As of today, young people aged 11 - 24 years report about 37% of the total population in Kyrgyzstan. Poor social and economic situation in the country has made its young people especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. The official number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Kyrgyzstan by September 2007 was 1826, but UNAIDS estimates the real number to be at least 5-10 times higher. It is quite alarming that 52% of the registered HIV-infected are youth at the age of 15 - 29 years.
High-risk behaviour among youth aged 15-24 is characterized by an increase in STI infections such as gonorrhea (642 cases) and syphilis (640 cases); early unwanted pregnancies of girls under 18 years old (800 births per year) and about the same number of registered abortions (some 25% from repeated pregnancies). The need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education and youth friendly services has been acute.
Unfortunately, teenagers remain a vulnerable group, and the issue of their health maintenance and protection still has seen no settlement. Thus, healthcare reforms resulted in abolishment of services providing help to teenagers and specialized gynaecological aid to girls.
Elimination of adolescent's doctors caused the adolescents to be equated with common adult patients, i.e. family district doctor became a doctor to treat an adolescent, and thus young people were deprived of the right for a specific medical aid and advice.