This document is an evaluation of the People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs) project designed by Botswana Network of people living with HIV/AIDS, UNICEF and the Ministry of Education to bring change messages to school and in the process making the schools become youth-friendly information centr

The projects in Guatemala and Bolivia aimed to improve the SRH of disadvantaged youth, as well as the capacity for the Member Associations (MAs) to reach and effectively serve them.

This is the year that the world will miss the first, and most critical of all the Millennium Development Goals - gender parity in education by 2005.

Children make up half the population of many African countries, and the proportion is growing. Yet, when it comes to decisions about Africa's problems and its future, they are rarely central to the debate.

The world must take urgent account of the specific impact of AIDS on children, or there will be no chance of meeting Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 6 - to halt and begin to reverse the spread of the disease by 2015.

This report is designed for policy makers and program managers and is essentially an informative advocacy document.

This report, published by UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA, is a call to action to address the triple threat of gender inequality, poverty and HIV/AIDS.

This study was carried out between March and September 2003.

The Global Initiative on Primary Prevention of Substance Abuse (Global Initiative) is jointly executed by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Implementation began in June 1997.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is helping to secure the safety and well-being of orphans and other vulnerable children. WFP's nutritional support to children and their parents brings hope into lives made uncertain by the disease.