HIV/AIDS Prevention through Improvement of Sexuality Education and Sexual Health Services for Adolescents in the Baltic Countries

Countries

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Period

2003-2004.

Recipients

Family Planning Association of Estonia, Latvia’s Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health and Lithuanian Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health.

Funding Agency

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida.

Description

The overall goal of the project is to improve sexual health among youth (by reducing the number of HIV/AIDS and other STIs and unwanted pregnancies) through improving sexual health education in the school system and creating grounds for sustainable supporting activities for sexual health education in the Baltic countries. The focus of the activities will be on:

Training of master trainers, who will serve as a basis for an education center for sexuality education.
Advocacy training for FPA staff in order for them to be able to raise awareness among parliamentarians and decision makers on different levels of the importance of introducing compulsory sexuality education in schools as a mean to improve sexual and reproductive health among adolescents.