The urgency of now: sustaining health security and ending AIDS by 2030 — 38th African Union (AU) Summit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 15–16, 2025

This document is designed as a summary and visual aid of the steps and recommendations for strengthening sustainable youth-led HIV responses included in Youth Next Level: guidance to strengthen sustainable youth-led HIV responses. For more details on each of the steps outlined in this document, it is recommended to consult the above-mentioned document. See also: Definitions

A participatory process was convened that engaged over 100 young people in all regions to support the development of the definition. A survey, along with consultations in English, Russian and Spanish, ensured young people in all their diversity had the opportunity to feed into the process and have their say on what youth-led responses are. It was also identified in the process that for a definition of “youth-led responses” to be effective, there would need to be a definition of “youth-led organizations”, which was developed concurrently. See also: Youth Next Level: main guidance | Steps for country rollout