HIV Prevention with Especially Vulnerable Young People

This publication shows how projects in Argentina, Nigeria, Iran, India and Kenya are working with young people in contexts of special vulnerability to prevent HIV. Building on the five core principles and three areas of action outlined in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Among Especially Vulnerable Young People - A Framework for Action, which are also summarised at the beginning of this publication, each case study describes an approach to working with young people who are homeless, using drugs, selling sex or living in economically deprived communities.

The following projects are studied in depth: HIJOS (Children for Identity and Justice and against Forgetting and Silence), a political/human rights organisation in Argentina, working with young homeless men who sell sex in a part of Buenos Aires; Carolina for Kibera (CFK), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) working with youth in a low-income, informal urban community in Nairobi, Kenya; Persepolis (an NGO) and the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME)-supported Triangular Clinics, who are working with drug users living, often on the streets, in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran; and Praajak, a community organisation committed to promoting the rights of children in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. A full chapter on lessons learned concludes the publication.