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NASTAD’s youth activities within HIV and STD prevention provide programmatic and policy technical assistance (TA) to state and territorial HIV/AIDS programs in a number of youth related issues including the integration of HIV, STD and unintended teen pregnancy prevention for youth, addressing the needs of youth of color, youth in high-risk situations, youth involvement in community planning, and state health and education agency collaboration.
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Focus on Youth and HIV/AIDS: Defining an Agenda for Youth of Color -- Meeting Summary
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On March 12-14, 2007, NASTAD convened its second Focus on Youth and HIV/AIDS: Defining and Agenda for Youth of Color meeting in Washington, D.C. with the goal of strengthening HIV/AIDS prevention programs targeting youth of color (YOC) at the state and national level. The meeting provided participants an opportunity to share information about HIV/AIDS prevention programs targeting youth of color in their jurisdictions and to identify strategies to address programming gaps. Meeting Participants included AIDS directors, senior HIV prevention managers, managers or coordinators of directly funded prevention programs serving youth, and youth active in local HIV prevention programs or community planning groups. This report describes preliminary recommendations developed during this meeting, meeting follow-up and findings from the meeting evaluation.
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Focus on Youth and HIV/AIDS: Defining an Agenda for Youth of Color
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NASTAD convened a meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland, June 25–27, 2006, with state health department staff and youth working in HIV prevention programs, with the goals of: (1) strengthening HIV prevention programs targeting youth of color at the national and state level, and (2) gathering input to help shape the focus and direction of NASTAD’s Youth HIV Prevention Program. The meeting provided participants an opportunity to share information about youth of color HIV prevention programs in their jurisdiction and to identify strategies to address programming gaps. This report describes key products developed during this meeting as well as the findings from the meeting evaluation.
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ThinkHIV Website Launched
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 NASTAD supports think HIV, a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and MTV, that has launched the first ever multi-platform, interactive community HIV/AIDS website developed for adolescents and young adults in the U.S. This first-of-its-kind initiative gives every NASTAD member the opportunity to reach out to and engage young people in their states with key resources and information on HIV/AIDS, presented in new and dynamic ways.
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