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Mixed in key satellite sessions10/20/2023 These risks are exacerbated by a cultural context of hostility towards or silence on youth sexuality and limited access to information and confidential, youth-friendly SRH services. The research findings, presented by Babatunde Ahonsi, revealed high risk sexual behaviours and relatively poor health seeking behaviours among youth aged 15-24 across the study countries making them highly vulnerable to HIV and SRH morbidity. ![]() Taiwo (Youth Advocate Group, Education as a Vaccine) and Eka Esu Williams (Ford ![]() (AIDS Consortium Rebranding HIV), Kikelomo United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Phindile Sithole-Spong The session was moderated by Humphrey Nabimanya of Reach a Hand Uganda (RAHU) and the panelists included Babatunde Ahonsi (Population Council), Chris Castle (UNESCO – ![]() The session consisted of a presentation of the research findings, panelists’ reactions to the study findings and a discussion with the audience about the issues that were raised. “Getting Real with Youth-Friendly Services in Africa.” The objective of the session was to stimulate young people to engage with and react to the study findings and in the light of these findings, discuss and share their perspectives, experiences and concerns about how responsive existing policies, programs and services are to the HIV prevention and impact mitigation needs of young Africans. On July 22 2012, the Ford Foundation and Population Council co-sponsored a satellite session at the XIX International AIDS Society Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington D.C. Qualitative inquiries (focus group discussions, indepth interviews and key informant interviews). It comprised of extensive countryspecific literature reviews, legal and policy assessments, statistical analyses of recent national sexual and reproductive health (SRH)/HIV-related behavioural survey datasets and focused The study aimed to provide a comprehensive evidencebased picture of the HIV related issues facing young people in the six study countries and the prevailing legal, policy, and programmatic responses. Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Population Council in collaboration with the Ford Foundation implemented a mixed method crosssectional comparative study with an analytical focus on the commonalities and differences across six focal African countries - Egypt, Kenya, With an aim to fill this pertinent gap, the ![]() However, there is a dearth of robust data on youth that are sufficiently disaggregated to adequately reveal the specific HIV-related vulnerabilities, including stigma and discrimination faced by African’s youth. This is more so because the wellbeing of youth, who make up about one-fifth of the total African population, is intricately tied to the continent’s development prospects 2. Policymakers and program managers need sound and timely evidence to better target interventions that are rapidly needed to effectively address the HIV prevention and impact mitigation needs (including stigma and discrimination) of the various categories of youth across the region. These figures reveal the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on Africa’s youth yet they do not provide a comprehensive picture of the varied HIV prevalence and their effects among different subgroups of young Africans since they are a highly heterogeneous population. Africa’s young people aged 15-24 years are disproportionately infected and affected by HIV/AIDS as evidenced by the nearly 4 million of sub Saharan African youth who currently live with the virus and the fact that twenty countries in the region Africa accounted for about 69% of all new HIV infections globally in young people in 2009 1.
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