How can education adress HIV and AIDS issues?: a briefing paper for planners and senior management
Authors: F. Caillods; M.J. Kelly; B. Tournier
Publisher: International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2008
This briefing paper is addressed to planners and senior management in ministries of education. It discusses four major challenges in a world with AIDS:
- delivering effective prevention education
- increasing access to schools
- maintaining quality of education
- integrating the planners’ agenda
Each chapter outlines the issues and summarises what a ministry of education can do and what planners need to do. Specific areas addressed include stigma and discrimination, gender equality and staff support. Messages that ministers should remember and urgently act upon are also presented. These include:
- quality education works and acts as a social vaccine. It protects children and young people against HIV infection. It also develops values, attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary for dealing positively with HIV
- teachers are the most valuable resource in the education sector. Make them even more valuable as agents of positive change in a world with HIV and AIDS through providing training that will enable them to communicate successfully and effectively with their students on HIV and AIDS
- provide leadership against stigma and discrimination and encourage influential persons in society to take a strong stance
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