Use individual, group, and community-level interventions to provide education, support, and training that can affect social norms about HIV and other STIs

Provide information about contraception and protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in classroom or community settings

Provide tailored health information and computer-mediated decision making, behavior change, and emotional support via interactive programs

Provide condoms free of charge or at a reduced cost in community and school-based settings

Elicit information about sex or needle-sharing partners from STI-positive patients, then notify partners of risk, testing, and services; also called contact tracing, or partner counseling and referral services

Provide pregnant or parenting teens with services based upon their needs (e.g., counseling, connections to health care or social services, academic support, etc.) in school or community settings

Increase access to LARCs through cost reduction, comprehensive birth control counseling, provider training, efforts to ensure availability at local clinics, etc.

Use TV, radio, internet, and print media to disseminate information about safe sex behaviors

Reduce child and adolescent access to sexual content in television, movies, music, and videogames via rating systems, parental advisories, parental guidelines, etc.

Support initiatives that combine classroom instruction, individual counseling, and broad community efforts to reduce pregnancy and STIs among youth