AIDS Foundation East West

'AIDS Foundation East-West's Annual Report 2010'

'Engagement with Most-at-Risk Youth'

By reaching high-risk youth early with effective interventions, programmes have the chance to help prevent initiation into injecting drug use, entry into sex work, high-risk sexual activity, and incarceration. In cases in which such behaviors have already started, programmes have the opportunity to prevent many of their negative consequences, including HIV. For these reasons, AFEW has developed the following strategy to guide its work in this area.