As an active member of the National AIDS Programme, UNESCO is supporting the efforts of the Ministry of Education, and the civil society organizations, to build institutional capacity to respond to HIV and AIDS and contribute to a comprehensive National Strategy on HIV and AIDS, focused on health education and prevention.
"The aim is to develop and implement comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS in these countries, " says Ulla Kalha, UNESCO's HIV and AIDS coordinator for West and Central Africa.
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Last but not least, to improve the capacity of education systems to respond to and reverse the AIDS epidemic, UNESCO unveiled an important new strategy on HIV and AIDS, stressing the importance of widening access to comprehensive HIV education.
Importantly, abortion and addiction and HIV-AIDS and love are different issues from preventative mastectomy.
One example of this is a forthcoming guide developed by UNESCO on the essential characteristics of efficient and effective HIV and AIDS responses.
This symposium is to review, identify and articulate practices, evidence, opportunities and challenges for HIV and AIDS linkages with school health initiatives.
The guide is designed to explain, in a user-friendly and accessible format, what these essential characteristics are, what they mean in practice, and how they can be applied, integrated and institutionalized into HIV and AIDS planning and programme processes.
Diggs works primarily with black gay, bisexual and transgendered men, a community that is disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. In 2010, the CDC estimated that 72% of new HIV infections in young people were transmitted through same-sex, male sexual activity.
It will also be an opportunity to introduce SERAT, a new tool developed at UNESCO Dakar with support from Headquarters to analyse HIV prevention and sexuality education programmes, to all staff working on HIV and AIDS in the region.
And the prevalence of HIV and Aids in southern Africa is compounding the problem, since the disease is crippling and killing adults of working age in their thousands.
Irina Bokova underscored that UNESCO has been making a strong plea for education to be recognized as the key to reducing poverty, improving child and maternal health, fighting HIV and AIDS, and empowering girls and women.
The meeting also considered how the education sector can provide stronger and more comprehensive responses to HIV and AIDS. Other sessions examined ways of strengthening partnerships among EFA stakeholders, mobilising more resources and improving the effectiveness of aid.
Participants will examine strategies for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of education sector responses to HIV and AIDS through synergies with school health and nutrition programming.
In the wake of Mr Mbeki's shameful and lethal denial of the link between HIV and AIDS, he has overseen the appointment of a sensible new health minister.
Such symposia are held semi-annually in conjunction with the IATT meeting, where UN agencies and international NGOs come together to harmonize and improve the education sector response to HIV and AIDS around the world.
People loved it and it taught a lot of people about HIV and AIDS, especially the youth and of course the women in the rural areas.
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Last month, Malawi's President Bakili Muluzi directed the country's police to arrest prostitutes found loitering on street corners and their clients in an effort to slow down the spread of HIV and Aids.
Much of the fund is destined to be directed to AIDS relief endeavors in sub-Saharan Africa, where millions have been infected by HIV and AIDS. Some of the money would also be applied to efforts to eradicate malaria and tuberculosis.
The Conference is organized by the Association of UNESCO Clubs of Belarus and supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, National HIV and AIDS Prevention Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, UNAIDS and UNESCO Moscow Office.
The International Centre of Research Chantal Biya, in Yaounde, it's an Inter-African and International centre of excellence which has the mission of contributing to the eradication of HIV and Aids infections through scientific research, medical assistance and the diffusion of health information.
As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.
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People living with HIV and AIDS have to endure prejudice born out of ignorance and fear.
People with a weakened immune system due to diseases such as HIV and Aids or cancer.
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Although education alone cannot eliminate HIV and AIDS, it can help limit the spread of the virus.
The Global network of Young TV producers on HIV and AIDS is a a project initiated by UNESCO.
Learning materials about HIV and AIDS give girls and women the knowledge and skills to cope with the pandemic.
This training contributed to the implementation of the UNESCO strategy for journalists in the HIV and AIDS media coverage.
We educate the public about the behaviors that lead to HIV and AIDS and ways to prevent the spread of these diseases.
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