Participation on HIV Prevention & Peer Influence on Drug Addiction

The U.S. President¿s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Emergency Plan/PEPFAR) is involving youth in its efforts to strengthen HIV/AIDS prevention. The strategy focuses on promoting abstinence and faithfulness, while also creating a supportive family and community environment for discussing HIV/AIDS. Dedicated and responsible young people are getting involved in a variety of HIV prevention activities. That young people gain more from an experience when they are actively involved is a core premise of youth development/sexual health programming. Research also suggests that programs for youth which are developed through a partnership of youth and adults may be highly effective in building young people's skills and reducing their sexual risk-taking behaviors. The last two hundred years has seen a spectacular expansion in enrollments in basic education. In 1830, near-universal primary education was limited to a few states in the United States, and the great majority of the World¿s children received no formal education at all.