tailieunhanh - Youth Peer Education in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS: Progress, Process, and Programming for the Future

A large majority of adolescents (both married and unmarried) do not have information on sexuality, contraception, or STIs and HIV/AIDS (Barkat et al. 2000; Nahar et al. 1999; Haider et al. 1997). Nevertheless, RH education has not been a part of the education curriculum, and the existing service delivery system is not catering to the needs of unmarried adolescents. The family structure in Bangladesh is still very strong and plays a major role in the lives of adolescents providing support, love and care, but fails to respond to the need for reproductive health of adolescents. Hence, adolescents typically have. | YI uthNet J K A il . A . I -Ha Youth Peer Education in Reproductive Health and HIV AIDS Progress Process and Programming for the Future Susan Youth Issues Paper 7 Y uthNet Youth Peer Education in Reproductive Health and HIV AIDS Progress Process and Programming for the Future Youth Issues Paper 7 Susan Family Health International YouthNet Program Acknowledgments This paper is based primarily on discussions held on January 11-12 2006 at an international consultation sponsored by the . Agency for International Development USAID and the Family Health International FHI YouthNet. The consultation held in Washington DC was called Taking Stock of Youth Reproductive Health and HIV Peer Education Progress Process and Programming for the Future. Susan Adamchak PhD wrote the report based on the presentations and discussions from the meeting and other related materials from major international publications. Adamchak a consultant has worked for FHI the Population Council FRONTIERS and others. She has coordinated a major multisite youth operations research project that included peer education has conducted evaluations of peer education projects and has written on many youth reproductive health and HIV prevention topics. Chapter 2 on evidence of peer education success is based on the meeting presentation by Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale of the University of Windsor in Canada who provided additional materials for this report including the two tables and the list of studies she reviewed see Appendix 2 . Chapter 5 the conclusion is based on the closing remarks made at the meeting by Mahua Mandal of USAID the technical advisor for the YouthNet project. Others also contributed to this project. Hally Mahler who formerly managed behavior change communication projects at YouthNet coordinated the meeting. Aliza Pressman helped gather background documents and materials from the presenters. William Finger provided editorial guidance. The following people reviewed all or .