Nicole Cheetham is the Director of the International Division of Advocates for Youth. She has 13 years of experience working in public health and oversees Advocates’ international youth reproductive and sexual health programs. Nicole currently supports the implementation of programs in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean focused on youth-led advocacy, life skills education, parent-child communication, and media, in addition to U.S.-based advocacy on international family planning and HIV/AIDS. Nicole holds a Masters of Health Sciences in International Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Access to family planning services is a long-recognized basic human right… but we have a long way to go to ensure everyone has access.
Last week I attended a World AIDS Day Event at the World Bank. Yet despite the fact that in many countries young people are at greatest risk of HIV and there are 3 billion people under 25 worldwide, not one expert mentioned youth.
