Education & HIV/AIDS
Resource List

This list is a work in progress. Please contribute to our collective knowledge by sending us details of any relevant publication/information. E-mail: info@aidsconsortium.org.uk

(last update September 2007)

Publications:

The abstinence debate: condoms, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and ideology
UK Working Group on Education and HIV/AIDS, June 2007.
Policy & Research: Issue 4. Prepared by Tania Boler and Roger Ingham.
Published by ActionAid International.
This paper was developed on behalf of the Working Group on Education and HIV/AIDS and summarises issues raised by a meeting to discuss the contribution of abstinence-only HIV/AIDS education. Presents the key arguments for and against absinence-only education that were presented at the meeting.

Girl Power:The Impact of girls’ education on HIV and sexual behaviour
ActionAid, 2006. In a systematic review of over 600 pieces of research on girls’ education, sexual behaviour and HIV, ActionAid has shown that secondary education provides African girls with the power to make sexual choices that prevent HIV infection. ActionAid finds that education gives girls power, reduces vulnerability and helps them make more independent, confident choices about their sexual behaviour. The report shows that: Schools and teachers are the most trusted source for young people to learn about HIV, and that school attendance ensures greater understanding of prevention messages. It also strengthens girls’ control, confidence and negotiating abilities to decide if to have sex, and when they do, whether to use a condom. [description taken from publication]

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?

Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education
This 32-page booklet states that when it comes to HIV/AIDS "girls are at greater risk of contracting the disease, bear a disproportionate share of its burden and comprise the majority of new infections globally." This publication represents a project of The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS which provides evidence that links sexual knowledge/behaviour and educational levels among young people. It outlines three priorities that support schools in protecting girls and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS: getting and keeping girls in school; proving life skills-based education; and protecting girls from gender-based school violence. This publication asserts that providing good quality, basic education and skills-based prevention education is fundamental to reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly for girls. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). December 2004, 32 pages, English, French, Spanish.

HIV/AIDS & Education: Life skills-based education for HIV prevention: a critical analysis (PDF file 238KB)
Policy & Research: series 3. Authors: Tania Boler and Peter Aggleton. Save the Children and ActionAid International, 2005. This paper summarises discussions from the third meeting of the UK working group on HIV/AIDS and Education, held 17 May 2004 in London. This publication was based on discussions evoked by presentations from Peter Aggleton, David Clarke and Janet Bujra.

HIV AIDS & Education: Addressing the educational needs of orphans and vulnerable children
Policy & Research: series 2. Authors: Tania Boler and Kate Carroll. Save the Children and ActionAid International, 2004. This paper summarises discussions from the second meeting of the UK working group on HIV/AIDS and Education, held 10 December 2003 in London. This publication was based on discussions evoked by presentations from Simon Gregson, Pat Pridmore, Chris Yates and Katie Webley. Chair: Alan Whiteside.
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Learning to Survive: How Education For All Would Save Millions of Young People from HIV/AIDS
Oxfam International, April 2004

HIV AIDS & Education: Approaches to estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS on teachers (PDF file, 306k)
Policy & Research: series 1. Author: Tania Boler. Save the Children and ActionAid International, 2004. This paper summarises discussions from the first meeting of the UK Working Group on HIV/AIDS and Education, held 17 July 2003 in London. This first publication was based on discussions evoked by presentations from Paul Bennell, Roy Carr-Hill, Anthony Kinghorn and Alan Whiteside.

Teacher Training: Essential for School-Based Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Education - Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
YouthNet, 2004
This 30-page Youth Issues Paper examines the importance of teacher training, the limited evidence in the field, elements of teacher training curricula, teacher selection issues, and issues in Africa including teacher training projects in four countries.

Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs
World Bank and Partnership for Child Development, 2003
Developed in response to requests from educators in affected countries for more information on promising prevention programs already implemented in Africa. Documents 13 education based HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targeting children and youth from 7 sub-Saharan African countries.

