VCT Toolkit - Voluntary Counseling and Testing and Young People

This 28-page booklet from Family Health International (FHI), part of a series of booklets in a VCT (voluntary counseling and testing) Toolkit, summarises issues related to VCT and youth, including the relevance and rationale of VCT for youth, approaches and service models to consider, the diversity of young people, barriers to consider, advocacy messages, short case studies, and more.

Some topics discussed in this paper include:

• many approaches can meet young people's HIV/AIDS-related needs;
• there is no ideal model for VCT services for young people;
• strategies for promoting VCT to young people;
• barriers to VCT for young people;
• strategies to increase young people's use of VCT.

The summary also includes eight case studies performed in different countries (Chile, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) as a way to highlight the knowledge gained about VCT and youth around the globe.