Curricula and Educational Tools
Educational guides, curricula documents, activities, and handbooks for conducting comprehensive sexuality education, peer education, or outreach.
Adolescent Girls and Young Women Mentoring Program Toolkit
YouthPower Action, 2018
(mental and emotional health, peer support)
A comprehensive toolkit for training, supporting, and monitoring mentors for adolescent girls and young women on topics including HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health alongside soft skills, financial capacities, violence prevention, and other topics.
ART Literacy Series
SafAIDS, 2008
(positive living)
This series of 8 booklets, a trainer of trainers manual, handouts, and activities is designed to help children and adolescents living with HIV understand and take ownership of their HIV treatment.
iCAN Package: A Comprehensive Life Skills Package Focusing on HIV, Sexuality, and Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) and their Circles of Care
SafAIDS, 2017
(peer support, positive living)
Facilitator’s guide and participant workbook designed for young people living with HIV and those who work with them.
International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education: An Evidence-informed Approach
UNESCO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNWomen, and WHO, 2018
(peer support)
Summary of the evidence and globally agreed definitions, standards, and key topics for comprehensive sexuality education. Available in English, Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Burmese, Thai, Portuguese, and Mongolian from UNESCO.
It’s All One Curriculum
Population Council, 2009
(peer support)
A comprehensive sexuality education curriculum including guidelines and activities. Available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Bangla, Arabic, and Portuguese from the Population Council.
Managing Grief and Loss
Frontline AIDS, 2019
(mental and emotional health, peer support)
Leaflet for peer supporters with tools to help young people living with and affected by HIV manage grief and loss.
My Living Positively Handbook
Children’s Rights Center, 2007
(positive living)
A handbook for children living with HIV and companion book for parents, caregivers, social workers, health providers, and others.
Positive Connections: Leading Information and Support Groups for Adolescents Living with HIV
FHI 360, 2013
(mental and emotional health, peer support, positive living)
A facilitator’s guide, lesson plans, and evaluation tool for running support groups with adolescents living with HIV.
Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention
Global Network of People living HIV, 2017
(positive living)
A series of tools developed to help people living with HIV, their organizations, and networks to describe, advocate for, and implement positive health, dignity, and prevention in their communities. The series includes policy standards, guidance for people living with HIV, and operational guidelines.
Positive Voices, Positive Choices: A Comprehensive Training Curriculum for Adolescent Peer Educators
ICAP, 2011
(peer support)
Peer education curriculum including facilitator and participant guides intended to develop program capacity to involve adolescents living with HIV in providing peer support to other adolescents.
Pyschosocial Wellbeing Series
REPSSI
(mental and emotional health)
A series of 10 handbooks, facilitator guides, advocacy tools, and implementation tools focused on mainstreaming psychosocial care and support into pediatric and adolescent HIV care and treatment.
Respect My Rights, Respect My Dignity Module 3: Sexual and Reproductive Rights are Human Rights
Amnesty International, 2015
(peer support, rights)
Training and facilitation manual focused on sexual and reproductive rights advocacy for adolescents and young people.
Sexuality and Life Skills: Participatory Activities on Sexual and Reproductive Health with Adolescents and Young People
Frontline AIDS, 2019
(peer support)
Facilitation and activity guide for peer educators or others interested in running participatory learning activities with adolescents and young people on their sexual and reproductive health. Available in English, French, Portugeuse, and Swahili from Frontline AIDS.
Stigma and Self-Stigma
Frontline AIDS, 2019
(mental and emotional health, peer support)
Leaflet of advice to peer supporters to help young people living with HIV cope with stigma and self-stigma.
Teaching Human Rights: Practical Activities for Primary and Secondary Schools
UN OHCHR, 2004
(rights)
A curriculum of classroom lesson plans for learning about human rights.
Teen Talk: A Guide for Positive Living
Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative
(positive living)
A resource book for adolescents living with HIV and negotiating sexuality, treatment, and positive prevention.
Understanding, Accepting, and Disclosing Your HIV Status
Frontline AIDS, 2019
(positive living)
A series of three leaflets designed to help young people living with HIV understand and accept their HIV status, and decide whether and how they want to share it with others.