Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans Qualitative Findings from an Intervention Trial in Rural Tanzania

Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans evaluates an adolescent sexual health program that was implemented in sixty-two primary schools and eighteen health facilities in Tanzania, scrutinizing its teacher-led curriculum, peer education, youth-friendly health services, youth condom distribution, and community-wide activities. This book also provides in-depth case studies examining the motivations and strategies of extraordinary young people who tried to abstain, reduce their number of partners, select low-risk partners, be faithful, and/or use condoms. It concludes with detailed recommendations for school and health facility programs and a review of promising complementary interventions for out-of-school youth, women, men, couples, and parents. Book jacket.

Mary Louisa Plummer was the social science coordinator for the MEMA kwa Vijana trial. Currently she is an independent consultant based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.