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Increasing Access to Services Gap
Youth-friendly services are needed within schools to increase access to condoms and/or HIV testing for those who are sexually active. A study found that youth in numerous countries do not have information or access to condoms within school systems.
Increasing Access to Services
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Further evaluation of the potential use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for adolescent women is needed. PrEP has been successfully used by people who inject drugs (Choopanya et al., 2013 cited in Pettitfor et al., 2015), but no studies were found among adolescents who inject drugs. ART is being formulated in vaginal rings (Baeten et al., 2016) which may increase use by adolescents without requiring daily pill taking (Brady et al., 2013 and Tolley et al., 2013 cited in Pettitfor et al., 2015); however, the initial pilot trial showed no effcicacy for those under age 21 but efficacy for those over age 21. One study of qualitative interviews with young women found that if given the option of PrEP, they would not use condoms (Corneli et al., 2015).
Increasing Access to Services
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Actions are needed to increase young people’s knowledge of when and where to access health services, including access to contraception and condoms. A UNESCO review found that young people lacked knowledge of where to access health services to meet their needs. Adolescents in numerous countries are sexually active, yet have low rates of contraceptive use. Adolescents need accurate detailed information about the level of risk of different sex acts (oral, genital and anal). Studies found that youth aged 15 to 24 were at high risk of either acquiring HIV or testing HIV-positive, yet less likely to report having been tested for HIV. Increased knowledge that HIV-positive infants can survive to adolescence is also needed so that these young people can get tested for HIV and access services. In some countries, HIV prevalence among both female and male adolescents who tested for HIV was as high as 16%. [See also Meeting the %{s:35}]
Increasing Access to Services
1 study