The United States Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa - Office of Sustainable Development (USAID/AFR-SD) and the Mobile Task Team (MTT) are committed to a partnership approach to managing and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS - and to facilitating partnerships at every level of the education sector itself. Demonstaring this commitment, the MTT was co-developed by Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), at the University of Natal, to assist Ministries of Education in sub-Saharan Africa to understand, manage and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on their sectors and systems. MTT activity in each country requesting assistance constitutes a partnership with the Ministry or Department of Education concerned, and with all its associated sectoral stakeholders, including NGOs and CBOs.