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The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education and School Health and UNESCO, as secretariat, are pleased to announce its 2017 Symposium on, “Lessons from implementing HIV and school health initiatives: exploring gaps and opportunities for gender responsive programming in education” from 10 to 11 May 2017 in Lusaka, Zambia. The Symposium presents an opportunity for discourse among the education, health and gender communities on: the evidence and lessons of implementing HIV and health education programmes; efforts towards strengthening interlinkages between education and health sector responses; and, the positioning of approaches that are gender responsive within these efforts - all towards the achievement of the 2030 sustainable development goals and targets.