Project A-STHREE: A Validation Workshop to Prepare for Results Restitution.

Adolescents living on the street constitute a population particularly exposed to violence, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), while facing numerous barriers limiting their access to health services. It is within this context that the A-STHreet – CIPHER 039 project was implemented, aiming to better understand the accessibility and utilization of HIV and other STI screening services by adolescents aged 10 to 19 living on the street in Côte d’Ivoire.

After several months of work conducted in three health districts of Abidjan, the PAC-CI Program organized a results validation workshop on April 20, 2026. This activity, coordinated by Dr. Touré Frank, a researcher at the PAC-CI Program, represents a major step before the official ceremony for the presentation of the results scheduled in the coming weeks.

The workshop brought together representatives from national programs, technical partners, non-governmental organizations, community stakeholders, as well as representatives of adolescents living on the street and young people living with HIV.

The objective was to share the main results of the project, discuss their implications, and gather recommendations to strengthen existing policies and interventions.

To foster participatory reflection, participants were divided into working groups around several themes: accessibility to HIV and other STI screening services, utilization of these services by adolescents living on the street, risk behaviors and prevention, and the integration of these adolescents into public health policies.

Through this approach, the A-STHreet project reaffirms its ambition: to produce useful scientific data, contribute to strengthening HIV and other STI prevention strategies, and improve access to health services for the most vulnerable adolescent populations.