Education including life skills-based education has a positive role to play in contexts where messages have been accurate, HIV education coverage in schools has been high, and implementation has been sustained and to scale. At best however – and importantly – school-based HIV education is just one component of what UNAIDS calls combination HIV prevention, in which a range of actions provide a comprehensive mix of approaches. HIV education remains work in progress. What is required is a better set of indicators to measure progress which can be easily put into operation by Ministries of Education. Recommendations are made to this effect.

Centre de Ressources sur la Santé et L'Éducation