Adolescent friendly services

Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework 2014/15-2018/19

This WHO’s Evidence Brief highlights some of the key points of discussion during the ESA regional consultation on HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health and rights for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) held in Windhoek on 1-3 February. The Evidence Brief is now available here.

WHO launched in May the long-awaited Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to Support Country Implementation. Click here for the press-release and other resources. This is a guidance to operationalize the adolescent component of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2020). Interestingly, this new guidance moves away from entry points for adolescent health, as HIV and SRH, to address broader adolescent health issues.  Click here to access the AA-HA! guidance document.

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance published in May 2017 a good practice guide on Adolescent HIV programming. This guide contains information, strategies  and resources, including UNICEF materials, to help programmers meet good practice standards for HIV programming for adolescents. It can be used at any time in the programme cycle to assess good practice, and to help develop proposals and monitoring and evaluation frameworks. Click here to access the guide.

Reaching unreachable population: multi-collaboration framework to improve young key population access towards HIV-related services in demonstration site of Bandung, Indonesia.

A Compendium of Selected Projects in PEPFAR-Supported Countries

This guidance document and its accompanying tool, the Adolescent Assessment and Decision-Makers Tool (AADM), were devised to facilitate country assessments aimed at strengthening the adolescent component of national HIV programmes. The purpose of the country assessments is to: (1) support country teams in the identification of equity and performance gaps affecting adolescent HIV programming; and (2) define priority actions to improve the effectiveness of the national adolescent HIV response.

Synthesis Report of the Rapid Assessment of Adolescent and HIV Programme Context in Five Countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Jamaica, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.

The assessment process described in this report was designed to support countries to strengthen the adolescent component of their national HIV programmes. Through the review of existing data on HIV, health and development in adolescents the assessments are a systematic way to identify equity and performance gaps affecting adolescent HIV programming.