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.This is the dire message of a new World Bank report. And yet a good basic education ranks among the most effective, and cost-effective means of preventing HIV.
According to the new report -- Education and HIV/AIDS: A Window of Hope -- countries urgently need to strengthen their education systems. Education offers a window of hope unlike any other for countries, communities and families to escape the deadly grip of HIV/AIDS.
Vigorous pursuit of the Education for All goals is imperative, along with education aimed at HIV prevention. Education systems that promote a nation's future are being gravely threatened by the epidemic, particularly in areas of high or rising HIV prevalence, the World Bank report warns.
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10-May-2002
