The HIV/AIDS and Education section of the School Health Web Site provides information, download documents and links on many aspects of health and nutrition of school-age children. One of the most important areas, that has been increasingly recognized in recent years, is the impact of HIV/AIDS on school-age children and on the Education System in general. Education is one of the most effective preventive approaches against HIV/AIDS and can help ensure that school age children, who have the lowest rates of infection of any age group, can grow up free of infection. The HIV/AIDS and Education section of the School Health web gives access to key documents in this field, including:

• A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes

• Ensuring Education Access for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A training module

• Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope

The site also supports and hosts web pages for the Accelerate Initiative: Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS in Africa. At the request of Ministries of Education in Africa, member agencies of the UNAIDS Interagency Task Team for Education (IATT) established a Working Group to assist countries to ‘Accelerate their Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS’. This is a multi-partner effort, involving countries, development partners, civil society and the private sector.

Key elements of this activity are sub-regional and national workshops that bring together education, health and AIDS teams to share good practices and develop more effective strategies that result in implementation at the school level. The workshops are a point of entry for dialogue to: promote sectoral leadership; identify gaps in knowledge and build capacity; share information and build networks; strengthen stakeholder coordination; and identify new resources for the sector.

The Accelerate Initiate also supports increased information sharing and network building, with Sub-regional networks and websites for HIV/AIDS and Education being developed in West, East, Central and Lusophone Africa.

• A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Concentrated Epidemics and Vulnerable Populations  - A presentation by David Wilson, Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring Team (GAMET) and Global HIV/AIDS Program (GHAP)

• The South African male circumcision trial  recently stopped two years early when the interim analysis showed a 65% protective effect, presentation at the Rio AIDS conference.

• ACTafrica &   Private Sector  Businesses can play a crucial role in confronting this epidemic. This is an epidemic that no global business can afford to ignore

• HIV/AIDS Business Coalitions: Guidelines for Building Business Coalitions against HIV/AIDS - November 2004French, Englishand   Portuguese

• DOES THE PRIVATE SECTOR CARE ABOUT AIDS?Evidence from the Investment Climate Data

• Delilvering Anti-Retroviral Therapy in Resource-Constrained Settings: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda, which documents pioneering work to introduce Anti-Retroviral Therapy into comprehensive HIV programs is intended for governments, development partners and health facilities seeking to integrate ART into existing HIV services in developing country settings.

• This handbook, produced by the World Bank Urban and Global HIV/AIDS programs in collaboration with a number of partners (AMICAALL, UNDP, UN-HABITAT, Urban Management Programme and Cities Alliances), suggests a process and accompanying tools that can support local governments in strengthening and/or developing sustainable responses to HIV/AIDS. Available in English, French, and Portuguese

• Local Government Responses to HIV/AIDS: A Training Toolkit (CD-ROM), adapted from African Local Government Action Forum. For copies of the CD-ROM, please contact Urban Help.

• The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Muncipal Human Resources and Service Delivery. "While the world acknowledges that HIV/AIDS has decimated populations throughout Africa, this awareness has not yet been matched by a comparable grasp of its devastating economic impact on the municipal workplace."

• Health Systems and HIV/AIDS: A Healthy Dependence. Existing health services are failing poor people and AIDS services are no exception.Video Conference of the presentation

• Health Management Information Systems, the Private Sector, and HIV/AIDS: January 18th: Videoconference (8:00 - 10:00 a.m.) & Roundtable Panel (10:30 - 11:30 a.m.) - World Bank

• Dr. Binagwaho spoke about the issues and challenges in harmonizing HIV/AIDS investments in Rwanda. The significant flow of resources and the number of partners involved has underscored the importance of coordination and harmonization of HIV/AIDS funding. Dr. Binagwaho described how the "Three Ones"--- one HIV/AIDS action framework, one national coordinating authority and one monitoring and evaluation system--- are being put in practice on the ground.
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• Interview with Jocelyne O. Do Sacramento, HIV/AIDS & Transport Specialist

• The  Transport  sector is not only vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but it has a significant impact on the trend of the epidemic and may serve as a social vector in the transmission of the disease.

• Mitigating the spread of HIV/AIDS. Transport and social responsibility in the World Bank.

• Lessons Learned to Date from HIV/AIDS Transport Corridor Projects. This paper describes the experiences gained and challenges faced in the preparation of the regional HIV/AIDS project for the Abidjan-Lagos transport corridor. The report also lists other transport corridors around the world where HIV/AIDS interventions are underway, planned, or might be considered.