Peer Education: A Viable Approach for Reaching Youth

This brief focuses on the following points:

Peer education can be an effective way to improve youth reproductive and sexual health outcomes (unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV).
Greater exposure and improved outcomes are associated with the quality of peer education programs.
Programs should ensure high quality by emphasizing adequate training, retention efforts, monitoring and evaluation, curriculum/structure, and meaningful youth involvement.

File:

English (49.7k)

Length:

2 p

Year:

2008

Organization:

INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs

Languages:

English

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