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- New survey on HIV education: Progression, regression or stagnation?
- There is room for optimism in the overall progress of the global education sector’s response to HIV, says a new in-depth study of 39 countries around the world. However, a worrying degree of stagnation in some areas still exists and much more needs to be done if the sector is to fulfil its critical role in helping to intensify HIV prevention.
- UNESCO booklet promotes improved links between gender, HIV and education
- A “Gender Equality, HIV and Education” booklet by UNESCO stresses that issues of gender equality, HIV and education are interrelated and cannot be tackled in isolation.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon launches “Education First” to send every child to school
- The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon launched a new initiative “Education First” to ensure that every child goes to school, receives quality education and imbibes values of global citizenship.
- Landmark report on HIV among Zambia’s young people highlights challenges and charts the way forward
- For Zambia’s young people the AIDS response has seen a number of important successes, with a significant 25% decline in HIV incidence over the last decade. However, according to a groundbreaking new report, the AIDS epidemic continues to have a huge effect on the country’s youth, especially young women, and much more needs to be done to achieve an HIV-free generation.
- UNESCO Youth Forum: Young people driving the HIV prevention revolution
- How can the world’s youth maximize their potential as dynamic agents of social, political and economic change to improve their lives, health and societies? The 7th UNESCO Youth Forum, held in Paris from 17 - 20 October, brought together nearly 250 youth delegates from 193 Member States and hundreds of civil society observers to try to find answers to this key question.
- Adapting to today’s epidemic: UNESCO launches its new AIDS Strategy
- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently launched a new AIDS strategy intended to meet the needs of the changing face of the AIDS epidemic.
- Building knowledge, skills and hope in southern Africa’s schools
- Students and teachers in four southern African countries are benefiting from an ambitious HIV programme, spearheaded by UNESCO, designed to strengthen the education sector’s AIDS response in Angola, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland.
- NewGen Asia: Helping young leaders find their voice
- Across the Asia and Pacific region a significant number of all new HIV infections are among young key populations including sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people and young people who inject drugs. An initiative called NewGen Asia aims to develop the capacity of young people from key populations to lead the AIDS response.
- It’s possible: Making the most of linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV responses
- Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV is of critical importance. On 8 June, during a side event at this week’s High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York, the question of how exactly such linkages can be strengthened was explored in depth.
- UNESCO: Sexuality education for young people highly cost-effective
- Sexuality education programmes can be highly cost-effective, especially when compulsory, adapted from existing models and integrated into the mainstream school curriculum. This is the major conclusion emerging from a seminal study released by UNESCO in New York.
- New monitoring centre helps tackle HIV in prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean
- The newly established Monitoring Centre for HIV and Prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to become a key regional repository for collecting and analysing data on HIV in prison settings.
- “Right for you!” Satellite puts young people centre stage at Vienna
- The thoughts and voices of young people took centre stage at the Vienna AIDS Conference yesterday as an innovative satellite session explored how they can best protect themselves from HIV. The session was organized by UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO. It provided an interactive platform for youth from around the world to discuss sexual and reproductive health services and provision of comprehensive information including sexuality education, condom use and HIV counselling and testing.
- Helping Vietnamese youth protect themselves against HIV
- Pham Xuan Tung talks eagerly and takes notes for his group during a biology lesson on HIV transmission and the replication of the virus in blood cells. This new type of highly interactive class is something Tung, a student at Hoang Quoc Viet upper secondary school in Dong Trieu District, Quang Ninh Province, clearly enjoys.
- HIV prevention among most-at-risk young people: How to get the message across
- It is critical that young people most at risk of HIV infection are better informed and equipped with skills to protect themselves. This was a key argument emerging from an international symposium convened by the UNAIDS Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Education to address the education sector’s response to the challenge of HIV among this key population.
- Sexuality education an imperative for children and young people in a world affected by AIDS
- In many parts of the world, a combination of social taboos, unavailability of sound information, lack of resources and infrastructure leave many young people vulnerable to coercion, abuse, exploitation, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Sexuality education can play a key role in improving knowledge and reducing sexual risk behaviours among young people.
- Education sector: Getting to grips with an HIV monitoring and evaluation framework
- The education sector plays a critical role in national responses to AIDS. However, this contribution is often poorly appreciated and understood. To help address this situation, a host of international experts recently met in London to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for education sector responses to HIV.
- Injecting drug users take central role in anti-stigma film
- The lives of injecting drug users and the HIV-related stigma and discrimination they face was one focus of the IX International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific as the film Suee (Needle) was launched by Response Beyond Borders, the Asian consortium on drug use HIV, AIDS and poverty.
- More needs to be done to help young people most at risk of HIV infection
- In general, HIV prevention services in the Asia region are currently not reaching young people who are most at risk of infection. In order to address this, the Asia Pacific Regional UN Coordination Group on Most at Risk Young People is hosting a symposium (Aug 10) at the IX International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.
- UNAIDS Cosponsors out in force for 9th ICAAP
- The 10 UNAIDS Cosponsors are presenting a strong showing as thousands of delegates converge in Bali, Indonesia, to share ideas, knowledge, best practices, lessons learned and research findings at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP).
- New publication champions a strategic approach to HIV and education
- Education can play a critical role in the global challenge to HIV simply by “doing more of what it is doing already and doing it better,” and ensuring that all children have access to good quality learning. This is a key conclusion emerging from a new publication by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education which explores the sector’s response to the epidemic.