YouthAIDS, an education and prevention program of PSI, uses media, pop culture, music, theatre and sport to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and reach 600 million young people in more than 60 countries around the world with life-saving messages, products, services and care. Our approach empowers young people to protect themselves against HIV through education and access to prevention products and services such as voluntary counseling and testing. In 2008 alone, YouthAIDS programs helped protect nearly 150,000 people from HIV.
- - Every fifteen seconds, another person age 15-24 becomes infected with HIV.
- - An estimated 33 million people currently live with HIV.
- - AIDS kills one child every minute.
