Integrating Youth into Health Programs: Considerations for Implementing the Youth in Development Policy is intended to assist global health staff and health officer to understand the importance of addressing the health needs of youth in their programming, and it suggests tools that staff can use to assess the needs of youth and to develop programs. This document is the first of an occasional series of resources and tools to be developed on youth health programming.

Integrating Youth into Health Programs

As the number of vertically infected adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) continues to grow, there is an increased need to support these individuals as they transition from pediatric to adult care. With the limited number of health and community care providers throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, it is likely that many adolescents will not experience a physical transition from one clinic to another; however, all ALHIV undergo a mental transition to adulthood, and during this time self-care and self-management of HIV is key.

Toolkit for Transition of Care and Other Services for Adolescents Living with HIV

Every young person deserves the right to be ready for life’s opportunities and challenges at every age and stage.
What will make this vision a reality? We now have more than two decades’ worth of research to help us act with precision. There is a science to readiness. The Readiness Project is designed to make this science clear, accessible and actionable.

The Science (And Art) of Youth Readiness

Adolescent girls have become a key target population for empowerment, health, and development initiatives in low- and middle-income countries. Building Girls’ Protective Assets: A Collection of Tools for Program Design is intended for organizations that are committed to extending their programs to reach excluded subpopulations of girls and young women—whether they are the poorest girls in the poorest communities, the 10–14-year-old girls who are out of school and not living with either parent, or another subpopulation of young girls that is likely to miss out.

BUILDING GIRLS’ PROTECTIVE ASSETS

This toolkit provides program guidance for engaging men and boys in promoting gender equality and health. Specific topics include sexual and reproductive health, maternal, newborn, and child health, fatherhood, HIV/AIDS, and gender-based violence prevention. In addition to program examples, this toolkit contains guidance on advocacy, needs assessment, and monitoring and evaluation related to efforts to engage men and boys (2010).

Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality and Health