Healthy students, promising futures: state and local action steps and practices to improve school-based health
This toolkit offers resources and suggest practical steps to take and share to better connect health and education services.
This toolkit offers resources and suggest practical steps to take and share to better connect health and education services.
School feeding has led to measurable gains in education and health outcomes, as evidenced widely in the literature. There are a few evaluations showing little or no improvement in education and health outcomes. This may be less widely reported or highlighted.
This circular focuses on the importance of physical activity and healthy eating. It is acknowledged that mental and psychological well-being are a key part of healthy lifestyles. Schools support these through their work on anti-bullying and the SPHE curriculum.
Childhood obesity undermines the physical, social and psychological well-being of children and is a known risk factor for adult obesity and noncommunicable diseases. There is an urgent need to act now to improve the health of this generation and the next.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) among youths represent an important public health challenge in developing countries. The incidence of HIV peaked in the 1990’s and saw a decline from 2005. What was done to prompt the decline?
This document examines the GIPA pilot initiatives in selected African countries, which includes the United Nations Volunteer Programmes (UNV) pilot project to support people living with HIV/AIDS.
This document reports an effort to systematically investigate the extent to which Compassion International assisted children are affected by HIV/AIDS.
The briefing paper provides an analysis of the negotiations that took place at the Special Session of the United Nations Assembly to review the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
Meeting Minutes of the 16th Asian Parliamentarians’ Meeting on Population and Development “Review of Population and Development in Asia and Parliamentarians’ Initiatives"
This document describes the University of Cape Town Policy on HIV infection and AIDS. It includes issues of confidentiality, employment contracts, AIDS education, staff and student interactions, benefits, leadership, and resources.