HELPFUL WEB SITES

Act Alive
Advocates for Youth
AIDS Action Council
AIDS Channel
AVERT
BET / RAP-IT-UP
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (University of California/San Francisco; Eng. & Spanish)
Children's AIDS Fund
Cyberisle (Eng. & French)
EDUCAIDS: UNESCO
G.A.A.P.
Global AIDS Alliance
Global Tribe
How Stuff Works
iwannaknow
Just Say Yes
Know HIV/AIDS (Viacom & CBS)
LIFEbeat
Like It Is
Live Positive (for positive youth; Eng. & French)
MTV Think / Sexual Health
My Sistahs
National Pediatric AIDS Network
Planetahead
Scarleteen
Seventeen
Sex, Etc.
Sexuality and U
Staying Alive (in 10 languages; Hottest Site)
STOPAIDS
Teenwire (Planned Parenthood)
The Body: Complete HIV/AIDS
The Youth Coalition
Tough Choices
VH1 / Know HIV/AIDS
Voices of Youth / UNICEF
Who's Positive (for positive youth)
Youth at the United Nations
Youth Policy
Youth Resource (for LGBT youth)
YouthAIDS
YouthCo
YouThink
YouthPeer

Best Condom Demonstrations:

Like It Is (uses cartoons)
Planetahead (uses cartoons)
Sexuality and U (uses cartoons)
Staying Alive (best demonstration; uses cartoons)
Teenwire (uses Flash animation)
Youth Co. (uses Flash animation)

Hottest Sites:

Bet.com/RAP
Cyberisle
Know HIV/AIDS
MTV Think - Sexual Health
Planetahead
Sexuality and U
Staying Alive (Hottest Site Overall)
Tough Choices
VH1 Know HIV/AIDS
Voices of Youth
Youth Co.

Best Homework Research Sites:

Advocates for Youth
The Body: Complete HIV/AIDS (most comprehensive on the net)
BBC (British Broadcasting Corp: series "The AIDS Crisis")
BBC (British Broadcasting Corp: series "The Biology of AIDS")
How Stuff Works (easy explanations)
Know HIV/AIDS
National Pediatric AIDS Network (very clinical explanations)
Teenaids (easy explanations in many languages)
UCSF Center for AIDS (very clinical explanations)

Sites created by Youth 4 Youth:

Cyberisle (from Canada; in English and French)
Planetahead (from Canada; in English and French)
Sex, Etc. (USA)

4 Positive Youth:

Live Positive (Canada)
Who's Positive (USA)

Best HIV cellular images:

AVERT (UK)

En Espanol/Spanish sites:

Advocates for Youth
Ambiente Joven
Just Say Yes
Quierosaber
Staying Alive
Teenaids
Teenwire
The Body: Complete HIV/AIDS
UCSF Center for AIDS
Voices of Youth

Project Notes:

This project began in December 2005 with the help of high school student volunteers (we called them WIGS or Web Info Geeks) in the Anchorage School District. Most of them belong to their RARE-T (Reducing All Risks Among Teens) or Gay-Straight Alliance after-school clubs. One was a student at University of Alaska, Anchorage. We'd like to thank Ashley, Sam, Ana, Matt, Yurij, Maria, Brittany and Michael. YouthSmartz author and content editor: Christian Heppinstall. Web designer: Tom Bucceri.