Life Skills Approaches to Improving Youth's Sexual and Reproductive Health is a small paper edited by the NGO Advocates for Youth in 2002. It presents programs and advocates for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. It provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world. This paper briefly reviews some of these programs and presents lessons learned from the life skills approach to HIV/AIDS prevention education. These lessons are also applicable to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health programs for youth. These lessons are also applicable to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health programs for youth.