study follows three health journeys of young people who have come to access Link Up services.
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Case Study: Empowering Youth Leaders and Advocates in Myanmar. Davis W. (2016)
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This case study outlines how the Link Up project supported and further developed young key population network the Myanmar Youth Stars (MYS) to empower young people most affected by HIV in order to improve their access to integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights services. It describes how the network helps young people most affected by HIV acquire practical skills in management, leadership and advocacy.
Keywords: HIV, stigma and discrimination, prevention, treatment, care, sexual and reproductive health, rights
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Case Study: Upholding the Rights of Young Women who Sell Sex in Myanmar. Davis W. (2016)
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This case study describes how Alliance Myanmar, through the Link Up project, collaborated with community-based sex worker organisations to defend young sex workers’ rights. It focuses on the use of monitoring and response system REAct (Rights- Evidence-Action), which provides support for young sex workers who have been arrested as well as collecting data and evidence to inform advocacy.
Keywords: HIV, sexual and reproductive health, sex work, prison
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Condoms: The Prevention of HIV, Other Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unintended Pregnancies. UNAIDS. (2016)
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Condoms are a highly effective and widely used method to prevent transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. A global consultation meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 6 to 7 November 2014, to reaffirm the critical role of male and female condoms as part of combination HIV prevention, to shape an agenda to scale up condom promotion and distribution, and to identify strategies to overcome bottlenecks in scaling up.
Keywords: HIV, prevention, female condoms and lubricants
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Ending the AIDS Epidemic for Adolescents, with Adolescents. UNAIDS. (2016)
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The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to programme designers, implementers, policy and decision makers on how to meaningfully engage adolescents in the AIDS response and broader health programming, and to demonstrate why adolescents and youth are critical in efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. It also highlights what steps should be taken to implement programmes and policies that improve adolescent health outcomes (including for HIV) at the national, regional and global levels.
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In The Future: Stories of Adolescents from Key Populations in China, Thailand and the Philippines. Youth Lead. (2016)
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Youth LEAD aims to surface the issues of adolescent key populations including adolescents living with HIV through their personal stories. This book presents seven stories of adolescents in three countries, namely, Thailand, China and the Philippines with an aim to inform ways to support and strengthen HIV programming and policy development in the region. Most importantly, these stories reflect realities of adolescents from key populations that may inspire other adolescents on how they are able to weather the storm and fight for their rights.
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Integrated Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Survey on Street Involved Children and Youth in Kathmandu Valley - Round I. National Centre for AIDS and STD Control. (2016)
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Intrepid Nepal (INPL) carried out this Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance (IBBS) survey under the leadership of the National Center for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC) with financial support from Save the Children International, Nepal. This is the first round of the IBBS Survey conducted among street involved children and youths in three districts in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. This survey is a part of the National HIV Surveillance Plan (2012) and National HIV and AIDS Strategy (2011-2016). The first round of the survey was undertaken to determine the prevalence of HIV infections and to assess the sexual and/or injecting behaviors related to HIV among street involved children and youths in the Kathmandu Valley.
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