Modeling the impact of HIV on education systems: how to use the EdSIDA model for education-HIV forecasting

The purpose of this document is two-fold. It serves as a practical training manual for World Bank staff, Ministry of Education planners and other stakeholders who wish to implement the EdSIDA model in a particular country to assist with educational planning in the face of HIV. It also serves as an introduction to the epidemiology of HIV, the impact it can have on the education sector, its scale and how this can be captured empirically by the EdSIDA model.