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#IAS 2017 | @IAS_conference Youth. Power Action funded and supported a special AIDS supplement entitled: Achieving 902: Young People, HIV Testing Services and Linkage to Treatment Guest Editors: • Sten H. Vermund, MD, Ph. D • Donna R. Mc. Carraher, Ph. D, MPH • B. Ryan Phelps, MD, MPH, FAAP Open Access online version: http: //journals. lww. com/aidsonline/toc/2017/07013 Funding: U. S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Youth. Power Action, Contract number AID-OAA-TO-15 -00003/AID-OAA-I-15 -00009

#IAS 2017 | @IAS_conference Overview Challenges: • Adolescents and youth (AY) ages 15 -24 have low rates of HIV diagnosis and treatment initiation • Approximately 1/3 of all new infections worldwide occur in AY 15– 24 years old • HIV mortality is increasing among AY, while mortality for other age groups is declining • Despite this, few interventions have been tailored to and tested among AY Goal of this journal supplement: • To provide new evidence and insight to enable funders, program planners, researchers and policy makers to improve or develop HIV programs, policies and approaches for adolescents and youth

#IAS 2017 | @IAS_conference Research summary • • • Youth must be involved in the design of programs and research that aim to meet their needs (Denison et al. ). HIV+ youth participated in the Project SOAR (Supporting Operational AIDS Research) meeting and influenced the development of an implementation science agenda. HIV self-testing (Indravudh et al. ) is acceptable to young people in Malawi and Zimbabwe, especially if kits were provided for free or at low-cost and provided by lay community distributors. Voluntary Male Circumcision Services (VMMC) (Kaufman et al. ) in South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe represent a missed opportunity for counseling adolescents and young men on HIV prevention and care. Delivering a community-level door-to-door combination HIV prevention package (Shanaube et al. ) is acceptable to adolescents and feasible in Zambia. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) interventions (Wagner et al. ) in Kenya resulted in changes in knowledge of HIV transmission, HIV prevention, and intention to re-test for HIV. CQI interventions may improve adolescentfriendly HIV testing services.

#IAS 2017 | @IAS_conference Research summary • • Youth value the support of caregivers and health care workers (Wilson et al. ) in deciding to seek HIV testing and linking to care in Kenya. Strengthening HCW and caregiver capacities to support adolescents while respecting autonomy may facilitate attaining ’ 90 -90’ targets for young people. Improving services for adolescents at health centers and establishing linkages between schools and health centers (Ruria et al. ) in Kenya are feasible to address the needs of adolescents and support timely linkage to care and retention. In the U. S. , Centers for Disease Control-funded non-healthcare facilities provide HIV tests to adolescent MSM (Marano et al. ). A greater proportion of adolescent MSM were newly diagnosed in non-healthcare facilities compared to total tested in those facilities, and linkage to care was lower for black and Latino adolescents. The Metropolitan Atlanta Community Adolescent Rapid Testing Initiative (MACARTI) (Camacho-Gonzalez et al. ) combined venue-based testing, motivational interviewing, and case management to improve linkage to care and timing to linkage to care.

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