This document provides an overview of the latest available UNAIDS data on youth and HIV, including new indicators reported for the first time on consent requirements to access services, access to CSE, and youth participation in the HIV response. It also provides an explanation of youth participation through the three-lens approach, engaging youth as beneficiaries, partners and leaders, adapted to the HIV response, as a recommendation for policy-makers, programmers, implementers and other stakeholders to strive for better and greater youth participation, fulfil the commitments in the 2016 Political Declaration, and end AIDS by 2030.
Why this report? -- Who are young people? -- What is youth participation and why is it important? -- Young people as beneficiaries -- Young people as partners -- Young people as leaders -- Investing in youth organizing -- Youth participation in action -- Take-away message -- References.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 20).