CONTENTS
Chapters
- Growing Numbers, Diverse Needs
- Growth, Change, and Risk
- Programs for Young Adults
- Evaluation Findings
- Winning Support from the Community and
Young Adults
HIGHLIGHTS
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Controversy and fear of controversy have blocked large-scale service- delivery
programs in most countries (see Chapter 5.1, Building
Community Support). For the most part, health officials and
nongovernmental organizations have been able to win public and political
support only for small programs that serve the needs of specific groups
of young people with the most obvious, pressing health problems—groups such
as pregnant girls, homeless youth, young prostitutes, and drug users. As
a result, reproductive health services for youth—whether outreach clinics,
condom distribution, or contraceptive counseling—have remained small, isolated
efforts (see Table 9).
The high rate of HIV infection among young people has led to increased support
for small AIDS-prevention programs, which provide information, condoms,
and training in negotiation skills to young people at high risk. The experience
of these small, often innovative programs could inspire larger efforts if
they were more widely known and accepted. For example, small programs provide
some health services to young people in Jamaican youth centers, Ghanaian
YWCA hostels, Mexican and Thai factories, and Cyprian night club districts
(87, 95, 186, 479, 503). In Brazil and Tanzania pilot programs are experimenting
with methods of training community workers and health care providers who
work with young people (116, 372, 589). |
