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WHO’s strategy for
adolescent health and young people
WHO is working to strengthen and accelerate
country-level health sector action in relation to adolescents and young
people, and thereby enable a range of actors to maximise
their contributions to an expanded response for achieving the global goals.
This will include a focus on:
 Strategic
information:
strengthening
capacity in countries to collect, analyse and
disseminate the data necessary for programmes, policies
and advocacy, focusing on adolescents and young people and related domains
(sexual and reproductive health, alcohol/drugs, violence), through
biological, behavioural, determinant and
programmatic indicators;
Services
and supplies:
increasing
adolescents access to information and counselling,
reducing risk through condoms and harm reduction, and providing adolescent friendly health services, through trained service providers
working in a variety of settings in a
strengthened health system, with the involvement of adolescents and
young people and the engagement of the community, and including a focus on
all adolescents and young people and particularly vulnerable groups and
settings;
Supportive
policy environment:
ensuring that the health sector is able to provide the
evidence-base and examples of good practice, in relation to issues which
promote or obstruct the development and implementation of effective policies
and programmes for the prevention and care among
adolescents and young people.
Strengthening
action in other sectors
Mobilizing
and supporting other sectors to contribute to HIV prevention and care:
 Education (school health services, information
about the availability of services)
NGOs/CBOs (reaching
vulnerable groups at high-risk of HIV/AIDS)
Youth (service provision, information and
mobilization)
Criminal-justice (reaching vulnerable groups
at high-risk of HIV/AIDS)
Media (information about the need for, and
availability of services)
Labour (work-place
interventions, information)
Armed forces
Strategy for
adolescent health and development in
South-East Asia Region [PDF 175 KB]
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Regional
Strategy being updated
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