Youth Centered Counseling for HIV/STI Prevention and Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health

This guide for youth-centred counseling, which includes both a book and a CD, aims to be a tool to assist front-line providers in reaching young people and effectively promoting sexual health. Developed by the Child and Adolescent Health and HIV/AIDS Units, Family and Community Health Area, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) / World Health Organization (WHO), it contains detailed and theory-based actions and methods to improve the quality of services for young people.

According to PAHO, youth-centred counseling, to be effective, must respond to young people's individual sexual behaviour, context, and developmental stage. This guide aims to help providers engage in counseling that best fits the needs and wants of youth, providing the young person with the opportunity to learn essential skills for sexual and reproductive health development. While the book includes guidelines, strategies, and the theoretical underpinnings guiding the practice of counseling, the accompanying CD provides an additional practical tool. Based on experience from youth-centred counseling workshops, the CD serves both for self learning and as an instrument for teaching the material in a group setting.

Click here to download a PDF of this publication. Unfortunately, we can find no other online reference to the CD.