Building capacity in prevention of HIV and associated infections among youth at high risk

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This project addressed the area of HIV prevention among youth at high risk of getting HIV and associated infections. Project activities included assessment of needs of young people at risk in prevention programs, mapping best practices, training professionals, disseminating best practices and development of guidelines for stakeholders. Research conducted within the project showed that children and young people experimenting with drugs, migrant children and young people, as well as children and young people involved or at high risk of being involved into commercial sexual exploitation need effective prevention programs. Most prevention programs targeted at children and young people at high risk of getting HIV and associated infections implemented in the region were small-scaled, project based, sporadic and not stable. The project created a basis for the development and implementation in the Baltic Sea region of evidence-based prevention programs aimed at HIV and associated infections prevention among children and young people at high risk, which were developed, implemented and estimated in accordance with academic standards. The flagship involved six partners from Finland, Latvia, Poland and Russia.

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