Minimum standards for education in emergencies, chronic crisis and early reconstruction
Wars and natural disasters deny generations the knowledge and opportunities that an education can provide.
Wars and natural disasters deny generations the knowledge and opportunities that an education can provide.
Today HIV/AIDS is one of the biggest challenges facing the world. The risk of getting the virus is particularly high for young injecting drug users, who are isolated, marginalized and often lack access to even basic prevention services.
The School AIDS Education Program (SAEP) is a key intervention that aims at providing preventive education to young people in schools and is a critical component of the preventive intervention for the general community as no other institutional system reaches as many children as the school system
This report contains information on ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases through education in the greater Mekong sub region.
Drawing on an overview of research conducted for WHO's Department of HIV/AIDS, this paper outlines some of the issues that need to be addressed when working on HIV/AIDS prevention with young people.
Of the estimated 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) at the end of 2002, 19.2 million-or about 45 percent-were women (UNAIDS and World Health Organization [WHO], 2002).