Agenda item 12 thematic segment: Reducing the impact of AIDS on children and youth; background note

This thematic segment background note analyses the impact of AIDS on children, adolescents and youth through the life course from childhood to adulthood by age range [0-4] [5-10] [11-14] [15-24]. It also identifies countries and specific thematic areas where notable successes/progress in HIV-related outcomes for children, adolescents, and youth have been achieved and discuss the key factors that led to those successes. In addition, the document identifies the key priority actions that will allow countries, with different epidemiological contexts to scale-up of rights-based HIV prevention, treatment and care and programmes to protect HIV-related human rights by age group, location and population specificities.