The Guttmacher Institute recently released a new report on the views and attitudes of adults regarding the sexual and reproductive health needs of young people in Ghana. The report is the final analysis in a larger five-year study of adolescent sexual and reproductive health called Protecting the Next Generation: Understanding HIV Risk Among Youth. This qualitative study draws on 60 in-depth interviews with parents, teachers, health care workers and community leaders, in two urban and two rural more...

Authors: ; International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Publisher: International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006.
This workshop report from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance examines how to develop polices and programmes which promote condom use as an HIV prevention strategy. The report contains presentations and discussions from the workshop held in 2006, The topics explored include: the relationship between sexuality, gender and condom use; attempting to understand and work with the diverse personal and cultu more...

This project by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis provides futures projections for Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia. In addition to briefs and maps, the site provides quantitative models that one can use to project the implications of proposed policy choices. The materials seem to date from 2001, and projections are made to 2010.

In a country where male circumcision – and its cultural connotations – have been the stuff of contention, a pilot project has been launched to roll out the HIV/AIDS prevention method that has historically been associated with better reproductive health. Watch as two young boys and their community take the plunge and go under the knife in a procedure that could become the future of AIDS prevention.

New programs and policies aimed at preventing HIV in Africa should focus on providing earlier and more comprehensive sex education and reinforcing national health care systems to better serve youth, according to important new research released today... for more information, visit: http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2007/12/12/index.html (Guttmacher Institute, 12 December 2007)

The Winter 2008 issue focuses on abortion rights as human rights. It includes articles about human rights in Latin America, reproductive justice, and using a human-rights framework to teach health providers, as well as interviews with Monica Roa, an attorney who worked to overturn Colombia's restrictive ban on abortion, and Marianne Mollmann, advocacy director for the Women's Rights division of Human Rights Watch.

A new report from Malawi shows that comprehensive sex education plays an essential role in protecting young people from unintended pregnancy and HIV. The report is based on data from a 2004 nationally representative survey of 4,031 adolescents aged 12-19. Additionally, it draws on findings from 102 in-depth interviews and 11 focus group discussions with adolescents from both urban and rural areas.

You can access the full report free of charge at: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2007/12/10/PNG more...

Full-title: Guidance on Global Scale-Up of the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Towards universal access for women, infants and young children and eliminating HIV and AIDS among children.
"This publication was developed by the Interagency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Transmission in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Children in response to the slow overall progress to scale up prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in resource-constrained settings. It pr more...

This booklet is the first in a series of publications on good practice in responding to the impact of HIV and AIDS on education. Aimed primarily at government, donor and NGO policymakers, planners and managers, the series presents ideas, research results, and policy and programmatic examples from both formal and non-formal learning environments.

Booklet 1 provides an overview of why HIV and AIDS are important issues for the education sector, identifies weaknesses in current policy and program more...

Authors: S. James; A. McCauley; P. Reddy, Publisher: Horizons Program/Population Council, 2005.

This paper from the Horizons Program evaluates the effectiveness of a HIV education programme aimed at secondary school students. It presents the findings of a study which measured the impact of a school-based HIV education programme in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa. The study found that participating in the programme had a positive impact on the students' knowledge about HIV, on the more...