2003

This Sourcebook is part of a global effort to accelerate the education sector response to HIV/AIDS. It documents 13 education based HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targeting children and youth from 7 sub-Saharan African countries.

- from About the Sourcebook
"…the increasing role of education sectors is…a recognition that a good education is one of the most effective ways of helping young people to avoid HIV/AIDS. Children of school age have the lowest prevalence of infection, and even in the worst affected countries, the vast majority of schoolchildren are uninfected. For these children, there is a window of hope, a chance of a life free from AIDS if they can acquire the knowledge, skills, and values to help them protect themselves as they grow up. Providing young people with the "social vaccine" of education offers them a real chance of productive life…"

The Sourcebook uses programmes that were selected by national experts. Additionally, the programmes "are benchmarked against criteria that the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) for Education considers to be sound programming practice."

It is sponsored by UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, DFID, USAID, Ireland Aid and the World Bank.

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