Every week, more than 5000 adolescent girls and young women acquire HIV (UNAIDS, 2015). About one-seventh of all new HIV infections occur during adolescence (WHO, 2013). In 2012, approximately two-thirds of new HIV infections occurred among female adolescent ages 15–19 years (UNICEF, 2013). Approximately, four million young people aged 14 to 24 years are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and 29% of them are adolescents aged 15–19 years (Bekker, Johnson, Wallace, & Hosek, 2015). Worldwide, there are more than one billion people who are youths and most of them live in developing countries (World Health Organisation, 2011). They also lack access to health care and education and they suffer from physical and psychological abuse, unintended pregnancies, poverty, stigmatization and gender-based violence (UNAIDS, 2014). Street children, adolescent sex workers, orphans, child soldiers and other such groups are generally, but not always, out of school (Burns & Ruland, 2004 Marfatia, 2010). Many out-of-school youth come from displaced families and some from intact families that either cannot or choose not to send their children to school. Out-of-school youths hawk on the street, engage in menial jobs in factories, stay at home for housework or child care or are unemployed.
They may have dropped out of school, or never started school, may have jobs or not, may be single or married, and they may even be girls who have been forced to quit school because they need to work in the home, are pregnant or have babies (Burns & Ruland, 2004). The Out-of-school youths are a diverse group.
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