Adolescent health

World AIDS Day: Global Snapshot on HIV and AIDS 2024

IsabellaP — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:47:34 +0000

World AIDS Day: Global Snapshot on HIV and AIDS 2024 IsabellaP Fri, 11/29/2024 - 20:47

UNICEF’s 2024 Global Snapshot, released for World AIDS Day, offers a concise yet critical overview of the global HIV and AIDS landscape, focusing on children, adolescents, and pregnant women. This year’s report highlights key data and insights, emphasizing the urgent need to eliminate vertical transmission of HIV and ensure universal access to testing and treatment for children and adolescents. Ending AIDS by 2030 is not just an achievable goal—it is a moral imperative to uphold the rights and dignity of every child and adolescent.

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Global Snapshot on HIV and AIDS 2024

World AIDS Day: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional 2024 Snapshot

IsabellaP — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:22:21 +0000

World AIDS Day: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional 2024 Snapshot IsabellaP Tue, 11/26/2024 - 18:22

This year's World AIDS Day theme is "Take the rights path". For this occasion, UNICEF published the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional 2024 Snapshot, featuring a regional overview of HIV trends, including vertical transmission, testing, and treatment for children and adolescents, as well as gender disparities affecting adolescent girls and young women.

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Adolescent and young key populations

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Transforming Vision Into Reality: The 2024 Global Alliance Progress Report on Ending AIDS in Children by 2030

IsabellaP — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:34:55 +0000

Transforming Vision Into Reality: The 2024 Global Alliance Progress Report on Ending AIDS in Children by 2030 IsabellaP Fri, 07/19/2024 - 20:34

This status report shows how far we have come—and how much further we must go—if we hope to meet the global commitments to end AIDS in children. It offers a snapshot of global progress and permits an early assessment of the impact of the Global Alliance’s work. This report highlights the transformative work that is being undertaken in Global Alliance countries to accelerate gains towards ending AIDS in children, underscoring the urgent need to apply good practices, emerging innovations and critical lessons learned to overcome the barriers that slow progress.

For additional information, consult the joint press release and the video created for the report launch at AIDS 2024.

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HIV & SRHR SBC Toolkit for Adolescents and Young People in ESA Region: Question & answer resource documents

IsabellaP — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:45:10 +0000

HIV & SRHR SBC Toolkit for Adolescents and Young People in ESA Region: Question & answer resource documents IsabellaP Fri, 07/19/2024 - 12:45

As part of the 2gether 4 SRHR joint UN programme, UNICEF ESARO in collaboration with Y+ Global and UNFPA ESARO, developed six key question and answer (Q&A) resource documents on HIV and SRH for adolescents and young people in ESA. The toolkit has been developed to assist country teams in improving knowledge and understanding, driving adolescent and youth engagement and behaviour change, and promoting uptake of services in ESA. The content has been developed with adolescents and young people. Part of a broader toolkit, the content is intended for adaptation and use across multiple SBC platforms, including digital approaches scripts for radio shows and peer counselling sessions.

Each Q&A has approximately 10 questions, and links to the other topic areas:

Healthy relationships
Staying safe
Sex and other stuff
All about HIV
Living with HIV
Being a young parent
Understanding Puberty
The HPV Vaccine
Talking with Your Children

Click and watch on how to access and use the toolkit

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Healthy relationships

Introduction to SRH & HIV Toolkit

The HPV vaccine

Understanding puberty

Talking with your children

Care and Support for Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS in School Settings: Perspectives of Teachers and Administrators in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

IsabellaP — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:20:35 +0000

Care and Support for Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS in School Settings: Perspectives of Teachers and Administrators in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania IsabellaP Fri, 07/19/2024 - 12:20

Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) encounter diverse challenges in school settings that impact their well-being and academic performance. This UNICEF-supported study sought to delve into the viewpoints of teachers and administrators regarding the care and support accessible to ALHIV in schools in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania.

Various forms of support for ALHIV in schools were identified. Schools had designated health teachers/matrons/ patrons responsible for addressing health-related issues, including those affecting ALHIV. Assistance for clinic visits and medication adherence was readily available. Peer clubs were established to combat stigma and discrimination while providing additional support. Nevertheless, challenges such as staff members’ limited knowledge and skills, reluctance to disclose, inadequate nutritional support, and insufficient backing from regional and district administrators persist.

The study also pinpointed areas for enhancement, such as capacity building for teachers and staff, bolstering support for disclosure, offering nutritious dietary options, reinforcing peer clubs, and fostering collaboration between the education and health sectors. These findings can inform the development of comprehensive interventions to support ALHIV in school settings better, ultimately advancing their well-being and academic achievements.

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United Republic of Tanzania

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Adolescent health

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2024

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Care and Support for ALHIV in School Settings: Perspectives of Teachers and Administrators in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents

IsabellaP — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:27:33 +0000

Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents IsabellaP Wed, 07/17/2024 - 17:27

UNICEF’s HIV/AIDS Thematic Fund is a global flexible funding pool. It enables us to strengthen systems to ensure an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents. This offers donors an exciting opportunity to target funding specifically to HIV/AIDS outcomes, while also giving UNICEF the flexibility to allocate funds based on where the need is greatest for children, including critically underfunded priorities at the country level, humanitarian response activities, and where funds will have the greatest impact. Thanks to our generous donors UNICEF’s Global HIV/ AIDS Thematic Fund income in 2022 reached over $5.7 million.

This document features the results achieved in 2022, when supporters of the HIV/AIDS Thematic Fund enabled UNICEF to allocate resources to 45 countries and territories. Funds were allocated to countries based on several measures determining the burden of HIV/AIDS on the population. These included the number of AIDS-related deaths in the country and the number of new infections among children and adolescents in the country. Funds were also allocated to UNICEF’s regional and global headquarters, supporting the vital work that allows thematic funding to unlock wide-scale results and impact the world over.

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Spotlight on the UNICEF HIV/AIDS Fund: Results achieved in 2022 to achieve an AIDS-free future for children and adolescents

Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents: Standards and criteria

IsabellaP — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:38:48 +0000

Global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents: Standards and criteria IsabellaP Fri, 06/14/2024 - 03:38

Global initiatives are urging countries to prioritize quality as a way of reinforcing human rights-based approaches to health. Yet evidence from both high- and low-income countries shows that services for adolescents are highly fragmented, poorly coordinated and uneven in quality. Pockets of excellent practice exist, but, overall, services need significant improvement and should be brought into conformity with existing guidelines.

The WHO/UNAIDS global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents aim to assist policy-makers and health service planners to improve the quality of health-care services, so that adolescents find it easier to obtain the health services that they need to promote, protect, and improve their health and well-being, according to their needs.

This publication presents global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents, as well as an implementation guide and monitoring tools.

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