Transcript Quality Education and HIV/AIDS

Towards a Comprehensive
Education Sector Response to
HIV and AIDS
UNESCO
EFA Working Group
20 July 2006
Comprehensive Response to HIV and AIDS Five essential components
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Quality education (including
crosscutting principles)
Content, curriculum and learning
materials
Educator training and support
Policy, management and systems
Approaches and illustrative entry
points
Five Essential Components –
Quality education (including crosscutting principles)
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Rights-based
Gender responsive
Culturally sensitive
Age specific
Scientifically accurate
Five Essential Components –
Content, curriculum and learning materials
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Specifically adapted and appropriate for various
levels– primary/secondary/tertiary, vocational,
formal and nonformal
Focused and tailored to various groups
Develops and sustains prevention knowledge,
attitudes, and behaviours covering sexual
transmission, drug use including injecting, and
other risk factors
Addresses stigma, discrimination, disparity
Includes care, treatment and support
Five Essential Components –
Educator training and support
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Teacher education, pre- and in-service,
including modern and interactive methods
Nonformal educators including youth
leaders, religious leaders, traditional
healers
Support groups – mentoring, supervision,
positive teachers, etc
School and community linkages
Educational support materials
Five Essential Components –
Policy, management and systems
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Situation analysis/needs assessment
Workplace policies
Planning for human capacity, impact
assessment and projection models
Strategic partnerships, including
coordination, advocacy and resource
mobilisation
Monitoring, evaluation and assessing
outcomes
Five Essential Components –
Approaches and illustrative entry points
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School health
Life skills
Peer education
Counselling and
referral
Communications
and media
Teacher
education
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Communitybased learning
and outreach
School feeding
Adult education
and literacy
Greater
involvement of
people living
with HIV and
AIDS (GIPA)
Comprehensive Education Sector
Responses
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All of these components need to be
in place and working well to ensure
optimal success in the response to
the epidemic
Coverage, intensity, quality,
inclusiveness, impact and
sustainability of each of these
components are also key
Responses Tailored to Epidemic Type
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Low level – prevention education in
context of Universal Access--emphasis on
harmful effects of stigma and
discrimination, respect for human rights,
gender dimensions, and support for people
living with HIV & AIDS
Concentrated – same as above plus
education tailored to needs of learners who
are particularly vulnerable to HIV including
women and girls
Generalised – all of the above plus
expansion of treatment education including
support for adherence
Comprehensive Education
Sector Responses
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Education sector must begin to
fulfill its potential as lead partner in
national response to HIV and AIDS
No recipe, no “one size fits all”
EDUCAIDS provides a framework to
“set the bar” toward which we
should and can work to support
national responses
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