Preventing hiv/aids in young people : evidence from developing countries who technical report series, no 938.
Young people are particularly vulnerable to HIV: 15 24 year olds account for 50% of new cases. Five to six thousand youths become infected every day, most of them in developing countries. The UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in June 2001 set a number of goals to drive efforts to reduce pr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
World Health Organization,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of contents; 1. Introduction and rationale; 2. Young people: the centre of the HIV epidemic; 3. Overview of effective and promising interventions to prevent HIV infection; 4. The weight of evidence: a method for assessing the strength of evidence on the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions among young people; 5. The effectiveness of sex education and HIV education interventions in schools in developing countries; 6. Review of the evidence for interventions to increase young people's use of health services in developing countries.