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Toronto-Teen-Survey-report.pdf

What are diverse teens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada saying about HIV, sexual health, and the services they want?

The Toronto Teen Survey (TTS) is a community-based research project that has gathered information from youth on assets, gaps, and barriers that currently exist in sexual health education and services.

Planned Parenthood Toronto sponsored the Toronto Teen Survey in partnership with York University, University of Toronto (New College), and Wilfrid Laurier University. Toronto Public Health was a collaborator.

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sexual-health-hiv-aids-youth-Serbia.pdf

This 24-page case study published in 2009 discusses the importance of investing in youth. What are the best ways to reach vulnerable youth and how are youth acting as peer educators and service providers? The work of Serbia's Institute for Student Health (ISH) is examined.

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AIDSTAR-Scrutinize-Campaign.pdf

This 12-page case study documents the Scrutinize Campaign, a year-long series of animated HIV prevention adverts that appeared on South African television between June 2008 and 2009. The ads are designed to portray realistic situations that young people face, including condom use, multiple partners, teen pregnancy, alcohol use, and 'sugar daddies'.

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What-Works-in-Youth-Media.pdf

This collection of case studies looks at how young people are harnessing the power of media to educate the public about issues they care about. It also explores the tremendous power of youth media programs to promote young people's personal growth and development – to equip them with essential "skills for life" that will enable them to succeed.

Topics:

• Magazine Publication by Children/Youth
• Using Media to Fight HIV/AIDS
• Educating the Public about Children's Issues
• Youth Employment & Life Skills

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Its-My-Life-HIVAIDS-kit-manual.pdf

This kit is part of the "It's My Life" series produced in 2005 by the Thoughtshop Foundation in Kolkata, India, is ideal for a group of about 50 participants, and it takes about 2 hours to complete all the the activities. The activities can also be done individually, of course. There are 3 activities contained in the manual: a demonstration to show how HIV spreads and how it is detected, a risk game, and an audio quiz.

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Best-Practices-Handbook.pdf

This handbook created in 2006 profiles 95 youth-led and youth-focused HIV/AIDS projects from 25 countries in Africa. It is intended to highlight the work of African youth to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to provide best practices examples that can be replicated in Africa and globally. The handbook aims to encourage further education and prevention efforts, promote African youth leadership to curb the pandemic, and create as well as sustain opportunities for the participation of African youth in local, national, regional, and international efforts to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS.

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blogging-positively.pdf

This guide produced by Rising Voices is part of a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership.

This 2007 essay by Janet Feldman details the activities of ActALIVE ("Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision, Education"), an arts coalition with 300 members in 35 countries.

Read the full essay here

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unfpa-empowering-young-women-hiv-toolkit.pdf

In 2006, the United Nations Population Fund and World YWCA released an easy to follow training manual designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate workshops.

Above, you can download the section of the manual which focuses on HIV & AIDS and includes instructions on how to run a 6-part workshop with a group of 10-20 friends or strangers.

Please Note:
You may need to refer to the full manual which can be found here.

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Exploring-stigma-through-drawings-and-stories.pdf

AIDS stigma refers to prejudice and discrimination directed at people or groups perceived to have HIV/AIDS (Herek, 1999). Although AIDS stigma has been found in adolescent and adult populations, few researchers have explored it among children. Misconceptions about people with AIDS (PWA) might lead to negative attitudes toward PWA and obstruct HIV prevention efforts. The authors assessed 110 Puerto Rican children’s attitudes toward PWA using drawings (n=65) and stories (n=45).