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Youth peer education in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS (pdf 413kb)

This article looks at the progress, process, and programming for future adolescent reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS education programs.

It seeks to provide program managers and others working with youth programs with current thinking on key issues that affect successful peer education programs. This may help to inform policies and programs related to adolescent reproductive health (RH) and HIV/AIDS.

Topics covered include:

- youth peer education
- framing the issues
- theoretical frameworks used in peer education
- evidence of youth peer education success
- major program issues
- the youth peer education toolkit
- resources on monitoring and evaluation
- scaling up programs
- future directions

 

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