Publications on Young People

The Asia Pacific Inter Agency Task Team on Young Key Populations was established in 2009 to promote coordinated support from UN agencies and civil society partners to meet the HIV prevention, treatment, care and support needs of YKPs including: young men who have sex with men, young transgender people, young people who inject drugs, young people living with HIV, and young people selling sex.

With support from UNICEF EAPRO, Youth LEAD aims to surface the issues of adolescent key populations including adolescents living with HIV through their personal stories.

This manual is a resource for Facilitators who have attended a Facilitator Training Workshop on the delivery of the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens. In it you will find the contents of this 14-week parenting programme.

Prevalence rates of child marriage and early child-bearing have been declining across India over the past two decades, but absolute numbers remain high. This paper uses data collected from 3,000 children over 15 years in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to provide an evidence base from which to strengthen policy and programming in this area.

The aim of this report was to describe the current state of the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youth in Cambodia and this was achieved through the analysis of data on young women aged 15-24 years from the four Cambodian Demographic and Health Surveys (CDHS) conducted in 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2014.

In 2015, Youth LEAD as a advocacy- oriented youth-led regional network facilitated a series of capacity building activities in several counties. Take the New Gen training as an example; in 2015, the trainings continued to rollout in Cambodia, Mongolia, and the Philippines with hundreds of young key populations from grassroots movements being invited to learn and partake in these sessions.
 

In this document you will find information about the High Level Meeting on HIV/ AIDS (HLM) 2016, including what happens before, during and after the meeting as well as what you can do even if you aren’t able to attend the actual meeting in New York. This document has been prepared by and for young people but is also intended for use by civil society more broadly, who we hope will also find it useful.

This Operational Framework is intended to accompany the Global Strategy and to serve as a resource for national governments and the wide diversity of stakeholders within countries whose contributions are vital to improving the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents – including civil society, the private sector and development partners.

In this policy brief, Young Lives looks at child marriage rates in India to help inform policy and programming efforts.

India fact sheets on estimated number of adolescents living with HIV 2013. The fact sheets provide information on adolescent HIV trends, distribution of adolescent AIDS-related deaths, HIV treatment for adolescents, adolescent knowledge, testing and behavior related to HIV and adolescent key population.