[HIV prevention program for young people--the WYSH Project as a model of "combination prevention"].
In face of the HIV pandemic that still grows, unsuccessful efforts of developing biomedical control measures or the failure of cognitive-behavioral approach to show sustained social level effectiveness, behavioral strategy is now expected to evolve into a structural prevention ("combination prevention") that involves multiple behavioral goals and multilevel approaches. WYSH Project is a combination prevention project for youth developed through socio-epidemiological approach that integrates epidemiology with social science such as social marketing and mixed method. WYSH Project includes mass education programs for youth in schools and programs for out-of-school youth through cyber network and peer communication. Started in 2002, it expanded nationwide with supports from related ministries and parent-teacher associations and has grown into a single largest youth prevention project in Japan.
UNAIDS Collaborating Centre for Socio-epidemiological HIV Research (Department of Global Health and Socio-epidemiology, Kyoto University School of Public Health).
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Ono-Kihara
D000293:Adolescent; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group