FYI, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Broyd, Charlotte A A <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:23 AM Subject: [schoolhealth] World AIDS Day 2012 To: schoolhealth <[email protected]>
Today, World AIDS Day is celebrated globally for the 25th time. It was the first global health day and continues to hold great relevance for HIV/AIDS prevention. It is an opportunity to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in high prevalence countries and around the world. In recent years, the education sector has come to play an increasingly important role in preventing HIV. Children of school-age have the lowest HIV infection rates of any population sector. Even in the worst affected countries, the vast majority of schoolchildren are not infected. For these children, there is a window of hope, a chance to live a life free from AIDS, if they can acquire knowledge, skills, and values that will help protect them as they grow up. The Education Sector also plays an important ‘internal’ role in providing access to care, treatment and support for teachers and staff, a group that in many countries represents more than 60% of the public sector workforce. Read more about providing a social vaccine through HIV Education http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/pages/HIVEducation.aspx HIV and Education Related Resources Documentaries · Window of Hope - an award-winning documentary, following three teachers as they impart their knowledge of HIV to students and equip them with the life skills required to avoid infection. · Courage and Hope - shares the remarkable story of teachers living positively with HIV from across sub-Saharan Africa. Publications · Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV · Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes · Economic Impact of HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy on Education Supply in High Prevalence Regions · Estimating the impact of HIV&AIDS on the supply of basic education · Good Policy and Practice in HIV & AIDS and Education · Keeping Adolescent Orphans in School to Prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Access MORE documents via the HIV Document Downloads of the Schools & Health site. Access information on country specific HIV programmes via the HIV Country Programmes page. If there are other useful resources on HIV Education not currently on the site and you feel they should be, please share with school health practitioners & interest groups by posting to [email protected]. Best wishes, Charlotte Charlotte Broyd Website and Communications Assistant Partnership for Child Development Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Imperial College London Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 2754 | Skype: charleybroyd www.schoolsandhealth.org | www.hgsf-global.org | twitter.com/schoolshealth Join the SHN debate - Sign up to [email protected] _______________________________________________ schoolhealth mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/schoolhealth _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
