The effect of HIV/AIDS on educational attainment
Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys for eleven countries in sub-Saharan Africa,the authorestimates the effect of local HIV prevalence on individual human capital investment.
Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys for eleven countries in sub-Saharan Africa,the authorestimates the effect of local HIV prevalence on individual human capital investment.
The education sector is crucial to any national response to the world epidemic of HIV and AIDS. The school age years, about 5 to15 years, make up the cross section of any population with the lowest prevalence of HIV infection. This is the "Window of Hope".
The study described here explores, for three regions with generalized HIV and AIDS epidemics, the impact of the epidemic on teacher supply now and up to 2015, the target date for the achievement of education for all.
Le Ministère de l'Education Nationale a pour mandat d'assurer la prévention du SIDA en milieu scolaire par l'introduction de l'enseignement du SIDA dans le curriculum et la lutte contre le SIDA dans la mise en oeuvre des activités péri et para-scolaires.La stratégie adoptéeins
Despite the growing popularity of participatory peer education as an HIV-prevention strategy worldwide, our understandings of the processes underlying its impact on sexual norms are still in their infancy.
The report begins by explaining the way peer education has been promoted and supported through the Higher Education HIV/AIDS (HEAIDS) programme in South Africa.
This policy and guidelines document on HIV/AIDS is a response to a Government of Uganda (GOU) initiative which requires that each sector should develop a sector specific policy that is consistent with and responds to the National Overarching Policy on HIV/AIDS and the National Strategic Plan.This
In 2004, the University of Pretoria was contracted by the United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) to conduct research in Limpopo, South Africa, examining issues related to safety and threats for learners at the foundational (Grade R-3), in
In 2004, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) decided to develop an HIV and AIDS policy for the whole education sector. As a component of the Education sector HIV and AIDS policy, the workplace policy addresses all HIV and AIDS related issues at the education workplaces.
This toolkit aims to help education staff from development cooperation agencies, including both development and humanitarian-oriented multilateral and bilateral agencies as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society organizations, to support the process of mainstreaming