This is a workshop report on Commonwealth universities and the HIV/AIDS pandemic held in Durban, South Africa.

African education programmes are both susceptible and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

In the Eastern and Southern African Region (ESAR), the AIDS epidemic is beginning to have a serious impact on the education sector, specifically on the demand for, supply of, and the management and quality of education provided at all levels.

The learners' activity book is part of the life skills and HIV/AIDS education: primary school programme.

This document is part of the life skills and HIV/AIDS education: primary school programme designed for grades 1-7. The learner's activity book is to be used as a complement to the themes treated in the teacher's guide.

The document explores potentially controversial AIDS education and communication issues described by medical students. It compares these issues with those reported in the Trinidad and Tobago daily press and discussed in the research literature.

This paper provides background information from the planners and participants involved in the International Consultation on Peer Education and HIV/AIDS that took place in Kingston, Jamaica, 18-21 April 1999.

Zig-Zaids is an educational game which provides information for preadolescents about the transmission, treatment, and prevention of AIDS and STD's, in an entertaining way.

This review examines research on gender as it relates to women's and men's different vulnerabilities to HIV infection and their different abilities to access resources for care and support in order to cope with the impact of the epidemic.

The South African Ministry of Education acknowledges the seriousness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on its citizens.