This handbook, with inputs from leading experts who have trained hundreds of professionals, provides indispensable tools for strengthening the management and care of adolescents living with HIV.
Clinicians and social workers are provided with step by step guidance on how to work with adolescents and parents and increase their skills-sets to help them engage with and retain adolescents living with HIV in support services. It describes the challenges of working with families and care givers, promotes holistic models of child-centered assessment and practice, communication with families and children, with a focus on naming HIV, promoting adherence to treatment and ongoing conversations and supportive dialogue involving HIV positive adolescents as partners and leaders in their own care.

Designed for optimal learning, the handbook allows to choose written, oral, visual, individual, and group strategies that best suit different learning styles. This handbook is about adolescents and it is for professionals who work with them. It is meant to be a living document that adapts as new information and evidence emerges and it hopes to support professionals to build their confidence, skills and better connections with adolescents living with HIV.