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Young People’s Questions about Sexuality, Drugs and
HIV/AIDS/STI prevention in Kyrgyzstan and their Answers
UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan and the German Development
Agency (GTZ) are pleased to introduce you to a series of eight
Question and Answer booklets
in Russian about issues related to growing up in Kyrgyzstan. The
development of the booklets is part of a process first initiated
by GTZ in 2000 in Tanzania. The success in Tanzania led to the
replication of the process in many other countries of where Kyrgyzstan
is one of them.
Since independence Kyrgyzstan has seen an increase
in acute poverty and an erosion of the social service sectors.This
is affecting
the health of young people, as they have become more and more exposed
to drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and the increasing danger of sexually
transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
At the same time recent
studies in Kyrgyzstan show that most young people lack basic information
on the process of growing up.
In 2002 a UNICEF-funded survey about Knowledge, Attitude and Practice
(KAP) with regard to HIV/AIDS/STIs, reproductive health and drugs
was conducted among 4000 adolescents in five regions of Kyrgyzstan.
The survey revealed that there is an urgent need not only for information,
but also for life skills which enable adolescents to put their
knowledge to use. In knowledge-based questions less than 40% of
the respondents knew the correct answer. At the same time, about
40% of boys and 5 % of girls aged 14-18 indicated already having
had first sexual intercourse.
In response to the situation, a series
of 8 question and answer booklets was developed with support from
UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan and
the German Development Agency (GTZ). The booklets are designed
to equip young people with the necessary knowledge to make healthy
choices for themselves and their peers. Without sufficient knowledge,
adolescents can’t make informed and responsible decisions,
and global experience has shown that informed youth, compared to
their un-informed peers, often choose the healthier option.
The
booklets were developed with background in the collection of 4000
questions submitted by adolescents aged 13 to 20 from all
over Kyrgyzstan, both rural and urban areas. Please be aware, that
NONE of the questions has been invented by adults.
A multi-disciplinary
team of social scientists, medical doctors and other specialists
has facilitated the development of the booklets.
Adolescents were involved at each stage of the production process
(collection of questions, compilation of booklets, illustration
and pre-testing).
With these booklets, we intend to contribute to
the health of the next generation.
Please follow the links below
for a pdf version of the Russian-language booklets:
- I am not a child and
not yet an adult… – Questions
about growing up and their answers
- To become a woman and
a man… – Questions about
virginity and marriage and their answers
- The other sex… – Questions
about relations between boys and girls and their answers
- More
than just friends… – Questions about sexual
relationships and their answers
- Where
do children come from? – Questions
about pregnancy and their answers - temporarily unavailable
- Having
a Child or Not? – what
does it depend on? – Questions
about contraceptives and infertility - temporarily unavailable
- Forbidden fruits are
sweet… -
Questions about smoking, alcohol and drugs and their answers
- For
the young generation to Stay Healthy… - Questions
about HIV/AIDS/STIs and their answers
Even though these booklets were developed with
background in questions from adolescents in Kyrgyzstan we are confident
that other Russian
speaking adolescents in Former Soviet Union will find them interesting
and useful. In addition to the Russian version, the booklets are
being translated into Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Tajik to ensure that non
Russian speaking youth in Kyrgyzstan and in other Central Asian
countries have access to the information as well. The pdf files
of these booklets will later be available here.
Please visit this
page on the GTZ website if you would like
to
have a look at similar booklets developed
in other countries and in other languages such as English and French.
If you represent an organization that would like to support further
printing, reprinting and distribution of the booklets in Russian,
Kyrgyz, Uzbek or Tajik, or if you would like to hear more about
the process of developing the booklets please contact:
Marianne Ohlers
Programme Officer
Young People's Well-being
UNICEF Kyrgyzstan
and/or
Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit
(GTZ) /
German Technical Cooperation
Sector Project: Promotion of Reproductive
Health
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5
65760 Eschborn
Tel: +49 6196 79-0
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