Welcome to the discussion group on education and HIV and AIDS .

The AIDS epidemic continues to devastate. Treatment is essential for those who are ill. Since for each new treatment available, there are six new infections, the only hope today of getting ahead of the epidemic is prevention. Prevention requires everyone, including young people, to know all the facts and act on them. Knowing, and having and exercising choices about sexual behaviour go together. For prevention education to work, it must be available to everyone, without discrimination.

Schools have a part, although not the only part, in educating young people about HIV transmission and about AIDS. Education personnel, including classroom teachers, face dilemmas concerning education about HIV and AIDS. Are accurate and appropriate materials available? Are teachers equipped and ready to teach them? How can one obtain community agreement of the importance of prevention education? This community offers us the opportunity to exchange ideas and experience, providing a platform to learn from each other and to help the upcoming generations live in a world with AIDS, reducing risk, fear and prejudice.

Join in and tell us what you know, want to know, and want to do!

18 - 20 June 2008 -- Nairobi, Kenya: 3rd National Conference on Peer Education, HIV and AIDS,

Let’s Act Now! addressing the problem of stigma & discrimination in Kenya in detail, seeking to identify tangible solutions through information exchange
Organized by National Organization of Peer Educators (NOPE)

www.nope.or.ke/Conference2008//index.htm

3 - 5 May 2008 -- Moscow, Russia: Second Eastern European and Central Asia AIDS Conference
http://www.eecaac.org/en/index.phtml

3 - 8 August 2008 -- Mexico City, Mexico:  XVII International AIDS Conference,
 www.aids2008.org/mainpage.aspx

8 – 11 December 2008 -- Dakar, Senegal: International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, ICASA 2008
http://www.icasa2008.saafrica.org/ 

EngenderHealth has developed Web-based and CD-ROM self-instructional courses for health care providers, supervisors, students, and trainers around the world—particularly for those in low-resource settings. Each self-instructional course is divided into different modules, each of which includes interactive exercises and quizzes, case studies, as well as educational materials that can be printed for use in health-care programs. Recognizing that internet connectivity is still an issue in most parts of the developing world, EngenderHealth has also made these courses available for offline use: each course can be downloaded for offline reviewing and can also be ordered on CD-ROM.

http://www.engenderhealth.org/res/onc/index.html