Skills-based health education for HIV prevention provides learners with the knowledge and skills they need to avoid HIV infection and maintain reproductive health.

This UNICEF working paper presents new ideas, innovative approaches, case studies, bibliographies and research results for the purpose of facilitating the rapid exchange of knowledge and perspectives among field officers and to stimulate discussions on gender and HIV/AIDS issues.

This Tool-kit for Action has two components.

This quality checklist (designed through the collaborative efforts of UNICEF regional offices) can help an individual to select and/or adapt existing materials for skills-based health education (including life skills).

This resource guide is designed to help policy makers and practitioners to access resources and to build on best practices in order to combat HIV and AIDS in the education sector.