There are one and a half billion young people under the age of 25 in the world today. Their behaviour, attitudes and beliefs will shape tomorrow s world.
Young people experiment with sex, as with other things in their lives.
Approximately 60 per cent of HIV infections are found in this age group and over half of the world s population has had unprotected sex before the age of 16. This report argues that AIDS-prevention programmes must target young men as well as young women. Many male youths know very little about the disease and do not know where to go for information. They are constrained by the necessity of impressing their peers, hiding their emotions and showing strength rather than weakness. And yet precisely because they are still young, change is possible.