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Strengthening Life Skills for Positive Youth Health Behaviour: An Overview and Discussion Paper

1 Sep 2009

Issues: Youth

Resource Type: Publication

Life skills education, using the peer-to-peer approach, can effectively promote youth health and protect young people from HIV, drugs, sexual abuse and other threats.

Building Capacity for Community-based Treatment and Continuing Care of Young Drug Users in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An overview and discussion paper

1 Apr 2009

Issues: Youth

Resource Type: Publication

This discussion paper provides an overview of the project “Building Capacity for Community-based Treatment and Continuing Care of Young Drug Users in the Greater Mekong Subregion”, which was implemented over the period 2002-2008 in Yunnan Province, China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Thailan

Pacific Perspectives on the commercial sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children and youth

1 Apr 2009

Issues: Youth

Resource Type: Publication

This publication comprises three papers commissioned by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

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