ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH

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For Press and Policy Makers

Many young people are resilient, intelligent, talented, energetic, and inquisitive, even though all youth are more often portrayed as "problems." Youth want accurate information and answers to their questions. They want respect, and they want to be taken seriously. Many talented youth are working to improve their world—to mitigate the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, to educate their peers, to provide information and support to other youth, and to improve their communities.

Reporters, this section of the Web site will lead you to accurate information about adolescent sexuality. For more information or to set up an interview with adolescent sexuality experts or activist youth, please contact Bill Barker at (202) 419-3420.

• Media Brief: Will the Politics of Teen Sex Stop a Cancer Vaccine?
• Background information on the Respect Yourself. Protect Yourself. Condom Campaign
• Personal stories of young people advocating for change within their communities
• Columns by sexual health experts with tips for parents, tips that can also enlighten reporters about parents' communication with their children about sex.
• Hot topics in adolescent sexuality
  • Abstinence-only-until-marriage programs
  • Adolescent sexual behavior & contraceptive use
  • Emergency contraception
  • Parent-child communication
• Issues confronting young people in the United States and the developing world
• Programs that work to lessen negative sexual health outcomes among youth
• Press releases
• Statistics

Policy makers, this section of the Web site will lead you to accurate information about:

• Issues confronting young people in the United States and the developing world
• Programs that work to lessen negative sexual health outcomes among youth
• Young people and global HIV and AIDS
• Young people and international family planning
• Statistics