Section 4 - STI/HIV Prevention and Treatment:
Priority for Young Adults

Learning Objectives

By the time you complete this section, you will be able to:

• Name the most common curable and incurable STIs.
  
  
• Cite the ways that HIV can be transmitted.
  
  
• Name at least three of the critical needs of young people orphaned because of HIV.
  
  
• Identify at least four main counseling messages for preventing STIs among youth.
  
  
• Identify at what point in the voluntary counseling and testing process a person typically decides to have the HIV test.

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