This brief aims to inform discussions about how best to provide health services, programmes and support for young transgender people. It offers a concise account of current knowledge concerning the HIV risk and vulnerability of young transgender people; the barriers and constraints they face to appropriate services; examples of programmes that may work well in addressing their needs and rights; and approaches and considerations for providing services that both draw upon and build the strengths, competencies and capacities of these young people.

HIV and young transgender people

Main principles of declaration, key population, statistics, challenges and perspectives about HIV prevention.

Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030

The United Nations supporting country-led responses to AIDS; Key Messages, statistics, useful links

Young People and HIV

Focusing on the shift in the demand for youth labour towards either low-paying service sector jobs or higher-skill professional jobs, which has resulted in the emergence of a new form of labour stratification. Attention is then given to the intermediary zone, a growing sector occupied by large numbers of young people in both the more developed and less developed countries. Youth working in this zone are between the worlds of employment and unemployment.

YOUTH Employment

This paperrepresents a contribution to the ILO’s Action Programme on Youth Unemployment being undertaken in the 1996-97 biennium. The Action Programme isintended to: (i) raise awareness amongst constituents concerning the problems associated with the labour market entry of young people; (ii) to improve their understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the principal policy and programme options for tackling the problem of youth unemployment; and thus, (iii) enhance the capacity of member States to design and implement policies and programmes for promoting youth employment.

The challenge of youth unemployment