The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) conducted a review and program scan of peer-reviewed and grey literature on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents and youth in urban areas to explore the behavioral drivers, barriers and contextual factors and identify SBCC interventions targeting the sexual health of urban youth. The findings highlight promising practices and synthesize lessons learned, and offer insight into the elements that may yield more positive results for behavior change among urban youth. This an infographic tthat illustrates the evidence review. To access the searchable table showing the peer-reviewed and grey literature articles from the review, as well as links to the top ten articles from the review, the Executive Summary of the review and the complete Literature Review, visit http://www.healthcommcapacity.org/sbcc-research-synthesis-urban-youth-sexual-reproductive-health/

1. Improving Reproductive
Health Behaviors amongYouth
Making the Case for Social and Behavior Change Communication
A program in Colombia
that used peer education
and classroom sessions
conducted by trained
teachers led to a 24%
increase in knowledge
and attitudes related to
HIV/AIDS among youth.4
A reproductive health education program for youth
in Kenya showed young women were3.3 times
more likely to adopt secondary abstinence, while
young men were 3.7 times more likely to use
condoms.5
HIV
24%
3.7
3.3
1
Reducing the risk of HIV transmission among adolescents in Zambia: Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of viewing a risk-reduction
media campaign: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X05001345
2
Knowledge of correct condom use and consistency of use among adolescents in four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367135/
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4
HIV prevention in Latin America: reaching youth in Colombia: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0954012021000039789
http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(07)00431-4/abstract
5
Behavior Change Evaluation of a Culturally Consistent Reproductive Health Program for Young Kenyans:
http://psrh.org/pubs/journals/3005804.pdf
Condoms
Abstinence
CHANGING KNOWLEDGE AND
ATTITUDES
PRACTICING PREVENTIVE BEHAVIORS
Zambian youth exposed to an HIV/AIDS and STI prevention media campaign designed by
youth were 1.6 times more likelyto report abstaining from sex and2.38
times more likelyto have ever used a condom.1
PREVENTING HIV/AIDS
77777 xUnmarried youth exposed to
community-based interventions
promoting condom use in
suburban Shanghai, China,
were almost 7 times more
likely to use modern
contraception and about
a third less likely to rely on
the withdrawal method.3
In Burkina Faso, Ghana
and Uganda, young
people who saw a condom
demonstration were
2-5 times as likely to
know how to correctly use
a condom as those who
did not see a
demonstration. 2
2-5times
1/3
LESS
WITHDRA
WALMETHOD
INCREASING KNOWLEDGE IMPROVING CONTRACEPTIVE USE