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Sexuality and Young People

Advocates for Youth

This organisation works both in the United States and in developing countries mainly focused on adolescent reproductive and sexual health. This site has many resources for researchers and a “Sex Ed Center” for parents. Refer to their ‘Resources & Tools’ section to know more about STIs, HIV, and unintended pregnancy.

AMAZE

This site publishes “medically accurate, age-appropriate, affirming, and honest sex education” video content for young people on a variety of sexuality-related topics. The website also has toolkits, lesson plans and educational resources for parents and educators. AMAZE also strives to assist adults—parents, guardians, educators and health care providers to communicate effectively and honestly about sex and sexuality with the children and adolescents in their lives.

Brook

Brook is a UK-based organisation which provides free and confidential sexual health advice and services specifically for young people under 25. The services include free and confidential sexual health information, pregnancy testing, advice, counselling, treatment for sexually transmitted infection and many more. The “Help and Advice” section on the website provides category wise information for sexual health related issues.

Haiyya’s Health Over Stigma

Health Over Sigma is a campaign from Haiyya, a Delhi-based non-profit, that seeks to dismantle “stigma that unmarried women face when accessing sexual and reproductive health services.” The campaign is shifting the onus from unmarried women onto doctors and SRH service providers and holding them accountable to provide non-judgemental and stigma-free service.

I Wanna Know

Iwannaknow.org is a site of the American Sexual Health Association (ASHA). It discusses teen sexual health and sexually transmitted infections. The US-based website has rights-based information for teens and young adults on various topics such as sexual health, healthy relationships, “LGBTQ”, STDs, pregnancy and parenthood.

KidsHealth

Kids Health provides families “the tools and confidence to make the best health choices” by providing doctor reviewed advice on various physical, emotional and behavioural topics. The website has separate sections for parents, kids, teens and educators along with category-wise information in terms of articles, slideshows, videos and health tools.

Know Your Body Know Your Rights (KYR KYR) – The YP Foundation

The Know Your Body Know Your Rights (KYBKYR) programme works to empower adolescents and youth across by delivering stigma-free and rights-affirming information on issues of health, sexuality and human rights. The programme builds young people and adolescents’ capacity to advocate for their health and well-being at the personal, community, state and national levels.

Pravah
Pravah was seeded in 1993, with the intent to create safe spaces for adolescents and youth to form their own opinions, worldview, and bring about change within themselves and the society around them. They work with young people from diverse backgrounds to build their agency and enable them to act, such that they become self-aware, deeply empathetic, socially responsible leaders.

Scarleteen: Sex Ed for the Real World

A site with in-depth sexuality education resources for teens, including basic introductory information about changing bodies, STDs, relationship issues, body image and more. The website also provides online forums for teens to ask questions and has four free, direct support services to get one-on-one help and information”.

Sex Chat series with Papa and Pappu

A fictional digital series that delivers information across different themes related to sex and sexuality. The series features a 7-year-old boy named Pappu who out of curiosity asks coming-of-age questions around sexuality to his father. His father attempts to answer them in a simple and friendly way and breaks down the concepts to the level of a 7-year old.