Maintaining confidentiality and promoting young people’s right to confidentiality is essential to creating trust and encouraging young people to visit and continue using a service for preventive care and counselling.

Keys to youth-friendly services: Ensuring confidentiality

Young people are often seen as a single homogenous group, but in reality they are a diverse population whose sexual and reproductive health needs are complex,shifting, and varied. Each young person has a unique social,cultural and economicidentity that impacts on theirsexual and reproductive well-being.

Keys to youth-friendly services: Celebrating diversity

Sex-positivity celebrates sexuality as an enhancing part of life that brings happiness, energy and celebration; and recognises young people’s rights to express their thoughts, opinions, needs and desires related to sexuality.

Keys to youth-friendly services: Adopting a sex positive approach

This publication defines sexuality, identifies barriers to education, participation and sexual health for young women recommends key actions for policy-makers, describes positive programmes, tools and strategies that make an impact, advocates supporting partners and parents to talk about sexuality and sexual health.

Girls Decide: Choices on sex and pregnancy

This factsheet offers three examples of projects to develop the resilience of young people, distinguishes between vulnerability at individual and social levels, emphasises the importance of community involvement and support, explores the importance of social and economic context.

Young People: From vulnerability to resilience