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Breaking the Silence is a quarterly advocacy sheet that offers tools for preventing HIV/AIDS in adolescents and youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a joint publication of the Child and Adolescent Health and HIV/AIDS/STI Units.

Issues currently available online:

Breaking the Silence: April 2005
Quarterly advocacy sheet for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean Adolescents and Youth. This issue gives guidelines for addressing the multiple needs of adolescents and youth in regards to HIV/AIDS. 
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Breaking the Silence: January 2005
Quarterly advocacy sheet for the prevenion of HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and youth. This month's issue features data on the incidence of HIV in young people and steps on how to adopt the choices and changes model described in the new PAHO publication Youth: Choices and Change. 
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Breaking the Silence: October 2004
Advocacy sheet for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and youth. This issue is dedicated to strong families for better adolescent health. 
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Breaking the Silence: July 2004
Advocacy sheet preventing HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and youth. This issue discusses the need for quality adolescent health services. 
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Breaking the Silence: April 2004
Advocacy sheet offering tools for preventing the spread of HIV among youth in the Americas. This issue focuses on the WHO/UNAIDS 3X5 Initiative. 
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Breaking the Silence Advocacy Sheet: December 2003
This issue is dedicated to the social protection of adolescents and youth within health sector reform. 
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Breaking the Silence, August 2003
Advocacy sheet on preventing HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and youth. This month's issue covers the UN Millennium Development Goals and adolescent health. 
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Breaking the Silence: Issue No. 2, April 2003
Advocacy sheet on preventing HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and youth. Issue 2 deals with adolescent sexuality and protection. 
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Breaking the Silence: Issue No. 1, December 2002
Advocacy sheet on preventing HIV/AIDS in Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and youth. Issue 1 introduces the new PAHO/SIDA/NORAD Projects in youth AIDS prevention. 
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