Deadly Inertia ? A cross-country study of educational responses to HIV/AIDS

Publisher: Global Campaign for Education, November 2005. Authors: Tanya Boler and Anne Jellema
This cross-country study charts the educational responses to HIV and AIDS in 18 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Key challenges such as the needs of orphans and HIV positive students, impact of HIV on teachers, and improvements to be made in implementing donor funding are highlighted. This report analyses responses to the HIV and AIDS crisis, both by Ministries of Education and civil society groups working on education. It attempts to answer the following three questions: How have civil society organisations working on education responded to the epidemic? What progress have Ministries of Education made in responding to the epidemic? How can the educational response to HIV and AIDS be strengthened and galvanised? The report is split into three chapters. The first chapter describes why educators need to start taking HIV and AIDS seriously; the second gives an overview of policy and programmatic respon