HIV prevention can work. Yet, more than 17 million women and young women were living with HIV in 2006. And in some parts of the world, young women are three times more likely to be HIV positive than young men.

Goals

1 Improve the accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services for girls and young women

2 Expand socio-economic opportunities for girls and young women

3 End child marriage

Key messages

1 Link HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health policies and programmes.

2 Scale up key HIV prevention services, especially the provision of voluntary counselling and testing and female/male condoms.

3 Expand ‘positive prevention’ services for people living with HIV.

4 Make sexual and reproductive health services youth-friendly and gender-sensitive.

5 Provide tailor-made, non-stigmatizing sexual and reproductive health services for ‘key populations’.

6 Introduce/enforce comprehensive national legislation that protects the rights of girls, young women and people living with HIV.

7 Increase economic options, including developing innovative partnerships.

8 Promote approaches that address gender inequality and provide a full range of HIV prevention options.

9 Strengthen leadership skills and involvement in
decision making.

10 Outlaw child marriage in all areas of national
legislation, enforce supportive legislation and work with gatekeepers to change social norms.

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