May 7, 2002 — HIV/AIDS kills teachers faster than they can be trained, makes orphans of students, and threatens to derail efforts by highly-infected countries to get all boys and girls into primary school by 2015, a new World Bank report warns. And yet a good basic education ranks among the most effective, and cost-effective means of preventing HIV. Education offers a window of hope unlike any other for countries, communities, and families to escape the deadly grip of HIV/AIDS. For more information, see Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope (1.6MB PDF)
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