The Peer Educator Reference Guide has been designed to support youth peer educators who are reaching out to young people in their communities to increase their knowledge about healthy living, HIV, and sexual and reproductive health and rights and help them access the services they need.
The promotion of health education is a mandatory and long-term measure to ensure that learners receive the correct information and put them into daily practice to prevent communicable, non-communicable diseases, and accidents, physical and mental health care.
School health education, including sexual health education, plays a crucial role in shaping adolescents’ protective health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes.
Eastern and Southern Africa is home to 70 per cent of adolescents, aged 10-19 years, living with HIV globally and have the highest rates of ART non-adherence.
This report describes the HIV epidemic among young people from key populations in the region, takes stock of HIV programmes for such people, and pinpoints the priority actions that will speed up progress towards ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat in the region.
Comprehensive sexuality education is an important means of promoting sexual well-being amongst young people and is key to preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, sexuality education is not currently included in the formal curriculum in Italian schools.
South Africa's progress towards the 95-95-95 goals has been significantly slower among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV), among whom antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, retention in care and viral suppression remain a concern.
As Nações Unidas e a UNESCO desenvolvem ações de educação em saúde e bem-estar para populações indígenas de forma pedagógica, multilíngue e intercultural.
Good mental health and psychosocial wellbeing is especially important for adolescents during their transition to adulthood. It can support resilience and help initiate healthy behaviours that shape long-term positive health outcomes.
This brief summarises new evidence from a longitudinal 4 years, quantitative cohort study of 1046 adolescents living with HIV in South Africa.