1. USE OF THE CONDOM
9% ♀ and 16% ♂ refer to a consistant usage with a steady partner.
11%♀ and 24% ♂ refer to a consistant usage with an occasional partner.
32% of men having sex with other men say they use condoms.
45% of men having relations with sexual workers say they use the condom
(Preven 2002: Encuesta domiciliaria de ETS y conducta sexual en hombres y mujeres de 18 a 29 años en 24 ciudades del país).

2. Prevention strategies in STDs and HIV with adolescence
To be effective, strategies need to integrate a large variety of actors such as individuals, family, and institutions. They should include: :
educational intervention with school-based programs
Programs to touch youth outside of school premises.
Programs seeking to diminish access barriers to condoms
By improving negociation capabilities in regards to its use
By ensuring distribution and access to the population groups that are in need.
Father/mother-adolescent communication
A poor communication level is associated with undesired pregnancies, low usage of condoms, a low self-esteem, an incapacity to negociate with a partner and an ↑ in STDs and HIV.

3. Kallpa’s experiences

4. What is a healthy and pleasant sexual life?
Having access to up-to date and objective information
Using prevention methods to avoid STDs, HIV and undesired pregnancies
Having a voluntary and mutually consented first sexual relationship
Having at one’s disposition minimum economic means
Appropriating oneself of his or her body: pleasure
Participating in youth oriented spaces
Expressing one’s feelings, emotions and needs

5. What is youth protagonism?
It is a social process in which the youth and the adolescent plays the principal role in his development and that of his community to attain the full realization of his own rights.
(Organización pro niños y niñas centroamericanas  PRONICE)

6. Adolescents and youth have a healthy sexual life and prevent HIV-AIDS
Youth protagonism
Exercise of their rights
Capabilities for life
Capabilities for citizenship
Conduction of emotions
Assertive communication
Conflict resolution
Negociation for the use of the condon
Decision making
-Participation
Administration
Concertation
Incidence and vigilance
Creativity
Proper use of condm
Citizenship initiatives

7. What are citizenship initiatives?
They are spaces in which conditions help facilitate responses to the epidemic, to the reality of youth and of public policy touching upon HIV /AIDS. These initiatives take into account inter-institutional and inter-sectorial considerations at a local, regional and national level.

8. Ciudad Vida Sida (City life AIDS):
La Red Sur Vida, local network of multi-sectoral institutions works on inter-generational capabilities and youth protagonism using socio-cultural animation as methodology
“The train of your life” is a campaign which allows youth to know their sexual and reproductive rights et express themselves in relation to the exercise of those rights

9. Discosida
It is a tent that is set up as a discotheque where teenagers receive information on the prevention of STDs and HIV-AIDS,. They can practice putting on condoms and engage in role playing and negociation exercises