Towards a Comprehensive Education Sector Response to HIV and AIDS

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Towards a Comprehensive Education Sector Response
to HIV and AIDS

• UNESCO
• EFA Working Group
• 20 July 2006

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Comprehensive Response to HIV and AIDS - Five
essential components

• Quality education (including crosscutting
  principles)
• Content, curriculum and learning materials
• Educator training and support
• Policy, management and systems
• Approaches and illustrative entry points

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Five Essential Components Quality education
(including crosscutting principles)

• Rights-based
• Gender responsive
• Culturally sensitive
• Age specific
• Scientifically accurate

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Five Essential Components Content, curriculum
and learning materials

• Specifically adapted and appropriate for various
  levels primary/secondary/tertiary, vocational,
  formal and nonformal
• Focused and tailored to various groups
• Develops and sustains prevention knowledge,
  attitudes, and behaviours covering sexual
  transmission, drug use including injecting, and
  other risk factors
• Addresses stigma, discrimination, disparity
• Includes care, treatment and support

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Five Essential Components Educator training
and support

• Teacher education, pre- and in-service, including
  modern and interactive methods
• Nonformal educators including youth leaders,
  religious leaders, traditional healers
• Support groups mentoring, supervision, positive
  teachers, etc
• School and community linkages
• Educational support materials

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Five Essential Components Policy, management
and systems

• Situation analysis/needs assessment
• Workplace policies
• Planning for human capacity, impact assessment
  and projection models
• Strategic partnerships, including coordination,
  advocacy and resource mobilisation
• Monitoring, evaluation and assessing outcomes

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Five Essential Components Approaches and
illustrative entry points

• School health
• Life skills
• Peer education
• Counselling and referral
• Communications and media
• Teacher education

• Community-based learning and outreach
• School feeding
• Adult education and literacy
• Greater involvement of people living with HIV and
  AIDS (GIPA)

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Comprehensive Education Sector Responses

• All of these components need to be in place and
  working well to ensure optimal success in the
  response to the epidemic
• Coverage, intensity, quality, inclusiveness,
  impact and sustainability of each of these
  components are also key

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Responses Tailored to Epidemic Type

• Low level prevention education in context of
  Universal Access--emphasis on harmful effects of
  stigma and discrimination, respect for human
  rights, gender dimensions, and support for people
  living with HIV AIDS
• Concentrated same as above plus education
  tailored to needs of learners who are
  particularly vulnerable to HIV including women
  and girls
• Generalised all of the above plus expansion of
  treatment education including support for
  adherence

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Comprehensive Education Sector Responses

• Education sector must begin to fulfill its
  potential as lead partner in national response to
  HIV and AIDS
• No recipe, no one size fits all
• EDUCAIDS provides a framework to set the bar
  toward which we should and can work to support
  national responses

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