HIV and Young People

Gary Jones has spent most of his career in the developing world. For more than thirty years, in settings ranging from long-term stability to humanitarian crisis he has worked in the private sector, academia, with not-for-profit organizations and United Nations agencies, and often in some of the most challenging environments in the world. From direct experience mostly in southern and eastern Africa, he has witnessed first-hand the toll exacted by HIV, especially amongst key populations, and increasingly so among young people in the urban slum environment. As demonstrated by a life-time of activism, Gary has long been an advocate for the principle of a people-centred and multi-dimensional approach to HIV as the only way to bring meaningful and sustainable change in ending AIDS. It is this belief in the power of collective resilience that draws him to the study of dignity and humiliation. Gary is married with three children and currently lives in Australia.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Vulnerability and Risk – health and well being in the slum.- 3. HIV as an urban epidemic.- 4. Young people –vulnerability, risk and HIV in the urban slum.- 5. Migration, young people and vulnerability in the urban slum.- 6. Conclusion – strengthening the evidence.