Recent studies in Tanzania show that a large percentage of adolescents have had experiences with drugs or substances like tobacco and alcohol at a low age. At the same time they lack basic knowledge about the effects and dangers of its consumption. This ignorance often puts them at risk.

The HIV epidemic has transformed the childhood, youth and adulthood of millions globally. Over three million children and 38 million adults are infected with HIV worldwide.

The handbook provides tools and strategies that anyone can use to advocate for the reproductive rights of women and girls everywhere.

The paper examines what role social franchising might have in expanding reproductive health and HIV services for youth.

Education Ministers and representatives from forty-eight Commonwealth countries met in Edinburgh from 27-30 October 2003 for the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (15CCEM). One of the six action areas discussed was mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS in Education.

This document is designed to address challenges of implementing HIV/AIDS policy at the University of Nairobi (UoN).

This analytical review will consider the evidence of gender-based violence in schools in developing countries and summarise the measures taken to address them.

This document has been prepared to help people make a case for school-based efforts to address and improve family life, reproductive health, and population education, and to plan, implement, and evaluate school-based efforts as part of the development of a "Health-Promoting School".

The publication documents the experience of the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture in using a youth-based participatory process to develop HIV/AIDS and sexual health component in its new programme, resulting in a mobilized coalition of young people committed to health and future of

The aim of this investigation is primarily to determine firstly, who of the registered students studying at Technikon Pretoria is most at risk to become HIV infected, secondly to determine which behaviours put them at risk, and thirdly to determine their understanding of their basic rights as hum