<
 
 
 
 
×
>
You are viewing an archived web page, collected at the request of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) using Archive-It. This page was captured on 22:07:22 Oct 26, 2016, and is part of the UNESCO collection. The information on this web page may be out of date. See All versions of this archived page.
Loading media information hide
UNESCO.ORG The Organization Education Natural Sciences Social Sciences Culture Communication & Information
  Education for All by 2015
.::
Education Today Newsletter
Education for All Home October 2005 – January 2006
PREVIOUS ISSUES
EDITO
Learning World
LEARNING WORLD
 
Focus
FOCUS
   
Education for All
Education for All by 2015
 
Briefs
BRIEFS  
Bookshelf Agenda
Download the Newsletter
English

 

  HIV and AIDS Education

 

HIV-small.jpg

Today, nearly forty million people are living with HIV. Experts agree that education could help limit the further spread of the pandemic.Yet many countries are slow to put in place a coherent HIV and AIDS prevention education plan. FOCUS, a four-page dossier, reports.  

 

Edito - In the past five years there has been a sea of change in the global response to HIV and AIDS. Today there is more funding available and more stakeholders involved than ever before to fight the pandemic. According to UNAIDS, global funding has increased from roughly $2.1 billion in 2001 to $6.1 billion in 2004.

As a former university president and US Congressman, I have seen first-hand how devastating HIV and AIDS can be. But I have also seen what education can do to reduce the impact of the disease. We need to teach children and young adults about how HIV is transmitted and prevented, and how to care for and support those infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

Yet messages about changing behaviour to reduce the risk of getting HIV and about accepting those living with the virus are not reaching everyone, as described in the dossier of this issue. Indeed, coverage of HIV and AIDS prevention education is extremely uneven. Despite progress, 3.1 million people worldwide died from AIDS-related disease last year.

We know that the success or failure of a global response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic rests on the ability of national governments to develop a comprehensive, effective response in the area of HIV and AIDS prevention education and on the capacity of local stakeholders to convey inclusive and sensitive messages to everyone.

I’m proud of UNESCO’s leading role in EDUCAIDS, the Global Initiative on HIV and AIDS. We assist countries in finding the best ways to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS through education and to protect the core functions of education systems that are constantly being threatened by the epidemic’s advance.

EDUCAIDS is one of UNESCO’s three new initiatives (which also tackle the issues of teacher training and literacy). We believe that by intensifying efforts in these areas we will considerably accelerate progress towards Education for All by 2015.

Peter Smith
Assistant Director-General for Education
 
 

 
:: 2006
 

EDUCATING FOR TOMORROW WORLD
February - May 2006
:: 2005
 

WANTED! TEACHERS
January - March 2005
:: 2004
 

SCIENCE EDUCATION IN DANGER?
October - December 2004
THE PRICE OF SCHOOL FEES
July - September 2004
EDUCATING RURAL PEOPLE
April - June 2004
EDUCATION MINISTERS SPEAK OUT
January - March 2004
:: 2003
 

NEW TECHNOLOGIES: MIRAGE OR MIRACLE?
October - December 2003
THE MOTHER-TONGUE DILEMMA
July - September 2003
EDUCATION: WHO PAYS?
April - June 2003
EDUCATING TEENAGERS
January - March 2003
:: 2002
 

HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SALE
October - December 2002

LITERACY? YES. BUT WHEN?
July - September 2002

EDUCATION FOR WAR OR FOR PEACE?
April - June 2002

guest (Read)
About UNESCOContact the WEBMASTER    ID: 44217