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In turning the tide against HIV/AIDS, education is the key
Joint World Bank, UNESCO, UNAIDS Press release. 18 October 2002.
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With more than 40 million people worldwide now estimated to be infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, UN and World Bank officials warned today that education plans to get 115 million boys and girls into primary school by 2015 needed to be intensified if the world was to have any hope of blunting the spread of the epidemic.
Meeting in Washington, members of the UNAIDS Interagency Task Team on Education released a new action plan-HIV/AIDS and Education: A Strategic Approach-which will help countries fight the spread of HIV/AIDS infection by stepping up their national efforts to achieve the Education For All (EFA) goal of offering a quality primary school education to all children by 2015. The Inter Agency Task Team (IATT) said that with HIV/AIDS killing teachers faster than they could be trained, making orphans of students, and threatening to derail efforts by highly-infected countries to achieve EFA, a new global education strategy was needed to curb further infections. Research shows that a good basic education ranks among the most effective, and cost-effective means of preventing HIV/AIDS.
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