STD/STI/HIV/AIDS
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– General Information –
Adolescent STI/HIV Prevention Programs 
Description: Why are STI rates so high among adolescents? What strategies can program providers use to help adolescents reduce their risk? Sales and DiClemente explore these questions, summarizing results from their systematic review of prevention programs.
Center for Disease Control National Prevention Information Network
Description: HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB information
Fact Sheet on Latino Youth: STIs and HIV/AIDS
Author: Brindis, C. (6 more by this author); LT Valderrama; MA Biggs; AK Driscoll
Description: This fact sheet provides information and statistics regarding Latino youth and STIs and HIV/AIDS. Though condom use is increasing among Latinos,6 unsafe sexual behavior continues to put them at risk for contracting STIs. Increasing awareness regarding the nature of STIs, methods of prevention, and access to health care services that ensure early detection and treatment can help Latino youth protect their health and fertility and the health of their current and future partners.
Description: Teens are among the most likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease. Learn more about STD prevention.
Sexual Health in Young Adulthood:Protecting Yourself from Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Author: Powell, Erin; Amy F. Hosier, Family Studies
Description: This fact sheet provides information for youth about sexual health and sexually transmitted infections.
Tips For Teens: The Truth About HIV/AIDS
Description: A fact sheet for teens about HIV/AIDS.
Young Women of Color and the HIV Epidemic
Author: Augustine, Jennifer (1 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet about young women of color and HIV.
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National Resource Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Adolescents
Description: The goal of this center is to build national capacity in youth HIV prevention by providing a central, online location for resources, professional literature, evidence-based programs and practices, and technical assistance.
The Youth Social Marketing Toolkit
Description: The Youth Social Marketing Toolkit provides an overview of how agencies with limited financial resources can develop a social marketing campaign that reaches youth and young adults. The information provided on this site will guide you through the many decisions that must be made throughout this process with practical examples from the field of sexual and reproductive health.
– Professional Development –
Tips For Teens: The Truth About HIV/AIDS
Description: A fact sheet for teens about HIV/AIDS.
– Programming Resource –
Center for Disease Control National Prevention Information Network
Description: HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB information
Children, Adolescents and HIV/AIDS
Description: A fact sheet about HIV/AIDS.
HIV Counseling and Testing for Youth
Description: This HIV counseling and testing manual is designed for service providers and counselors working with youth.
HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Adolescents Slide Series
Description: HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Adolescents
L265 slide series
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Description: Sexually Transmitted Infections
While adolescents represent approximately 25% of the sexually active population, they account for about one-half of all new sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Sexually active adolescents and young adults are more susceptible to STIs for biological, behavioral and cultural reasons.
YAN 101: Youth Activist Network Online Training Modules
Description: Conceived to equip members of Advocates' Youth Activist Network (YAN) with all the information they need to be effective, knowledgeable activists, YAN 101 is a series of interactive online education modules on topics in adolescent reproductive and sexual health. Young people ages 13-24 who take all the modules and pass the final test will become Certified YAN 101 Activists.
– Research –
Condom Use and Consistency Among Teen Males
Description: “A new Child Trends study finds that any type of formal sex education is linked with higher levels of condom use at teen males' first sexual experience. However, one in five teen males (ages 15-19) did not receive formal sex education about either abstinence or contraception before having sex for the first time. The study, published in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health and summarized in a fact sheet, Condom Use and Consistency Among Teen Males, examines how multiple dimensions of teen males' lives are associated with condom use and consistency. "
Description: In this narrated presentation, Meera Beharry, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, covers the basics of HIV and AIDS, including how HIV leads to AIDS, and HIV transmission, prevention, and screening. (25 minutes)
HIV/AIDS and Young People: Risk and Protective Factors
Description: In this narrated presentation, Meera Beharry, MD, focuses on risk and protective factors specifically related to adolescents and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Beharry is assistant professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center. (26 minutes)
Planning for Evidence-Based Programming: Introducing the PSBA-GTO
Author: Wilson, Mary
Description: In this narrated presentation, Mary Martha Wilson of Healthy Teen Network reviews what is currently accepted about using evidence-based programs for adolescent sexual health, and introduces the green/yellow/red light adaptation framework. (9 minutes)
Planning for Evidence-Based Programming: Introducing the PSBA-GTO
Author: Dotterweich, Jutta (7 more by this author)
Description: In this narrated presentation, Jutta Dotterweich of Cornell University offers an overview of a highly recommended planning framework for communities seeking to improve adolescent sexual health. (11 minutes)
Using Media and Technology to Improve Sexual Health Outcomes for Youth
Author: Cohall, Alwyn
Description: In this narrated presentation, Alwyn Cohall, MD, demonstrates that in clinical practice, using youth-friendly technology can lead to far better outcomes for adolescent sexual health. Dr. Cohall directs the Harlem Health Promotion Center. (13 minutes)