The Sound of Silence: Difficulties in communicating on HIV/AIDS in schools
Tania Boler, ActionAid, March 2003
This report explores how HIV/AIDS education is implemented and received by schools in India and Kenya. Through a mixture of quantitative and qualitative approaches, the research catalogues the reported attitudes of 3,706 teachers, pupils, parents and other key stakeholders in the educational community. The report addresses the following four questions:
1. What is the parental and community demand for school?based HIV/AIDS education?
2. What role does the school have in teaching young people about HIV?
3. How is HIV/AIDS education being taught in the classroom?
4. What difficulties exist in successfully delivering school-based HIV/AIDS education?

Synthesis of research into impacts of HIV/AIDS on education and prevention education experience.
Carr-Hill, R.; Katabaro, K.; Katahoire, A; Oulai, D. / International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), 2002
Looks at the impact of HIV/AIDS on the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa, and at ways of bringing effective HIV/AIDS education into schools.

Practical advice for educators on addressing HIV/AIDS prevention
Schenker, I.; Nyirenda, J. / International Bureau of Education (IBE), UNESCO, 2002
Looks at the necessary components of effective education to help prevent HIV/AIDS. The authors argue that the responsibility of schools is to teach young people how to avoid infection and to serve as a catalyst for the development of HIV-related policies.

Poverty, AIDS and children’s schooling: a targeting dilemma
Explores the relationship between orphan status, houshold wealth and child school enrolment using data from 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Martha Ainsworth, World Bank, 2002

An impact evaluation of student teacher training in HIV/AIDS education in Zimbabwe
Evaluation and Program Planning 25: 377-385
T. Chifunyise, H. Benoy and B. Mukiibi, 2002 (UNICEF)
Further Information: Tisa Chifunyise, Save the Children (UK), Email: tisac@scfuk.org.zw

The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa
Centre for International Education, University of Sussex Institute of Education
P. Bennell, K. Hyde and N. Swainson, 2002
Based on the synthesis report of studies of the impact of HIV/AIDS on elementary and secondary education in Botswana, Uganda and Malawi, conducted by the University of Sussex. The complete report can be obtained by contacting Dr. Nicola Swainson and/or Dr. Paul Bennell at: swainson@bennell.u-net.com

HIV/AIDS and Education: A Strategic Approach
Inter Agency Task Team, October 2002

Educational Attainment and HIV-1 infection in developing countries: a systematic review
Hargreaves J. and Glynn J., Tropical Medicine and International Health 7: 489-498. 2002.
HIV/AIDS and Education: A Strategic Approach, An Interagency Strategic Approach
Interagency draft by the World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, WHO, UNESCO and UNAIDS. Contact: Alexandra Draxler, UNESCO/International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) for further information.

Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS in Africa in the Context of EFA
World Bank, 2002
This report describes the first in a series of seminars (held in Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2002) that seek to accelerate the education sector response to HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Preventing HIV/AIDS in Schools
Inon. I. Schenker and Jenny M. Nyirenda, International Academy of Education and the International Bureau of Education, Educational Practices Series-9, 2002

Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope (summary)
Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, 2002

A new challenge: scaling up the educational response to HIV/AIDS
Educational INNOVATION and Information, International Bureau of Education, April 2002

HIV and Education
UNESCO, 2002

UNESCO's plan for addressing HIV/AIDS through education and in educational institutions
UNESCO / International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), 2001
Strategy paper which will guide its actions in the area of HIV/AIDS. It provides an outline of the epidemic's proportions, the need for preventive education and the wider UN strategy for addressing it.

EI/WHO Training and Resource Manual on School Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention
EI/WHO, March 2001

School Education and HIV Control in Sub-Saharan Africa: from discord to harmony?
Gregson s., Waddell H. and Chandiwana S., Journal of International Development 13: 467-485. 2001

HIV/AIDS and the education sector: impact & responses
compiled by Helen Elsey, ActionAid, April 2001
Elimu Summary Papers. To order:
admin@elimu.org (£2.00)

An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Peer Sexual Health Intervention among Secondary School Students in Zambia. 2001
Agha S, PSI research working paper no. 41
Contact generalinfo@psiwash.org for copies