reproductive health services for adolescents - Pathfinder International

Module 16/Unit 8
Specific Objective #2: Identify prevention strategies used
successfully in preventing STI/HIV transmission in adolescents
CONTENT
Knowledge/Attitudes/Skills
PREVENTION STRATEGIES FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE
Young people should have information
about and be encouraged to:
• Delay onset of sexual activity.
Abstain from vaginal and anal
intercourse until married or in a stable
relationship.
• Learn how to use condoms. Young
adolescents should practice using
condoms before becoming sexually
active. If young people are already
sexually active, it is important to
make sure they know how to use
condoms correctly.
• Use condoms. These may be
discontinued only when pregnancy is
desired or when both partners in a
stable relationship know for certain
they are disease-free.
• Limit the number of partners. Stick
with one partner.
• Avoid high-risk partners. Girls and
boys should avoid older partners, sex
workers, drug users, and truck
drivers.
• Recognize symptoms of STIs. If a
person experiences burning with
urination, discharge from the
penis/vagina, and/or genital sores,
young people and their partners
should not have sex and should
come to the clinic for treatment.
• Discuss sexual issues. Young men
and women must feel comfortable
Training/Learning Methods
(Time Required)
SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION
(30 MIN.)
The trainer should:
• Put colored candy or small pieces of
colored paper in a bag or hat. Make
sure you have 4-5 different colors.
• Pass the bag around the room.
• Break Px into smaller groups based
on the color they chose.
• Pass out different colored paper of
different sizes to each group. For
example, each group should have
many pieces of large blue paper and
many pieces of smaller yellow paper.
• Ask Px to write on the larger pieces
possible prevention strategies for
STIs, i.e. encourage abstinence.
• Ask Px to write on the smaller pieces
of paper ways that these prevention
strategies could be implemented, e.g.
abstinence education.
• Allow 20 minutes for writing.
• Ask each group to tape their answers
on the wall with the smaller pieces of
paper underneath the prevention
strategies.
• Reconvene the large group.
• Discuss answers. Try to group
answers so that in the end you have
one comprehensive list.
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